Sawfly? - Pseudomasaris zonalis

Moved

Moved from Pseudomasaris edwardsii.'

This is P. zonalis. The antennal club isn't emarginate beneath (so not edwardsii) and antennal segment 6 is >3 times longer than broad (so not marginalis) and its to dark to be coquilletti.

… Nathaniel Green, 29 June, 2021 - 5:09pm

Thanks for fixing this, Nathaniel -

appears clear & does not look like edwardsii.

… Hartmut Wisch, 29 June, 2021 - 6:51pm

I figured

I figured it was a simple mistake. You clearly know the species well!

… Nathaniel Green, 30 June, 2021 - 1:30pm

Moved

Moved from Pseudomasaris.

… Hartmut Wisch, 13 November, 2020 - 11:55pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Bob Zuparko, 2 January, 2020 - 10:56am

Pseudomasaris sp.

It would be really helpful to have a closely cropped image of the entire insect (applies to the other specimens you've posted as well).

… Ken Wolgemuth, 31 December, 2019 - 3:06pm

On it

Ya, phone pictures aren't cutting it and my microscope cam doesn't get wide enough. I will find a solution and post more pictures of each.

… John Schisel, 31 December, 2019 - 3:16pm

If nothing else it would be g

If nothing else it would be great to crop the photos taken with the phone so they just show the wasp (or other insect for other photos) rather than the wasp plus all the background.

Some folks - mostly editors - can see the full size image so zoom in on the bug, but most of the site users can't and thus can't use your images effectively.

Hope that makes sense!

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 2 January, 2020 - 11:29am

Thank you

Makes perfect sense! I am working on a way to work this with what i have available.

… John Schisel, 2 January, 2020 - 11:09pm

I use gimp, which is a free i

I use gimp, which is a free image editing software.

If you are using BugGuide from your phone I'm sure there are options but sadly can't give advice there.

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 3 January, 2020 - 5:29am

First two images cropped

… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 January, 2020 - 11:39pm

"Waist" feels too thin for a

"Waist" feels too thin for a sawfly but someone may be able to tell you more.

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 31 December, 2019 - 2:15pm

Agreed

I had a similar thought, the clubbed antenna are what got me thinking sawfly. Any other ideas?

… John Schisel, 31 December, 2019 - 2:41pm