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 What Fly is this?
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| valter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 09:07
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 Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
Location: Fortaleza de Sagres, Portugal
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| Kahis |
Posted on 13-10-2007 09:12
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
It's not a fly at all but a bee.
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| valter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 09:16
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
A Bee or a Wasp? A Hoverfly? valter attached the following image:  [130.71Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-10-2007 09:52
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
A wasp.  |
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| valter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 10:22
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
What Kind of Wasp? |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-10-2007 10:27
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
i don?t see the pronotum well here. Sphecidae or Pompilidae (i think the last). |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-10-2007 10:27
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a pompilid (spider-hunting wasp of the family Pompilidae) but i might be wrong - you have many more wasps in the south of Europe. You can easily tell this is a wasp because it has long, segmented antennae and a very narrow waist between the thorax & abdomen. If you could see closer you would also see it has 4 wings (flies have 2) and it has strong, biting mandibles (flies have a proboscis). 
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| valter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 11:50
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
jorgemotalmeida wrote: i don?t see the pronotum well here. Sphecidae or Pompilidae (i think the last). Another photo. valter attached the following image:  [154.34Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-10-2007 12:01
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Pompilinae (subfamily) , I'd say... |
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| valter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 15:31
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
It's a Sphecidae, subfamilly Sphecinae. Prionyx subfuscatus |
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