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Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp
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Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp

Chlorion aerarium

Chlorion aerarium, commonly known as the steel-blue cricket hunter, is a species of thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae. It is similar in shape and colour to the blue mud dauber species, Chalybion californicum, which often overlaps in range.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119073.