Biology:Sphex lucae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Sphecidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphecinae |
| Genus: | Sphex |
| Species: | S. lucae
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| 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sphex lucae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=770214. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Sphex lucae". https://www.gbif.org/species/1347644. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Sphex lucae species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/118010. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ Pulawski, Wojciech J.. "Catalog of Sphecidae". California Academy of Sciences. https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/projects/catalog-of-sphecidae. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ↑ "Observations" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=121956.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Cazier, Mont A.; Mortenson, Martin A. (January 1965). California Academy of Sciences. "Studies on the Bionomics of Sphecoid Wasps. VI. Fernaldina lucae (Hymenoptera : Sphecidae)". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist (San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society) 41 (1): 34–43. http://archive.org/details/panpacificentom41vand.
- ↑ Fernald, Henry T. (1906). "The digger wasps of North America and the West Indies belonging to the subfamily Chlorioninae" (in en). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Museum. pp. 365–367. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39076000786447?urlappend=%3Bseq=81. Template:PD-inline
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