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| The_Finn |
Posted on 18-02-2008 18:26
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Member Location: Posts: 3 Joined: 18.02.08 |
Unknown insect in Oravainen,400 km nw of Helsinki, Finland. What do you think? http://www.alltom...?id=291636 First posting, problem with pic! |
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| javanerkelens |
Posted on 18-02-2008 18:52
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 Member Location: Netherlands Posts: 2962 Joined: 18.10.07 |
The picture has to be about 650 pixels and the file's name whitout a enter between the names. At best you give a number...1 or 3 or 45 ...and save than. Succes !! Greatings Joke |
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| Andre |
Posted on 18-02-2008 19:14
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 Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
It is not a Diptera, but a Hymenopera (so this posting is in the wrong forum; even though it's a Diptera-site, Paul has been so good to create another forum here: http://www.dipter...forum_id=6 ). Your pic shows a bee, probably: Andrena cineraria (Apidae). Compare with: http://www.nederl...HCYFAYNPKA (I think biopix shows vaga or another species) Edited by Andre on 18-02-2008 19:26 |
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| The_Finn |
Posted on 18-02-2008 19:46
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Member Location: Posts: 3 Joined: 18.02.08 |
Thanks a lot! |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 18-02-2008 21:00
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
t seems to to me that the cubital cell number one is subdivided... Bombus sp. ? Brush on the tarse! ? cthirion |
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| Christian Schmid-Egger |
Posted on 18-02-2008 21:27
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Member Location: Germany, Berlin Posts: 233 Joined: 05.08.05 |
Never a Bombus. Andre was right with Andrena cineraria, a female. The only species, what can be confused with cineraria, is its sister species, Andrena barbaraea, what occurs in the Alps (and probably also out of it, but the species is badly known). Regards, Christian |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 19-02-2008 00:11
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
Why cubital I is subdivided by a fine vein (Zoom), not a character of Andrena! Proportions of the very broad abdomen at the beginning! Why a russet-red brush (Zoom) on the tarse I internal, at Andrena brushes long on the beginning of the f?mur! For once, I do not understand! 
cthirion |
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| Christian Schmid-Egger |
Posted on 19-02-2008 10:45
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Member Location: Germany, Berlin Posts: 233 Joined: 05.08.05 |
Ok, I agree (I overlooked the detailed version of the photo). It seems to be a Bombus, which is completely worn down, and lost all hairs of gaster. Regards, Christian |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 19-02-2008 11:14
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
Thank you Christ ian, you are stronger than me and usually I recognize the exactitude of your determinations but there really I hesitated!
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| Andre |
Posted on 19-02-2008 12:15
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Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
And so I learn as well... not a hymenopteran specialist at all!  Maybe if The_Finn had mentioned date of the picture, he wouldn't have confused me. Very good and open-minded thinking cthirion  Could be a very old queen then, weakened and about to die very lonely; she's done her work 
Edited by Andre on 19-02-2008 12:18 |
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| The_Finn |
Posted on 19-02-2008 13:33
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Member Location: Posts: 3 Joined: 18.02.08 |
The picture date was 19 august 2006. The fact is that the insect was dying, died about an hour after the pic! |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 25-02-2008 16:16
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
From Pierre Rasmont: In finland, possible Bombus veteranus, form m?lanique in S. or sylvanus ? cthirion |
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