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Ceropales maculata fraterna
About 10 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
This wasp was gleaning sweet exudates from the leaves, stems, and buds of common sunflower (Helianthus anuus) at the edge of a vast open field of degraded shortgrass prairie with yucca, prickly-pear cacti, and scattered elm trees.
These spider wasps are kleptoparasites of other spider wasps.
Spotted on Sep 19, 2012
Submitted on Jan 11, 2014
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