Hoverfly and Digger Wasp? Sussex (1 Viewer)

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Can anyone help with these? I'm thinking Argogorytes mystaceus for the digger wasp and Leucozona lucorum for the hoverfly (assuming that they are a digger wasp and hoverfly ) Can anyone confirm or correct?

Cheers :t:

Jan

 

[Ficedula]

this is L. lucorum look closely at wing venation and compare yours, note recurrent M1+2.

not a digger wasp, a Eumenid Symmorphus sp.

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

this is L. lucorum look closely at wing venation and compare yours, note recurrent M1+2.

not a digger wasp, a Eumenid Symmorphus sp.

Thanks I take it the Eumenid can't be id'd to species on the photo?

Is the Hoverfly V.pellucens then? Looking at the veins they seem maybe to match that better? I'm totally new to trying to identify insects other than odonata and lepidoptera so still trying to get my head around the details of veins!

Jan

 

[aeshna5]

Thanks I take it the Eumenid can't be id'd to species on the photo?

Is the Hoverfly V.pellucens then? Looking at the veins they seem maybe to match that better? I'm totally new to trying to identify insects other than odonata and lepidoptera so still trying to get my head around the details of veins!

Jan

Yes it is V. pellucens.

 

[Ficedula]

Thanks I take it the Eumenid can't be id'd to species on the photo?

not by me

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Fair enough chaps Thanks for your help and pointing me in the right direction!

Jan