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| Record Summary | Male flying in and around brambles by a forest track in mature woodland |
| Found as | Male imago |
| Date | 24 June 2023 |
| Capture method | netted |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: NN50 |
| Lat/Lon | 56° 10’ N, 4° 20’ W |
| Vice County | West Perthshire, VC no: 87 |
| Country | Scotland |
| Voucher | 24 Jun 2023[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Body length: 16mm; flagellomeres: 45, black tyloids on F5-16, flagellum black below.
Face with inner orbits broadly, yellow, a yellow spot beneath each antenna, clypeus and labrum yellow; mandible bidentate.
Coxae black, trochanters yellow rimmed, trochantellae brownish, hind trochantellus and extreme base of femur red, hind tibia red in basal half.
Propodeum with area superomedia broad, juxtacoxal carina absent.
Metasoma black with T3 brownish orange in basal half and diffuse side spots, continuing onto base of T4, no tail spots; postpetiole with central area raised and strongly irregularly striate, gastrocoeli large, thyridia small.
Sternites 1-3 with fold, hypopygium with rounded short apical projection.
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