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Epistrophe melanostoma ?
Pia
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Posted on 29-01-2010 17:23
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 Hi,

could it be this genus? (yellow antennae, scutellum with yellow hairs)
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 Hello,

I think the kind that's for sure ! However it seems that it is E. it is better to wait for the experts. It's a female !

It is a antennae yellow, scutellum with yellow hairs, hind tarsus yellow. It looks to match!Smile

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 Excuse me I wrote without replay !

I wanted to write and then genus Epistrophe that's for sure.
E. melanostoma I am not sure of myself Frown
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 Thank you, Pierre,

I hope we are right.
Greetings,
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 There seem to be black hairs on the disc of the scutellum. Combined with the rather narrow yellow bands over the tergites, the yellow antennae, the dusting on the frons, I would make this E. nitidicollis.
 
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Posted on 03-02-2010 07:18
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 Hi Andre,

Thank you for your help and explanation.
Yet another picture with the scutellum (yellow hairs?)
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