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title: "Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp"
description: "Sceliphron caementarium — Insetos e aranhas. Sceliphron caementarium, also known as the yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp (within the US) or black-waisted mud-dauber wasp (outside of the US), is a species of sphecid wasp."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-legged-mud-dauber-wasp
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp

> Sceliphron caementarium — Insetos e aranhas. Sceliphron caementarium, also known as the yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp (within the US) or black-waisted mud-dauber wasp (outside of the US), is a species of sphecid wasp.

- Scientific name: *Sceliphron caementarium*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `urban` (Cidades e jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 48917
- Wikidata: [Q3951783](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3951783)
- iNaturalist taxon: [121821](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121821)

## Names

- en: Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
- de: Zement-Grabwespe
- es: Avispa de barro de patas amarillas
- fr: Pélopée maçonne

## Countries with the most observations

US (31463), CA (4347), FR (1289), IT (1130), AT (830), MX (688), PT (390), HR (371), CH (363), DE (275), ES (226), HU (175)

## Summary

Sceliphron caementarium, also known as the yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp (within the US) or black-waisted mud-dauber wasp (outside of the US), is a species of sphecid wasp.
There are 33 other species of Sceliphron that occur throughout the world, though in appearance and habits they are quite similar to S. caementarium.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceliphron_caementarium

## Photo

![Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-legged-mud-dauber-wasp/medium.jpg)

Photo: Federico Biguzzi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/284083481

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-legged-mud-dauber-wasp?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).