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Western Red-tailed Spider Wasp
Tachypompilus unicolor
Tachypompilus unicolor, known as the western red-tailed spider wasp or red-tailed spider hunter, is a species of spider wasp from western North America.
From the article Tachypompilus unicolor on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Especially in the subspecies T. u. cerinus, the body is often entirely red, with yellow, dark-margined wings.
Range & habitat
It is found in Southern California, including the northern Baja California and the Channel Islands, north to the Okanagan Valley, southern British Columbia, eastwards through southwestern Idaho to western South Dakota and northern Utah.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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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 147345.