Comments on: ID Help! Nicaraguan Hymenoptera

By: Kolby

Kolby — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:09:44 +0000

Thanks, Alex! It does!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:38:55 +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

By: kahunna

kahunna — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:09:44 +0000

Thanks, Alex! It does!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:38:55 +0000

By: kahunna

kahunna — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:02:20 +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!

By: George Waldren

George Waldren — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:23:27 +0000

The velvet ant is in the genus Dasymutilla.

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

By: John Ascher

John Ascher — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:51:16 +0000

Bee01 is Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille) [sensu lato]

By: Gordon Snelling

Gordon Snelling — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:50:38 +0000

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

By: Kolby

Kolby — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:53:49 +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.

By: Boris Büche

Boris Büche — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:18:36 +0000

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