Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Md., Va., N. C., Ohio, N. Dak. to Tex. west to B. C., Calif.; Mexico (Durango, San Luis Potosi).
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Cerceris argia Mickel
Cerceris argia Mickel, 1916:412; 1917b:453.—Scullen 1951:1005; 1965a:346, 357–359, figs. 2, 109a, b, c; 1968:158, figs. 5, 6.
TYPE.—The type female of C. argia Mickel, taken at Lincoln, Neb., is at the University of Nebraska.
DISTRIBUTION.—
MEXICO: CHIHUAHUA: 2♀, 9 mi S Hidalgo del Parral, 5200 ft, 26 July 1953, at Asclapias species (UKE). DURANGO: ♀, 8 mi S Canutillo, 9 August 1951 (HEE); 2♀, same locality and same date (PDH). JALISCO: ♀, El Tigre, 18 July 1954 (EIS). NUEVO LEÓN: ♀, Vallecillo, 2–5 July 1951 (PDH).
PREY RECORDS—None.
PLANT RECORDS.—Asclapias species (Chihuahua).
- bibliographic citation
- Scullen, Herman Austin. 1972. "Review of the genus Cerceris Latreille in Mexico and Central America (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-121. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.110
