Beetle and Wasp for ID Please (1 Viewer)

SleepyLizard · Mar 31, 2005

Hi

Does anyone know the ID of these two (to any level).

The first is obviously a wasp but I'm not sure which and the beetle, I think, might be burying beetle, Thanatophilus sinuatus. The wasp was roughly 20 mm and the beetle about 15mm in length. Both are from up here in Ross-Shire.

Any help is much appreciated.

steve_nova · Mar 31, 2005

Hi Alan,

not really much help here but the wasp does have a sawfly look to it which are primitive wasps.

Haven't a clue on the beetle. Perhaps someone more informed will come along....?

SleepyLizard · Apr 1, 2005

Thanks Steve - I think you're right in it being a sawfly of some type.

mothman · Apr 4, 2005

Alan
1.Athalia rosae
2.The shape is more like Oeceoptoma thoracica but I have only ever seen these with dark brown thoraxes, so I will sway towards a round specimen of T. sinuatus.

Colin.

SleepyLizard · Apr 8, 2005

Thanks for your commenst Colin. Much appreciated.

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