Podium rufipes

Podium rufipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Sphecidae
Genus:	Podium
Species:	P. rufipes
Binomial name
	Podium rufipes; Fabricius, 1804
Synonyms
	Podium denticulatum Smith, 1856 ; Parapodium biguttatum Taschenberg, 1869 ; Podium carolina Rohwer, 1911 ;

Podium rufipes is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae. It has an average length of 19 mm (0.75 in). Its body coloring is black with a tint of blue, and its legs are red with usually at least the basal fourth of the femora black. The females either repurpose an abandoned nest, including that of Sceliphron and wood-boring beetles, or builds a trap nest in wood. Their young are provisioned with paralyzed cockroach nymphs.^[2]

References

^ Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2025). "Podium" (PDF). Catalog of Sphecidae. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
^ Bohart, Richard M.; Menke, Arnold S. (1963). "A Reclassification of the Sphecinae: With a Revision of the Nearctic Species of the Tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini". University of California Publications in Entomology. 30: 91–182.

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[Pulawski-1] Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2025). "Podium" (PDF). Catalog of Sphecidae. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-05-05.

[Bohart1963-2] Bohart, Richard M.; Menke, Arnold S. (1963). "A Reclassification of the Sphecinae: With a Revision of the Nearctic Species of the Tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini". University of California Publications in Entomology. 30: 91–182.

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