Ceropales bipunctata bipunctata Say, 1824

Kurczewski, Frank E. & West, Rick C., 2023, Evaluation of North American spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) common names, Insecta Mundi 2023 (989), pp. 1-8 : 3

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8006022

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D08792-D778-FFF8-CECB-8B84FEA6F863

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scientific name

Ceropales bipunctata bipunctata Say
status

 

Ceropales bipunctata bipunctata Say View in CoL (Two speckled cuckoo spider wasp)

Five words is a lengthy common name! Speckled is defined as “covered with many small spots or patches of color.” Ceropales b. bipunctata has a few cream-colored spots or lines on the clypeus and scape and a small spot above the hind coxa ( Townes 1957), but this species is hardly speckled. The most recognizable taxonomic characteristic of C. b. bipunctata is the bright rufous hindfemur ( Fig. 3 View Figures 1–6 ), but there are many other spider wasp species with this characteristic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Ceropales

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