Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Who did the wasp catch?
Posted by prirodnick on 25-02-2021 16:48
#1
Rus, Samara region, 04.09.2020
Thanks!
Posted by libor on 25-02-2021 18:34
#2
If you wish to know, the wasp is Vespula germanica.
Libor
Posted by eklans on 25-02-2021 19:21
#3
and the unhappy prey is a Syrphidae - Syrphus?
Eric
Posted by prirodnick on 25-02-2021 19:31
#4
eklans wrote:
and the unhappy prey is a Syrphidae - Syrphus?
Eric
Thanks Eric!
Posted by Juergen Peters on 25-02-2021 20:27
#5
eklans wrote:
and the unhappy prey is a Syrphidae - Syrphus?
Looks more like
Xanthogramma.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 25-02-2021 20:39
#6
I felt it was closer to
Chrysotoxum elegans (if the wasp has already removed the antennae)
Posted by prirodnick on 26-02-2021 08:05
#7
Tony Irwin wrote:
I felt it was closer to Chrysotoxum elegans (if the wasp has already removed the antennae)
Hi, Tony! Thanks!
Mesopleura, I think, are more like a Chrysotoxum.