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Anoplius nigerrimus
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Anoplius nigerrimus

Anoplius nigerrimus is a spider wasp which is one of the commonest Pompilids in Europe. They are mostly black and the females are 6-8 mm long while male's measure 5-8 mm. A distinguishing feature of this species from the related Anoplius concinnus and Anoplius caviventris is that there are 20 hairs visible on the forehead rather than 60 or 45.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127784.