, (born 1945) in a September 1982 “Metamagical Themas” column in Scientific American, after a study of the behaviour of sphexidewasps. Sphex is derived from Ancient Greek σφήξ, either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- or a Pre-Greek word.
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