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Can anyone identify this wasp ?

30th Jun 2012 09:16:15

Question from:pat

sorry i messed up trying to attach foto yesterday , but here it is now, can anyone identify this wasp, i took this foto in london 2010, it was about 10ml long and all black

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1st Jul 2012 13:02:40

Dave Warburton

South London
Posts: 527

Hi, this is a spider-hunting wasp of the Pomilidae family of solitary wasps. There are a good number of spider-hunters in UK and they're not easy to identify, especially as the photo is very blurry. However, it *could* be something like Anoplius niggerimus but as I say, this is not a confident identification.

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