Anoplius cleora (Banks 1917)

Anoplius (Lophopompilus) cleora (Banks)
Pompilus aethiops Fox, 1893, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., (2)4: 9 (Baja California). —Fox, 1894, ibid., (2)4: 98. — Fox, 1895, ibid., (2)5: 264. Misidentification.
Psammochares cleora Banks, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 61: 108 [Type: 2, California: Los Angeles, 3 May 1915 (M. C. VanDuzee) (MCZ, no. 10, 020)].
Anoplius (Lophopompilus) cleora Evans, 1951, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 76: 218-220.
Female. — Length 13-19 mm. Black, pubescence obscurely reflecting deep bluish; wings fuscous, violaceous. Clypeus with a rather narrow and sharply denned median emargination. MID .58-. 63 X TFD; inner orbits strongly convergent above, UID .72-. 80 X LID; OOL subequal to or slightly greater than POL; third antennal segment subequal to or slightly shorter than UID. Front basitarsus with four strong comb-spines (rarely a small fifth, basal one), the apical one subequal to or slightly shorter than the second tarsal segment.
Male. — Length 9-16 mm. Color of body and wings as in female. Apical margin of clypeus slightly concave. MID .61-. 64 X TFD; UID .85-.95 X LID; front rather flat, less full between the eyes than in aethiops; OOL subequal to or slightly exceeding POL. SGP similar to that of aethiops, but the basal plumose process somewhat longer. Genitalia with the parameres distinctly wider and straighter than in aethiops, with no preapical curvature; parameres strongly setose on ventral surface apically (see fig. 73 in Evans, 1951).
Distribution. — This species occurs transcontinentally in southern Canada and the United States except that it is largely absent in the southeastern states. In Mexico there are only a few records, but the species must be widely distributed in northern Mexico and at higher altitudes south to Jalisco and Puebla. (Map 43.)
Mexican specimens examined. — 5 9 9,4 88. Baja Cali
O Anoplius (Lophopompilus) cleoro (Banks) (also widely distr. in U.S.)
A Anoplius (Anopliodes) bolli Banks
(olso widely distr. in eastern U.S.)
A Anoplius (Anopliodes) varius (Fabricius)
(also occurs in northern S. America)
fornia: 1 2, El Paraiso, May 1889 (C. Haines) [CAS]; 1 S , San Pedro, Dist. Sur, July 1919 (G. F. Ferris) [CIS]; 2 8 2 , La Paz, June [CAS]. Sonora: 1 s , Pitiquito, 4 July 1952 (P. Vaurie) [AMNH]. Jalisco: 3 2 2, Guadalajara, 5000 feet, 12 July 1959 (HEE) [CU, MCZ]. Puebla: 1 2 , 3 mi. NW Petlalcingo, 2 April

Anoplius cleora is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae.