Dielis plumipes

Dielis plumipes, the feather-legged scoliid wasp, is a species of scoliid wasp in the family Scoliidae.

[1] Females of D. plumipes have a black scutellum and yellow bands on the first three or four tergites.

[1] Males, as in most species of the genus, have yellow bands on the first four tergites and primarily whitish setae on the body.

[2] D. plumipes occurs in the eastern and central United States.

A third subspecies, the nominate D. p. plumipes, occurs in a small pocket along the eastern coast within the Carolinian life zone.