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Please ID the following image: shot in Jukskei Park, Gauteng province, South Africa.
Quite large specimin, I would estimate 15-18mm, faint blue-ish tinge in the white stripes twards the rear.

thank you
Ivan Andersen

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It's a bee - so moving to the correct forum ;)

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Seems to be a good match to this Cuckoo bee, genus Thyreus
http://www.whatst...uckoo-bee/

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thanks Roger