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Location: Maricao, Puerto Rico
January 27, 2011 11:10 am
I saw this wasp in my home land Puerto Rico (January 2011), which I have never seen it before. Hard to estimate the size since I am going by memory, but it was at least 1 inch.
My best guess from browsing images is a blue mud dauber. Coul you please confirm the ID?
Thanks, Raul
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Spider Wasp
Hi Raul,
We believe this is a Spider Wasp in the family Pompilidae (see BugGuide), but we are unable to find anything online that matches. We did not have much luck finding any references to Wasps from Puerto Rico either. The closest we could find on BugGuide is the genus Entypus, and though we could not find any images, we did find some references that the genus is found in Puerto Rico. We will continue to research this.
Confirmation from Eric Eaton
LOL, Daniel 
Yes, definitely a pompilid, but might even be a Pepsis. …
More later.
Eric
http://bugeric.blogspot.com/
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