Thread subject: Diptera.info :: beautiful wasp from Spain - genus?

Posted by Norbert on 26-06-2008 07:45
#1

This picture was taken in August 2007 in Gata/Spain a small village in the mountains (Sierra de Gata), The wasp obviously was hatching in a stone wall as she vanished between the same stones for several times.

Could anybody identify genus? I tried in other forums but in vain..

Many thanks;

Norbert

Edited by Norbert on 26-06-2008 07:46

Posted by Isidro on 26-06-2008 09:43
#2

Genus Cryptocheilus... Im'waiting an Id for one of the same genus posted here...

The yours could be comparatus, or maybe spectabilis...

Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 27-06-2008 12:41
#3

Its Cryptocheilus alternatus (=comparatus, =spectabilis), the largest European Pompilidae species.

Regards, Christian