Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

You see, what a catch. Serious specialists and serious publishing houses in our country (!) treat narrowly regional lists with a high degree of skepticism. And they are quite understandable, since such publications confuse rather than explain.

I wish I was an expert on hymenoptera and I was a practitioner. Such a list is necessary, preferably with explanations. Caught a rider or chalcid, identified (let's say correctly), looked in the list, there is a search (catch) further, no-redefine, ask for help and study further… And if it says "often" "rarely", the parasite is that, even better. Kravchenko's article is very good in this regard.
So look at the determinants of the Fauna of Russia.

Colleagues, could you guide me to the literature on Ichneumonidae, Eurytomidae, Pteromalidae, Braconidae, and Eupelmidae of the Moscow region? Should I even search for lists in the Moscow Region? So far, I've only found one job in the field with a list of riders.

I'm sorry, of course, but do you have any idea how many different species we're talking about?
Approximately:
Ichneumonidae ~ 1000
Braconidae ~ 500
Pteromalidae ~ 300
Eurytomidae ~ 100
Eupelmidae ~ 50

No one in their right mind will ever come up with the idea of making lists for these groups in the Moscow region. At the very least, it is the European Part of Russia. See it in the Green Determinant (in Shipunov's Bible)
http://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/sch-ru.htm

Heterarthrus vagans (Fallén, 1808)

Eugene and this is also Heterarthrus vagans?
Moscow on the black poplar.03.07.2012


12.07.2012

Sawfly hatched but I missed it,similar in color and size to the previous one.

Krasnoyarsk. I will suggest that this is the genus Mimesa. The female. A face covered in silvery hairs. At the top of the platypus is a rather deep median notch, on the sides with a pair of denticles. The mandibles are brown towards the top. Neither can I find the apical tubercle on the platypus, perhaps I can not understand what it is in general.The stalk is no longer than the first segment of the abdomen. Without a raised roller on top, not convex, closer to flat. The 1st tergite is dark brown, reddish at the top, and the 2nd tergite is red. The sides of the mesopleura are dotted rather thickly, the scutellum is also in clear points, but more rare, shiny. Legs are brown, legs are dark brown.
The object is small and glistening, it is difficult to achieve good photo quality, perhaps something I missed from the signs
of the DV is more suitable for M. lutaria. perhaps bruxellensis in green, but I understand it is in the European part

Eugene and this is also Heterarthrus vagans?
Moscow on the black poplar.03.07.2012


12.07.2012

Sawfly hatched but I missed it,similar in color and size to the previous one.

maybe one of the elephants like Tachyerges or eardrum. Isn't there a photo of the larva up close?

I'm going out on Mimumesa unicolor female. Surroundings of Krasnoyarsk. 8-9 mm.
There is a thin, slightly raised keel between the eyes. Us. with light vertex segments.
There is an acetabular keel. The pygidial field is wide and dotted. The stalk is equal to the 1st tergite, on top with a raised keel. The crown behind the eyes is densely dotted, with transverse wrinkles.

whether this specimen can be identified as Ectemnius schlettereri male .
8-9 mm. only the 6th part of the mustache with a clipping. the dotted line of the 1st tergite is clear, coarse, and rather thick. The punctuation of the body is rough, very thick. The signs are quite similar to this species, but the whole black abdomen is confusing...





This post was edited by akulich-sibiria - 22.02.2013 18: 01

Dryudella 8-9 mm. Male, hovering between stigma and pinguis. I'm more inclined to the first type. No matter how hard I look, I can't understand the structure of the top of the platband. (it's hard to choose the right angle. the hair gets in the way). It seems to stick out at an angle, but I can't figure out whether pinguis has this shape or not. 6 chl is more than 2 times longer than the width, this is a sign of stigma... ???

according to the latter view, the top of the platband is narrowed by an angle, pointed forward and slightly bent up

maybe one of the elephants like Tachyerges or eardrum. Isn't there a photo of the larva up close?

This is an obstacle.
Sawfly hatched but I missed it,similar in color and size to the previous one.

The post was edited by Gennadich - 02/23/2013 19: 13

24.06.2012
Manyukhino village, Mytischinsky district, Moscow region

Dolichovespula sylvestris?
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24.06.2012
Manyukhino village, Mytischinsky district, Moscow region

Dolichovespula sylvestris?

Unfortunately, the quality of images (especially sharpness) has failed.
But in my opinion, it looks more like Dolichovespula media.

The first two, if I'm not mistaken, are Parnopes grandior (Pallas, 1771)
Please help me with the second blestyanka, if the quality of the photo allows it.

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Help with the definition, please. An individual from Vladikavkaz. I don't know the size.

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Thanks for your help with the previous one. I didn't do anything with Photoshop. As soon as I received the photo, I put it up. Who's that?" Photo from Vladikavkaz.

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It seems to be males...

how do you determine gender?

how do you determine gender?

In many (not all) cases, this is not so difficult. In this particular case-by the width of the segments of the hind legs and the length of the antennae.

This post was edited by AVA - 26.02.2013 09: 29

Thanks for your help with the previous one. I didn't do anything with Photoshop. As soon as I received the photo, I put it up. Who's that?" Photo from Vladikavkaz.

Female road wasp (Pompilidae). It is difficult to determine exactly even the genus, although it is very similar to someone from Anoplius.

Dryudella 8-9 mm. Male, hovering between stigma and pinguis. I'm more inclined to the first type. No matter how hard I look, I can't understand the structure of the top of the platband. (it's hard to choose the right angle. the hair gets in the way). It seems to stick out at an angle, but I can't figure out whether pinguis has this shape or not. 6 chl is more than 2 times longer than the width, this is a sign of stigma... ???

This is D. stigma

Thank you Alexander. But what about the other two?
Yevgeny

I met a cute wasp in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in December. Maybe someone knows the family? Thank you.

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2. And there are a lot of these wasps in Phuket and Phi Phi (Thailand).

I met a cute wasp in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in December. Maybe someone knows the family? Thank you.

Up to the family without problems - fold-winged wasps-Vespidae.
But the pictures show different wasps:
1 - female from the genus Ropalidia (Polistinae)
2-a solitary bird of the genus Delta (Eumeninae)

Getting to the view is almost impossible. The groups are quite numerous, with many similar-looking species, and the images are not very informative for accurate identification.

This post was edited by AVA - 27.02.2013 09: 34

Thank you Alexander. But what about the other two?
Evgeniy

If I have some time , I'll try to figure it out.

Unfortunately, the quality of images (especially sharpness) has failed.
But in my opinion, it's more like Dolichovespula media.

Thank
you, it's not sharpness, it's a camera, for some reason it focuses in daylight where it pleases, it looks normal on the screen, but when you throw it on the computer, alas
With Dolichovespula media it is very interesting, I looked in the Net there are photos with this color, I have everything with orange triangles on my shoulders, they rarely come across mostly they fly to the light, I need to look in the bins maybe I will find such. I even accidentally took a picture of her, but she asked, thought vulgaris and did not become a brother

Thank
you, it's not sharpness, it's a camera, for some reason it focuses in daylight where it pleases, it looks normal on the screen, but when you throw it on the computer, alas
With Dolichovespula media it is very interesting, I looked in the Net there are photos with this color, I have everything with orange triangles on my shoulders, they rarely come across mostly they fly to the light, I need to look in the bins maybe I will find such. I took a picture of her by accident, but she asked for it, Vulgaris thought, and didn't take it

By the way, D. sylvestris does not have such dark legs. As for the rest of the color, it "walks" in a very large range.

With Dolichovespula media is very interesting, I looked in the Net across photos with this color, I have all with orange triangles on the shoulders

I had the first batch of workers who came out of the nest that I observed so dark. The subsequent ones had a more developed yellow pattern, while the orange triangles were found only in sexual females.

Good afternoon! please tell me, what kind of wasp is this? From the hourglass? Filmed in Zaporizhia region on July 17, 2011.

Good afternoon! please tell me, what kind of wasp is this? From the hourglass? Filmed in Zaporizhia region on July 17, 2011.

Female Cerceris interrupta (Crabronidae, Philanthinae)

Female Cerceris interrupta (Crabronidae, Philanthinae)

Thank you very much! I couldn't tell for more than a year, just up to my family. And you even gave me a look, hooray!

Hello, help with the definition.
I caught them using window traps on a pine burn.
Komi Republic, Kortkeros district

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Good afternoon, dear colleagues! I flipped through the topic and found that most of the sawflies remained undefined, so I decided to make a small "revision" of what had accumulated. Of course, basically the process of determining this group from photos is similar to the game " and I'll guess the melody with...", but still.
I myself have been "entering" them for the fourth year (and I still haven't really entered them, some points are too complicated), and I have now started writing my dissertation. If you have any questions, please contact us and I'll try to answer them...
Names in the file names, numbers indicate the pages where the photos were posted (although, in my opinion, I still got lost somewhere, but I think the authors will recognize their photos). I didn't read much into the text, so if some photos were already correctly identified, I think it's okay.
So:
Diprionidae: (I'm not sure about the first one, but I think the female is some kind of Gilpinia)

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Siricidae:

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Cephidae: (Calameuta filiformis in the second photo is the one that is sideways, and someone's ass is also one of them)

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Cimbex femoratus-the species is very variable in color, can be black, yellow, except that I have not yet seen blue ones... Speckled, striped, chamomile, etc., but at least European C. femoratus can be more or less accurately identified by the dark edging on the fore and hind wings (provided that there is no confusion between the genera Cimbex and Trichiosoma). Similar edging is also rare in C. connatus.
In the last photo, one of the color forms is still the same femorata; on the D. V. there is a very similar C. connatus color form.

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On the first: central - male and female C. femoratus
On the sides of Trichiosoma sp., I will not say from the photo, but it resembles T. aenescens

On the second: Cimbex (most likely) luteus on the left, and C on the right. femoratus

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Trichiosoma: it is impossible to determine the exact species from the photo, but the last four probably belong to Trichiosoma vitellina, at least in Siberia it is the most numerous of similar species.

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Megalodontisidae: the genus Megalodontes

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As for tentredinids, here the definition from the photo = fortune telling on coffee grounds. Intraspecific variability in representatives of this family is such that one species smoothly "flows" into the second, the second into the third, etc. and it is not always possible to correctly set the boundaries between them (the same can be said about representatives of other families, for example, about species of the genus Arge, Cephus, and then there is a long list...) I am not always able to identify either species or genera of Tentredenidae (in particularly interesting cases, subfamilies) even from a series of specimens, and I am somewhat surprised at how boldly some species are signed here. So below is just what I'm sure of...

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Tenthredo (where it is signed before the view, please take it as "most likely")

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