DIGITAL FIELD GUIDE: WASPS (Order: Hymenoptera)
Couplet #17 Entire Key at a Glance
<-- from Key Location 16b
17a: Abdominal rings yellow, wide, and complete; two transverse yellow lines on thorax; two yellow lines on face along inner margin of eyes; yellow shoulder patches.
--> Myzinum sp., female
17b: Abdominal rings pale yellow or whitish, not quite meeting in middle of abdomen; with four yellow spots on thorax.
--> Go to Bicyrtes sp.
17c: Abdominal rings yellow; rather than even rings, pattern is notched and undulating.
--> Go to Glenostictia sp.
17d: Abdominal rings yellow, basal band incomplete, other bands wide and complete; yellow collar and two transverse yellow lines on back.
--> Go to Ectemnius sonorensis
17e: A variety of small, mostly black wasps with yellow abdominal bands and various yellow body marks; abdomen sometimes completely red.
--> Go to Crabronid Group
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