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Phimenes flavopictus
A Singapore Stamp featuring a wasp that looks similar and name it as Delta arcuata. It is simply too complicated for me to distinguish the difference between the two.
Spotted on Aug 10, 2014
Submitted on Aug 10, 2014
7 Comments
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman, thank you. The plant is a White Shrimp Plant (Justicia betonica).
Thanks MarcoSelis
Beautiful picture, Jonathan Hiew, I like the plant it is on. I am sure the ID will be sort it out...eventually....
I am no scientist/scholar. The paper is too complicated to me. I did find another local web that I used as ref material (http://www.natureloveyou.sg/Minibeast-Be...) that says it is P.flavopictus. Thus I will accept P.flavopictus as ID.
Singapore is totally out of the areal of Delta arcuta/Phimenes arcuatus(some authors think that Phimenes has to be included in Delta, other think that are two separated genera), but it's in the areal of P. flavopictus continentalis. In this paper http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid... you find a key for the females and maps of species of Phimenes (the paper is a bit old so Phimenes is still included in Eumenes).
MarcoSells, if you are looking at http://www.vespa-bicolor.net/main/solita... then it might be correct. However, I still stick to D.arcuata as they both looked alike. Even the author says he is surprised that it appears in Singapore. Please do provide better ID reasons.
Phimenes flavopictus continentalis