I've found this nest in Burgo de Ebro, Aragon, Spain, in an arid steppe zone dominated by Rosmarinus, Ephedra, Pinus halepensis and Gypsophila hispanica. The nest was big as a ping-pong ball and it have various cells, each one full of parasitic larvae aond only one with the original larvae. Both species for identify. I tried to evolucionate it to see what hymenoptera can emerge, but two or three months after, the larvae die...
Thanks Cthirion... I think that is not Eumenidae... the nest is too big! and various cells... I thinks that is more likely to be a Sphecidae nest. I've found in the same zone a big and beautiful Prionyx viduata. Can be a Prionyx nest?
Yes, can be Meloidae... also Diptera or Hymenoptera... I only have real interest in the big larvae...
I have just received the very sad news that Peter Chandler has died after a fall at home yesterday. I have no other details at the moment. We shall miss him terribly.
Anyone have scans of the Genus Semaranga in:
1)Kanmiya, K. (1983) A systematic study of the Japanese Chloropidae (Diptera).
2) Andersson, H. (1977 Taxonomic and Phylogenetic studies on Chloropid
Dr Michael von Tschirnhaus, a leading expert on Chloropidae and Agromyzidae, died on 16 September 2025 at the age of 86. He will be greatly missed by the international community. R.I.P.
Anyone has the scan of "Harkness, R. D.; Ismay, J. W. 1976: A new species of Trachysiphonella (Dipt., Chloropidae) from Greece, associated with an ant Cataglyphis bicolor (F.) (Hym., Formicidae)
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