Insect and Spider Identification: does anyone know this tropical bee(?)?, 1 by LadyAshleyR

LadyAshleyR wrote:
I took a picture from "What's that Bug" and blew it up, rotated, and clipped out the wing for comparison.
It looks the same as far as wing and cell structure.
I think you have it right for the ID, as far as I can tell physically, with the natural variation in the species colors, however, I don't know if there are similar species that are identical with the exception of dissection. Would be up to you to find out that info ;)

this page has a list of similar species and subspecies.
http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/I/Isanthrene_crabroniformis/

Should help narrow the search!
EDIT: Peeking at similar species, not so sure anymore. I'm up to "cazador" which may be our first contender.
http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=102349
will look more closely later.

This message was edited Dec 13, 2011 12:13 PM