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Vespa social (Social Wasp)

Polybia ignobilis (probably)

2 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Solid Wasp
Synoeca sp. Unknown spotting | Project Noah
AliceGreenup
AliceGreenup 11 years ago
Great black wasp
Sphex pensylvanicus Sphex pensylvanicus


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3 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Sphex pensylvanicus is an US species. I think it is a Synoeca sp.

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Thank you for the try, Alice, but I think John La Salle is right. So, thank you too, John.

John La Salle
John La Salle 11 years ago

Not Sphex or even a Sphecidae.
From the shape of the pronotum and the longitudinally folded wings it is probably in the Vespidae.

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Oct 15, 2012
Submitted on Oct 16, 2012

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