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Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

The Hike Guy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:44 -0000

Thanks, Alex! It does!

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

Alex — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:38:55 -0000

Hey Kolby. Nice pics. As far as I can tell, your ants are:

1: Camponotus rectangularis
2: Acromyrmex octospinosus
3: Pachycondyla villosa
4: Camponotus sp. (this complex of spp. is a taxonomic mess)
5&6: Ectatomma ruidum

Hope this helps,

Alex

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

The Hike Guy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:02:20 -0000

Hi George. Thanks for your help. After comparing online photos with the other photos of this specimen that I took, I'm confident you're right about Dasymutilla pulchra. Thanks!

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

George Waldren — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:23:27 -0000

The velvet ant is in the genus Dasymutilla.

It may possibly be D. pulchra, but I would leave it at genus.

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

John Ascher — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:51:16 -0000

Bee01 is Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille) [sensu lato]

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

Gordon Snelling — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:38 -0000

Ant 5 is an Ectatomma species, perhaps tuberculatum. 6 cant etll based on head shot unless it is the same ant.

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

Kolby — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:53:49 -0000

Hi Boris! Thanks for the note. Isn't bugguide a great resource for entomology lovers?

My next upload will be the beetles I photographed in Nicaragua. Maybe you can help? I'll send you an e-mail when they're posted.

I wish I had better pics of that velvet ant. I couldn't get a good shot of the polka-dotted wasp before it scurried into the brush.

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

Boris Büche — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:18:36 -0000

. . . and bee 02 is a velvet ant (Mutillidae).

Re: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

Boris Büche — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:17:28 -0000

Hi Kolby,
great pics! I noticed them via your post to bugguide (which is for NORTH-American bugs only, b.t.w.).
Can´t help you much - my speciality is beetles / true bugs - just tell you here that your wasp 01 is a fly (Conopidae).

cheers, Boris