Sphex lucae
Species of wasp
| Sphex lucae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Sphecidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphecinae |
| Genus: | Sphex |
| Species: | S. lucae |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphex lucae de Saussure, 1867 | |
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Sphex lucae is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae.[1][2][3][4] Sphex lucae is predominantly found in western North America,[5] but specimens have also been collected in Georgia and Florida.[6]: 34 Entomologist Henry T. Fernald described this wasp as: "Body rather slender; the head and thorax black; the abdomen black to red, the two colors variously mingled in different examples, the males being generally much darker than the females; wings varying from yellowish hyaline with a fuliginous tinge to deep fuliginous with a violet reflection; legs dark ferruginous to black."[7] Richard M. Bohart and Arnold S. Menke proposed moving this wasp to the monotypic genus Fernaldina.[6] The main body of research on this wasp prior to 1965 regarded its propensity for communal roosting on plants.[6]: 34
References
- ^ a b "Sphex lucae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Sphex lucae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Sphex lucae species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Pulawski, Wojciech J. "Catalog of Sphecidae". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ "Observations". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ a b c Cazier, Mont A.; Mortenson, Martin A. (January 1965). "Studies on the Bionomics of Sphecoid Wasps. VI. Fernaldina lucae (Hymenoptera : Sphecidae)". The Pan-Pacific entomologist. 41 (1). California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society: 34–43 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Fernald, Henry T. (1906). "The digger wasps of North America and the West Indies belonging to the subfamily Chlorioninae". Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Museum. pp. 365–367. No. 1487 – via HathiTrust.
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