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Sphex   Listen
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Sphex  n.  (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel.
Sphex fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Conops and allied genera. The form of the body is similar to that of a sphex.






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... naturalist as curious and pleasing! (2/8. In a Manuscript in the British Museum by Mr. Abbott, who made his observations in Georgia; see Mr. A. White's paper in the "Annals of Natural History" volume 7 page 472. Lieutenant Hutton has described a sphex with similar habits in India, in the "Journal of the Asiatic Society" volume 1 page 555.) I was much interested one day by watching a deadly contest between a Pepsis and a large spider of the genus Lycosa. The ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin



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