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Tarantula Hawk

Pepsis sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Metalic blue body and legs, red antennas, around 7 cm (3 in.) long.

Species ID Suggestions

Tarantula Hawk

Pepsis sp.

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Juan DiTrani
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Comments (2)
Sergio Monteiro
It is very interesting, because "my" wasp is like a mix of both wasps of the links: the blue body of one, and the red antenna of the other.
Rubens Araujo
Asergio, it looks like the following spotting from Rubens Luciano (Spider Wasp): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6936557 http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6464104 (this one has the same antenna color) Rubens
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2011

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