Psorthaspis planata is a spider-hunting wasp of western North America, mostly commonly observed in the Californias.[1] Prey species include the California trapdoor spider.[2] According to entomologist J. Chester Bradley in 1944, the females of Psorthaspis planata have "the tops of the eyes remote from the top of the head, and the ocelli placed low. The males have purplish tomentum and wholly black wings, like the females."[3]: 52
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Genus: | Psorthaspis |
| Species: | P. planata
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| Psorthaspis planata Fox (1892)
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References
edit- ^ Evans, Howard E.; Evans, Howard E.; Hurd, Paul D. (1954). The genus Psorthaspis on the Mexican central plateau (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). New York: American Museum of Natural History. p. 12.
- ^ Hogue, Charles L.; Hogue, James N. (2015). Insects of the Los Angeles Basin (3rd ed.). Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. p. 388. ISBN 978-0938644-44-6. LCCN 93084264. OCLC 910654655.
- ^ Bradley, J. Chester (1944). "A Preliminary Revision of the Pompilinae (Exclusive of the Tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 70 (1/2): 23–157. ISSN 0002-8320.
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