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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF10 134 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD8 specimens
01Narrative
Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp, is a species of digger wasp. It lives across most of North America and grows to a size of 20 -. The larvae feed on living insects that the females paralyze and carry to the underground nest.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 pensylvanicus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
Countries2
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type10 134 records
Wild obs. + sensor9 836
Museum / vouchered298
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO23 036 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 accuracy85% within 1 km
≤100 m 5 629≤1 km 1 530≤10 km 412>10 km 828
8 399 georeferenced · 1 437 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor9 836
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 8≤1 km 62≤10 km 83>10 km 4
157 georeferenced · 141 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence298
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 institutions16 of 27 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Champaign, US
89
New Haven, US
31
25
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
23
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
21
University of Guelphlocation not on record
21
Chicago, US
20
Sydney, AU
12
US
11
Toronto, CA
9
University of California, Davis, Bohart Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
5
SOVTlocation not on record
4
University Park, US
4
Philadelphia, US
4
San Diego, US
3
Chicago, US
2
California State Collection of Arthropodslocation not on record
2
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
1
OSUClocation not on record
1
EL PASO, US
1
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
1
Budapest, HU
1
East Lansing, US
1
Saint John, CA
1
CUlocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
1
27 institutions · 296 of 298 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code
