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 Hermetia illucens(?) from Malaysia
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| orionmystery |
Posted on 22-09-2009 15:36
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Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09 |
Shot this today in a jungle in Malaysia....i checked the gallery and based on its banded eyes, guessing it's a Hermetia illucens(?) click for bigger image  Thanks in advance! |
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| orionmystery |
Posted on 23-09-2009 01:44
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Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09 |
Or is it a sawfly? |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 23-09-2009 08:23
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It certainly looks a bit like Hermetia but it might be a different species (it needs an expert) - it's definitely not Hymenoptera 
Edited by ChrisR on 23-09-2009 08:26 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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