Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
South. Ariz., southwest. Tex.; Mexico (Sonora).
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Cerceris butleri Scullen
Cerceris butleri Scullen, 1965a:346, 363–364, figs. 6, 112a, b, c
TYPE.—The type female, taken 30 miles south of Safford, Ariz., 24 September 1956, on a yellow composite (G. D. Butler), is at the National Museum of Natural History (USNM 66155).
DISTRIBUTION.—Southern Arizona and one record from Alpine, Tex. Specimens from Mexico are as follows:
MEXICO: SONORA: ♀, 10 mi E Navojoa, 13 August 1959 (W. L. Nutting and F. G. Werner); ♀, 38 mi NW Obregon, 100 ft, 23 September 1963 (S and B); ♀, 56 mi S Santa Ana, 1 October 1968 (R. W. and J. T. Thorp). The male is unknown.
PREY RECORD.—None.
PLANT RECORD.—Baccharis glutinosa and Heplopappus hartwegi (Arizona); none from Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- Scullen, Herman Austin. 1972. "Review of the genus Cerceris Latreille in Mexico and Central America (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-121. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.110
