Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stizus continuus ided
Posted by Isidro on 30-07-2007 19:08
#1
22-07-07, "Laguna de La Playa", Monegros region, Aragon, Spain.
Habitat: in the board of a salty marsh with Salicornia ramosissima. Between the salty marsh (now almost dry, full in winter) an the wheat fields. No trees in many km.
Size: Bembex-sized :p (maybe 2 cm)
I can put more pictures (not mine) of the same exemplar...
Thanks in advance
Regards ;)
Edited by Isidro on 31-07-2007 14:14
Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 30-07-2007 19:46
#2
The 'Bembix' (not Bembex) is a true Stizus. Maybe I can identify the photo later with my collection, but more pictures would be welcome (if possible, one from above, to can see tergal bands).
Regards, Christian
Posted by Isidro on 30-07-2007 20:59
#3
Thaks! A friend of mine have reason, then! He said Stizus, and I said Bembex... Stizus won :)
http://www.insect...e_id=13414 Here you cand fins a picture when the tergital bands are better seen.
An din this page http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/categories.php?cat_id=1162 you can find more images of the same, named as "Bembex sp"
I always thinked that was called Bembex and not Bembix...
Thanks again!
Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 30-07-2007 22:45
#4
Its a female of Stizus continuus Klug, a species from the Iberian peninsule and southern France.
Bembex is the old spelling (and therefore used in older books), Bembix the most recent spelling.
Regards, Christian