Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Other insects, spiders, etc.
 Sphex
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| Isidro |
Posted on 07-08-2007 07:24
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
This one was at Salada de la Playa, Monegros region, Aragon, Spain. Habitat: between salty marsh, steppe-lands and wheat fields. Size: about 5 cm. 22-07-2007   What species can be?? Thanks  |
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| Christian Schmid-Egger |
Posted on 07-08-2007 07:37
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Member Location: Germany, Berlin Posts: 233 Joined: 05.08.05 |
It's a female Sphex funerarius or flavipennis. 5 cm is not so probable, large females do reach 34 mm max. Regards, Christian |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 07-08-2007 07:48
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Wow!!!! This is speed!!!! Well, maybe in my imagination the wasp grow very fast  ?How can I distinguish S. funerarios to S. flavipennis? Thaaaaaanks |
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| Christian Schmid-Egger |
Posted on 07-08-2007 18:37
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Member Location: Germany, Berlin Posts: 233 Joined: 05.08.05 |
"?How can I distinguish S. funerarios to S. flavipennis?" Females: By details in pubescence on mesonotum (thorax). S. flavipennis has a more golden and more shiny pubescence, which larger hairs, funerarius is grey with thin haires. Not visible here. Males: by details in structure of antennal segments. The species of Sphex are, against of its size, difficult to identify. Regards, Christian |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:42
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks again Christian! Maybe in this image can be identified? Although I thinks that it can be not the same species... but was in the same place and day http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/details.php?image_id=13256 |
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| Christian Schmid-Egger |
Posted on 11-08-2007 08:14
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Member Location: Germany, Berlin Posts: 233 Joined: 05.08.05 |
The species on http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/details.php?image_id=13256 is the same species group. An identification by photo is not possible, it is difficult enough by dried specimens. Regards, Christian |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 14-08-2007 21:56
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks a lot! Well, I will let as Sphex sp. |
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