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A STUDY OF SPHEX BREVICEPS (SMITH) (HYMENOP.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Charles H. Hicks
Charles H. Hicks
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
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The digger wasp, S. breviceps, has been encountered frequently in the field while studying nesting bees and wasps. Ammophila pruinosa Cress., A. varipes Cress., and A. comanche Cam., according to Professor Fernald, must be considered as synonyms. It is a specics of considerable morphological variation with all intergrades occuring between the extremes. It is not a large insect but it makes up in numbers, it would seem, for what it lacks in individual size.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , March 1933 , pp. 49 - 54
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1933

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page 49 note * Kindly determined by Professor H. T. Fernald.

page 49 note ** Fernald, H. T. “Notes on Some American Sphecinae.” Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 24, pp. 448, 449.

page 52 note * Determined as this species or an unnamed variety very close to it.