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What Fly is this?
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Posted on 13-10-2007 09:07
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 It's not a fly at all but a bee.
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 A Bee or a Wasp?

A Hoverfly?
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 A wasp. Grin
 
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 What Kind of Wasp?
 
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 i don?t see the pronotum well here. Sphecidae or Pompilidae (i think the last).
 
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 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). Smile
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jorgemotalmeida wrote:
i don?t see the pronotum well here. Sphecidae or Pompilidae (i think the last).


Another photo.
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 Pompilinae (subfamily) , I'd say...
 
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 It's a Sphecidae, subfamilly Sphecinae.

Prionyx subfuscatus
 
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