Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp

Chlorion aerarium

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1,397Canada · 34Mexico · 4

Sources and credits

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