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Synoeca cf. cyanea
A wasp with blue wings.
I foun this specimens in a region of transition between the Cerrado and Atlantic Florest.
Wonderful find! What an amazing nest and a beautiful wasp. Your pictures show the red mandibles very well.
Vespidae, Synoeca sp., quite a painful sting and venom. You have 4 species of Synoeca in Brazil: Cyanea, Surinama, only recently reported Septentrionalis, #4 I cannot remember...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12574057@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80125969@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80125969@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29367844@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47546969@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40754330@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29697818@N0...
Best match: http://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Ins...
http://visualsunlimited.photoshelter.com...
Some more links about Synoeca, agriculture, pain, pests and flies...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118...
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1653/02...
http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Spotted on Nov 15, 2013
Submitted on Nov 16, 2013
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