Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

3 exactly from the genus of Eumenes, something is difficult for me according to the determinants. Many contradictions arise in the Far East and the European part.

For me, the family is also very difficult to define. The" green " determinant is extremely unsatisfactory, and there is nothing else to determine by European ones.
I've even stopped collecting eumenin - I still can't figure it out.

Well, I don't have much of this genus, I think there are 3-4 species in total, sometimes it's more difficult to understand Ancistrocerus varies very much in color and sometimes I don't understand the signs.

1. Male bee of the genus Nomada sp. (Apidae, Nomadinae)
2. Male fold-winged wasp Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) (Vespidae, Polistinae)
3. Male fold-winged wasp Eumenes sp. (Vespidae, Eumeninae)
4. Male fold-winged wasp Polistes gallicus (Linnaeus, 1767) (Vespidae, Polistinae)
5. Female bee Hylaeus so. (Fpidae, Colletinae)
6. Male burrowing wasp Larra anathema (Rossi, 1790) (Crabronidae, Crabroninae)
7. Female burrowing wasp Bembix sp. (Crabrinidae, Bembicinae)

There is simply not enough information to determine up to type # 1, 3, 5, and 7.

1. Male bee of the genus Nomada sp. (Apidae, Nomadinae)
5. Female bee Hylaeus so. (Fpidae, Colletinae)

It seems that Apoidea, Colletidae were adopted quite recently?
I missed the moment when the Colletidae family was relegated to a subfamily.

A bee from the genus Hylaeus (in the" green " definition, this is the genus Prosopis). The Colletidae Family is
like a female. Before the species, this genus is unlikely from the photo.

You get them early. We have a summer birth, they fly from the second decade of June.

Yes, there were some in May, but not a lot (you can say I saw them only once or twice), and I didn't see them in the summer.

By the way, the" green "determinant is the" determinant of insects of the European part of the USSR " of the 70s?

1. Male bee of the genus Nomada sp. (Apidae, Nomadinae)

Alternatively, maybe Nomada goodeniana (Kirby, 1802)?

Yes, there were some in May, but not a lot (you can say I saw them only once or twice), and I didn't see them in the summer.

By the way, the" green "determinant is the" determinant of insects of the European part of the USSR " of the 70s?

Yes, you are right about the "green" determinant.

In June and July, there are a lot of representatives of this genus even in our north. They are often found on flowers such as chamomile, nivyannika, a lot happens in flower beds with marigolds. But flowers with long corollas such as legumes or labial flowers are not visited - they have a short proboscis.

1. Male bee of the genus Nomada sp. (Apidae, Nomadinae)
2. Male fold-winged wasp Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) (Vespidae, Polistinae)
3. Male fold-winged wasp Eumenes sp. (Vespidae, Eumeninae)
4. Male fold-winged wasp Polistes gallicus (Linnaeus, 1767) (Vespidae, Polistinae)
5. Female bee Hylaeus so. (Fpidae, Colletinae)
6. Male burrowing wasp Larra anathema (Rossi, 1790) (Crabronidae, Crabroninae)
7. Female burrowing wasp Bembix sp. (Crabrinidae, Bembicinae)

There is simply not enough information to determine up to type # 1, 3, 5, and 7.

Thanks!
What other information is needed? If the photo is from below, then this, of course, is not..

  
6. Male burrowing wasp Larra anathema (Rossi, 1790) (Crabronidae, Crabroninae)

Bliiiin! Wow - Larra anathema didn't identify it from the photo...
Impaled immediately different, but the photo does not understand....

Hello! Is it possible to identify a species (a wasp with a bumblebee) from such unimportant photos? Southern Urals, mixed forest, autumn, in the podmore in hollows with bees. Photo 3-rider?(please tell me before the family), in the same place, its length is 4-6 mm .

It seems that Apoidea, Colletidae were adopted quite recently?
I missed the moment when the Colletidae family was relegated to a subfamily.

Well, how important is the taxonomy of higher taxa of hymenoptera for you? I don't know. From the standpoint of modern approaches (phylogenetics, cladistics, molecular systematics), all bees and so-called burrowing wasps (in a broad sense) form a monophyletic group of the rank of superfamily, which is called Apoidea.
In turn, burrowing wasps are divided into 4 families: Heterogynaidae, Ampulicidae, Sphecidae и Crabronidae. At the same time, all (!) bees form a single family Apidae.
This point of view is now supported by the overwhelming majority of sphecidologists, while apidologists have turned out to be more conservative and prefer to adhere to the positions of their guru, Charles Michener, who divides bees into more or less familiar families. This position is reflected in his fundamental work:
Michener C.D. 2000. The Bees of theWorld. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 913p.
However, later researchers point out its inconsistency with cladistic schemes:
Melo G.A.R., Goncalves R.B. 2005. Higher-level bee classifications (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae sensu lato). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 22 (1): 153–159.
According to the latest work, all bees should be considered as part of a taxon that is a sister group to the Crabronidae family and, accordingly, is equal to it in taxonomic level, i.e., in the Apidae family. In this family, all Michener taxa seem to be downgraded by a step in rank. Specifically, the genus Hylaeus is assigned to the subfamily Colletinae, tribe Hylaeini.

Hello! Is it possible to identify a species (a wasp with a bumblebee) from such unimportant photos? Southern Urals, mixed forest, autumn, in the podmore in hollows with bees. Photo 3-rider?(please tell me before the family), in the same place, its length is 4-6 mm. [attachmentid ()=103005][attachmentid()=103006][attachmentid ()=103007]

Almost 100% of the wasp is a working specimen of Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758).
Bumblebee is almost impossible – there is too little information about the structure of the head and the color of the hairs of the head and chest. You can't even specify the exact gender.
With the rider, it's a little easier – the Braconidae family, but nothing more.

Well, how important is the taxonomy of higher taxa of hymenoptera for you? I don't know. From the standpoint of modern approaches (phylogenetics, cladistics, molecular systematics), all bees and so-called burrowing wasps (in a broad sense) form a monophyletic group of the rank of superfamily, which is called Apoidea.
In turn, burrowing wasps are divided into 4 families: Heterogynaidae, Ampulicidae, Sphecidae и Crabronidae. At the same time, all (!) bees form a single family Apidae.
This point of view is now supported by the overwhelming majority of sphecidologists, while apidologists have turned out to be more conservative and prefer to adhere to the positions of their guru, Charles Michener, who divides bees into more or less familiar families. This position is reflected in his fundamental work:
Michener C.D. 2000. The Bees of theWorld. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 913p.
However, later researchers point out its inconsistency with cladistic schemes:
Melo G.A.R., Goncalves R.B. 2005. Higher-level bee classifications (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae sensu lato). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 22 (1): 153–159.
According to the latest work, all bees should be considered as part of a taxon that is a sister group to the Crabronidae family and, accordingly, is equal to it in taxonomic level, i.e., in the Apidae family. In this family, all Michener taxa seem to be downgraded by a step in rank. Specifically, the genus Hylaeus is assigned to the subfamily Colletinae, tribe Hylaeini.

Damn, I'm so fucked up. I just started to get used to the fact that Sphecidae are divided into several families, so now all the bees are united in one family...
I want to write correctly...
Alexander, what do you think about the version that Nomada from the photo is Nomada goodeniana (Kirby, 1802)?

Thanks!
What other information is needed? If the photo is from below, then this, of course, is not..

Bees (especially Nomada) are generally difficult to work with based on photos. Even with a mounted instance, it is not always possible to quickly identify it.
Reliable determination of Eumenes (No. 3) requires data on pubescence of the lower part of the head, propleura, and 1-2 abdominal tergites.
To determine Bembix (No. 7), we need data on the structure of the face and crown, as well as on the punctuation of abdominal sternites. And so (from the drawing of the abdomen) we can only say that it is not B. rostrata, not B. bidentata and not B. olivacea.

Damn, I'm so fucked up. I just started to get used to the fact that Sphecidae are divided into several families, so now all the bees are united in one family...
I want to write correctly...
Alexander, what do you think about the version that Nomada from the photo is Nomada goodeniana (Kirby, 1802)?

I'm really sorry, but I can't help you. I'm just not an expert in this group and I only know one real expert - Waldemar Celari from Poland. As the saying goes, you can't embrace the vast. And Nomada is a truly vast genus.

As for the correct spelling, the system of higher taxa is a very unstable issue, and some researchers still write about the family Sphecidae in the "old" sense. And once it was divided into almost a dozen families. And about two years ago, we conducted a molecular study and came to the conclusion that Heterogynaidae should not be located at the base of the tree of "apoid wasps", but almost inside Crabronidae... By the way, quite a reasonable opinion.

thank you Andrey, I will do some work on mistakes at home, as they did at school-you will write a word 100 times, like I remembered it ))

By the way, please note that the generic name Bembix is a feminine noun. Accordingly, the specific end names must be consistent, i.e. Bembix rostrat a

regarding the last bumblebee, look at belonging to Bombus consobrinus Dahl or modestus in color are similar, but this is a finger in the sky. )))
know at least the length of the cheeks and the hairs on the abdomen on the last tergites

This post was edited by akulich-sibiria - 12/21/2010 14: 15

Bees (especially Nomada) are generally difficult to work with based on photos. Even with a mounted instance, it is not always possible to quickly identify it.
Reliable determination of Eumenes (No. 3) requires data on pubescence of the lower part of the head, propleura, and 1-2 abdominal tergites.
To determine Bembix (No. 7), we need data on the structure of the face and crown, as well as on the punctuation of abdominal sternites. And so (according to the drawing of the abdomen) we can only say that it is not B. rostrata, not B. bidentata and not B. olivacea.

Mon...
Well, thanks for the information!
I don't collect a collection at all, I take pictures of "live" - and they are usually, as a rule, not given in my hands, so that you can shoot from all sides.
In general, very agile creatures, to get at least one angle clearly, you need to try very hard.

I'm really sorry, but I can't help you. I'm just not an expert in this group and I only know one real expert - Waldemar Celari from Poland. As the saying goes, you can't embrace the vast. And Nomada is a truly vast genus.

That yes. I collect nomads exclusively from the European part of the former USSR, put a lot of time and effort on them, but still have more questions than answers.

Help me determine it. Body size 2.5 cm, wing length 2.5 cm. Namibia.

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Help me determine it. Body size 2.5 cm, wing length 2.5 cm. Namibia.

The road wasp is a member of the Pompilidae family. It looks like a male. Unfortunately, the structure of the 2nd sternite of the abdomen and hind legs is not visible (necessary for determining the subfamily), as well as the venation of the wings (often necessary for determining genera and even species).
In general, it is similar to Pepsinae, but in the tropics and among Pompilinae there are equally dark representatives.

You know! I highly suspect it is Anoplius (Notiochares) and very similar to amethistinus F. I worked with them in Zina. Really not much is clear from the photo. Purely externally very similar to it

Good evening! Does anyone know anything about leafcutters and andras? Nos. 1 and 2 were some of the earliest species we had this spring, and with the onset of summer, they disappeared completely. Here's a photo:

1

Posted on 30.04.2010 11:29:10 AM

2A

2B

Taken on 06.05.2010 14: 35: 43

3A

3B

Taken on 19.09.2010 13: 40: 42

4

Taken on: 11.08.2010 10: 43: 10

5

Taken on 11.08.2010 10:46:30 AM

6

Taken on 11.08.2010 10:48:51 AM

Thank you all in advance for your help!

Of course, all of them are from the Rostov region!

Good evening! Does anyone know anything about leafcutters and andras? Nos. 1 and 2 were some of the earliest species we had this spring, and with the onset of summer, they disappeared completely. Here's a photo:

Thank you all in advance for your help!

1 Osmia sp.
2 Anthophora sp., female
3 Melecta luctuosa, female
4 Megachile sp., female
5 Megachile sp., male

I pass to the view from the photo. I don't know much about photos at all. Having copies in hand, I would have determined up to the type...

I completely agree with Alex on the photo, especially on one general picture. If there were photos of individual body parts, then you can still, although the same genus Megachile is complex and with a copy in your hand. Although I think proffi on them and easily determine at a glance. Wait AVA he's kind of snapping nuts at them

By the way, I went through everything on my bee, here as it showed. Alex, maybe you'll have some thoughts on this beast. Chalicodoma now seems to be part of Megachile, I looked at the green with a stretch, I immediately go to desertorum F. Mor. , according to the color of the legs. BUT it says that Kazakhstan, Mongolia..mine was caught in a forest area on the border of the Kemerovo region and Khakassia. Let's just say in the highlands

[quote=akulich-sibiria,23.12.2010 15:18]

  

4 - female Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

I was confused by one point-Megachile centuncularis has reddish pubescence on the sixth stubble, and in the photo there seem to be black hairs...
Well, I don't know how to use photos...

I was confused by one point-Megachile centuncularis has reddish pubescence on the sixth stubble, and in the photo there seem to be black hairs...
Well, I don't know how to use photos...

I told you I was almost there... In fact, in this species, the color of the brush varies from red to red, but on the last stubble on the sides there are always black hairs. To be sure, it would be good to see the abdomen from below, and even know the size...

I told you I was almost there... In fact, in this species, the color of the brush varies from red to red, but on the last stubble on the sides there are always black hairs. To be sure, it would be good to see the abdomen from below, and even know the size...

Yes, I looked up my fees. Very similar. There are black hairs on the sides and if you look from the same angle as in the photo, it is very similar.

what thread on my bee can I say??

what thread on my bee can I say??

Something...
First, halicodomus is not considered by all apidologists to be a subgenus of megachila. They are often considered an independent genus.
Second, desertorum is known not only from Kazakhstan or Mongolia, but also from Tuva, Buryatia, and eastern China.
So maybe you didn't make a mistake with the definition.

[quote=AVA, 23.12.2010 17: 21] I completely agree with Alex, on the photo, especially on one general picture. If there were photos of individual body parts, then you can still, although the same genus Megachile is complex and with a copy in your hand. Although I think proffi on them and easily determine at a glance. Wait AVA he's kind of snapping nuts at them

Well, not exactly "like nuts", but popovodu two females almost certainly:

4-female Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
6-female Megachile rotundata (Fabricius, 1787)

With the male (#5) it is more difficult, because, indeed, some parts of the body are needed (especially the head and antennae).
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I looked through all the photos...
I don't have No. 5 on the side of my head, unfortunately. Well, I'll definitely catch up with him next summer!

Thank you all for your help!

Well, I was advised to dig into these births by Timofey Levchenko. He just told us that some combine these genera

well, then maybe there will be more options for this animal
, the female of this species was caught in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Unfortunately, there is no exact label. I think something is banal, but I could not understand what kind of view it is. 10-11 mm.
Head. The hair is light, slightly pressed, wavy.
The base of the platbands is more often dotted, shagreen, at the top slightly glistening, in rare large points.
The upper lip is narrowed, notched at the apex and thickened at this point.
Whiskers are red below, almost completely yellow-red at the top. The eye grooves are very wide and long.
Srednespinka. The hairs are thick yellow-white. Shagreen with infrequent points. The shield in the center is shiny, not dotted.
The hind legs are reddish, the base is darkened. The hairs are light yellow.
the gap. the segment is in the hairs, the median field is not rough.
The abdomen. 1-3 th tergites are red. 2-4 tergites with wide unbroken bandages, strongly shagged, hardly noticeable points. Anal fringe is red.
Something about chrysopus and azerbaidshanica

Something...
First, halicodomus is not considered by all apidologists to be a subgenus of megachila. They are often considered an independent genus.
Second, desertorum is known not only from Kazakhstan or Mongolia, but also from Tuva, Buryatia, and eastern China.
So maybe you didn't make a mistake with the definition.

Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tuva, but still confined to the steppe landscape...I just doubt that the biotopes are similar to the high-altitude taiga of the Kemerovo-Khakassia border, but for now I will focus on this particular species, thank you

A purely practical question for Alexander Antropov (AVA).
In view of the well-known problem with the quality and availability of qualifiers by phone, I would like to know what literature you used to determine in the process of your scientific growing up and what you use now (or is everything already automatic? ). Let's just take the Central Russian fauna of your profile.

A purely practical question for Alexander Antropov (AVA).
In view of the well-known problem with the quality and availability of qualifiers by phone, I would like to know what literature you used to determine in the process of your scientific growing up and what you use now (or is everything already automatic? ). Let's just take the Central Russian fauna of your profile.


To be honest, at the time of my "scientific growing up", there were no less problems with determinants. Especially with publications in Russian. Naturally, the first was the Plavilshchikov determinant (now it is mainly of bibliographic value), then "green", European fauna. As a matter of fact, so far the latter is the only more or less complete determinant covering the European fauna of Russia. Just always remember that it was published in 1978, and prepared even earlier. In addition, due to the absence of Russian specialists in many groups during the preparation of the manuscript, it was mostly compiled by Wojciech Pulawski, often based on much earlier publications. Accordingly, many of the tables included in it were "outdated" even before its publication. This should be understood in the sense that the keys work, although incomplete, but the names require mandatory verification, since incorrect spellings, synonyms, etc. are often found, not to mention recent taxonomic changes.

Since I myself have a narrow interest in the systematics of burrowing wasps (Sphecidae s. l.), the works of V. Gussakovsky, V. Marshakov, and V. Kazenas were first useful to me. A little later, P. Nemkov (Bembicinae) and E. Budris (Pemphredoninae) began to work on the same family. Nemkov, Kazenas, Budris and I were directly involved in the preparation of more "fresh" keys of the "Determinant of the Far East" (taking into account the region, of course).

Currently, I mostly use my own research on "my" groups (Crabronidae: Pemphredonini, Trypoxylini, Oxybelini, Crabronini; Vespidae: Vespinae) in the volume of at least the Old World.

Fortunately, now on the Internet you can find a huge number of posted publications on various groups and issues. For obvious copyright-related reasons, the most "recent" monographic publications are either unavailable online or available only in viewing mode.

From online resources, I can first of all recommend the following sites that deal with more or less general issues::

Common:
http://www.faunaeur.org/ (a very useful site for mandatory (!) name verification, but, unfortunately, mainly for Western and Central Europe)
http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (nomenclature resource)
http://www.linnean-online.org/ (all typical Linnean samples with subsequent name changes)
http://hymglossary.tamu.edu/projects/32/pu.../label/list_all (specific terminology)

Chrysididae:
http://www.chrysis.net/index_en.php

There is also a "classic" monograph of the world fauna with keys to the genus (The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Bohart R. M., Kimsey S. L., 1990), but it has not yet been posted online.

Vespidae (ex. Eumeninae & Masarinae):
http://fen.nsu.ru/~vvdubat/Vespidae/wasplist.htm
http://www.vespa-bicolor.net/
http://www.vespa-crabro.de/russia1.htm
http://vespabellicosus2008.narod.ru/index.html
http://www.ipc.ibaraki.ac.jp/~jkrte/wasp/list.html
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejourna..._05/bmc_05.html
http://users.swing.be/entomologie/Vespidae...he%20World1.htm

There is also a "classic" monograph of the world fauna with keys to genera and species (A key to the World species of the Vespinae. Archer M. E., 1989), but it has not yet been posted online.

To our great regret and surprise, there is still no determinant of the Eumenines of the world fauna, although there are regional ones.

Formicidae:
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?act=x_c...uide=Ant_genera
http://www.antweb.org/
http://www.lasius.narod.ru/school.htm

Sphecidae (sensu lato):
http://books.google.ru/books?id=FExMjuRhjp...epage&q&f=false ("classic" monograph of the world fauna with keys to the genus)

http://research.calacademy.org/ent/catalog_sphecidae (almost all, constantly updated and most complete information about the group in the volume of world fauna, but without keys)

Apidae:
http://books.google.ru/books?id=bu_1gmY13F...erbstia&f=false ("classic" monograph of bees of the world fauna with keys to the genus)

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/res...mbus/index.html (constantly updated and most complete information about bumblebees of the world fauna)

Good evening! Here are some more summer photos, help who knows what!
Everyone who can be found from different angles, but, in principle,it would be nice to decide at least up to the gender.
All ours, Rostov. Waiting for help!

1A

1B

Taken on 23.05.2010 11: 20: 00


3B

Taken on 16.06.2010 10:09:38 AM

4A

4B

Taken on 15.07.2010 10: 29: 05

5A

5B

Taken on 15.07.2010 10: 22: 33

6A

6B

Taken on 15.07.2010 10: 30: 03

7A

7B

Taken on 31.07.2010 10:42:08 AM

8

Taken on 26.08.2010 15: 52: 40

9

Taken on 29.08.2010 14: 48: 34

Thank you very much in advance!

This post was edited by Bolivar - 12/28/2010 22: 23

Good evening! Here are some more summer photos, help who knows what!

8-sort of like astata boops