broad side of Crabronidae basitarsus
wide side of Crabronidae basitarsus
Illustrating the broad side vs the width of the basitar... Illustrating the broad side vs the width of the basitarsus↰↴
Exception: Crabronidae with very bee-like labrum
Ancyla (Apidae)
Exception: Difficult to tell if hairs are present due t... Exception: Difficult to tell if hairs are present due to the pale coloration
Pararhophites orobinus (Megachilidae)↰↴
Heterogyna
Heterogyna
forewing extending past mesosoma
Handlirschia scol... forewing extending past mesosoma
Handlirschia scoliaclosmis (Crabronidae)↰↴
Heterogyna
Ammophila
anterior head
lateral habitus
female head
male head
Carina is absent.
female mesosoma
female mesosoma
long setae on hind leg
male mesosoma
Hylaeinae (Colletidae)
Crabronidae
male head
female head
Stizoides (Tachystizus) Crabronidae
ventral wings
Colletidae
Andrenidae
Caution: jugal lobe is often folded or crunched
Hylaei... Caution: jugal lobe is often folded or crunched
Hylaeinae (Colletidae)↰↴
Ampulex compressa (Ampulicidae)
Heterogyna (Heterogynaidae)
Heterogyna (Heterogynaidae)
Sphecidae
Eucalyptus carnldulensis (Stenotritidae)
Exception: has two subantennal sutures
Eggs of a species of the tryphonine Netelia (left) comp... Eggs of a species of the tryphonine Netelia (left) compared with that of Westwoodia ruficeps (right)↰↴
pointed
rounded
A great hind leg pollen bucket
Even amount of collecting gear on metasoma and the long... Even amount of collecting gear on metasoma and the long hairs on the hind legs. Still would consider metasomal scopa more important! The leg hairs actally do not carry pollen.↰↴
Typical Megachilidae
Even amount of collecting gear on metasoma and the lon... Even amount of collecting gear on metasoma and the long hairs on the hind legs. Still would consider metasomal scopa more important! The leg hairs actally do not carry pollen.↰↴
Belyta dorsal thorax, anteiror scutellar pit cir... Belyta dorsal thorax, anteiror scutellar pit circled.↰↴
Colletes (Colletidae)
Panurginae (Andrenidae)
Fideliinae
Ctenoplectra
Pygidial plate
Heptascelio sicarius hind coxa
Heptascelio sicarius mid coxa
Exception: Colletidae
Euglossini (Apidae)
Obvious narrowing but is tapering and not cylindrical
Not petiolate