Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sphex
Posted by Isidro on 07-08-2007 08:24
#1
This one was at Salada de la Playa, Monegros region, Aragon, Spain. Habitat: between salty marsh, steppe-lands and wheat fields. Size: about 5 cm. 22-07-2007
What species can be??
Thanks ;)
Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 07-08-2007 08:37
#2
It's a female Sphex funerarius or flavipennis. 5 cm is not so probable, large females do reach 34 mm max.
Regards, Christian
Posted by Isidro on 07-08-2007 08:48
#3
Wow!!!! This is speed!!!!
Well, maybe in my imagination the wasp grow very fast :)
?How can I distinguish S. funerarios to S. flavipennis?
Thaaaaaanks ;)
Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 07-08-2007 19:37
#4
"?How can I distinguish S. funerarios to S. flavipennis?"
Females: By details in pubescence on mesonotum (thorax). S. flavipennis has a more golden and more shiny pubescence, which larger hairs, funerarius is grey with thin haires. Not visible here.
Males: by details in structure of antennal segments.
The species of Sphex are, against of its size, difficult to identify.
Regards, Christian
Posted by Isidro on 08-08-2007 15:42
#5
Thanks again Christian!
Maybe in this image can be identified? Although I thinks that it can be not the same species... but was in the same place and day
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/details.php?image_id=13256
Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 11-08-2007 09:14
#6
The species on http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/details.php?image_id=13256 is the same species group. An identification by photo is not possible, it is difficult enough by dried specimens.
Regards, Christian
Posted by Isidro on 14-08-2007 22:56
#7
Thanks a lot!
Well, I will let as Sphex sp. ;)