Sphex dorsalis

Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Sphecidae/Sphex

At a glance

Occurrence records599

Data sources6

Biological traits0

DNA specimens8

eDNA detections1

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Sphex dorsalis's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility599 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF599 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD8 specimens

01Narrative

Sphex dorsalis is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae. It is found from the southern United States south to Mexico, Central America, and South America. Both the male and female Sphex dorsalis average around 19 mm in length.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding8 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Sphex dorsalis has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens8

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type599 records

Wild obs. + sensor406

Museum / vouchered193

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 520 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy88% within 1 km

≤100 m 206≤1 km 81≤10 km 18>10 km 23

328 georeferenced · 78 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor406

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy5% within 1 km

≤1 km 3≤10 km 51>10 km 4

58 georeferenced · 135 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence193

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions5 of 16 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record	84
Mayagüez, PR	26
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobagolocation not on record	25
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	21
University of Central Floridalocation not on record	9
California State Collection of Arthropodslocation not on record	5
US	4
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Ricalocation not on record	4
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record	4
San Diego, US	3
Philadelphia, US	2
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record	2
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record	1
Universidad del Magdalena (UniMagdalena)location not on record	1
Lake Placid, US	1
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record	1

16 institutions · 193 of 193 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Sphex dorsalis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median24.2 °C 24.2–24.2

Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.50 °C

Max temp (day)28.4 °C

Min temp (night)20.8 °C

Precipitation20.6 mm/mo

Air humidity61.3 %

Moisture balance-133 mm/mo

Vapour deficit1,171 Pa

Wind speed6.30 m/s

Cloud cover15.1 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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