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... Eumenes pomiformis Do you have any hunch of what host it might have? Someone I talked to over the internet mentioned Megachile dorsalis? C. scutellaris is found only on a hot, sandy place in Sweden, a place with many other rare Hymenopterans. I saw one female C. scutellaris crawl down a ...

... :D I know that it is a rare species there! The ovopositor is very long yes! There are some species with a longer ovopositor as well: i.e. Chrysis subsinuata . When you open all the internal sternites and tergites you need more labels to glue them :wow: Thanks for your interesting observation ...

I did not know that the ovipositors of some Chrysis species could be this long, and agile until I caught what in Sweden is a very rare and endangered species: Chrysis scutellaris :wohow: At one point the tip of the ovipositor was touching the back of her head, ...