''Sphex jamaicensis'' is a species of
thread-waisted wasp in the family
Sphecidae
The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps.
The name Sphecidae was formerly given to a much larger grouping of wasps. This was found to be p ...
.
[ It is found in Florida, Cuba (including ]Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (; en, Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Islan ...
), The Bahamas, and Jamaica.[
ITIS Taxonomic notes:
*''Sphex jamaicensis'' (Drury, 1773) (originally in Vespa) is apparently a senior secondary homonym of ''Sphex jamaicensis'' Fabricius, 1775 (though these two have apparently never been treated as congeneric).][
*''Sphex jamaicensis'' Fabricius, 1775 is apparently a junior secondary homonym of ''Sphex jamaicensis'' (Drury, 1773) (originally in Vespa) (though these two have apparently never been treated as congeneric).][
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Sphecidae
Insects described in 1773
Taxa named by Dru Drury
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Hymenoptera of North America
Insects of the Caribbean