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Roadkill so excuse it for being scruffy. In size this is reminiscent of a tarantula hawk.
Wasp ID please.
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Looks rather like a scoliid of some sort.
tbrandt
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Where did you find it?
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Farmland and forest area 15km outside Chiang Mai, N Thailand. It was flying low just like a tarantula hawk does when searching for prey and roughly the size of one. The largest wasp I have seen here. I'll venture a guess a female looking to mate.
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Horntail. They're in the same family as sawflies.
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So not a wasp at all. Interesting. I jumped to the conclusion simply because it acted so much like the T Hawk.
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Not a horntail. I have never seen one with the abundant, hairs on the abdomen that this one appears to have. Can you post any closer cleared pics??
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Afraid not. The cat got that one. Will keep an eye out though.
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Genus Scolia?
The face is so ridiculously horntail-like, but myrm is right. Three small prongs on the abdomen threw me off.
The face is so ridiculously horntail-like, but myrm is right. Three small prongs on the abdomen threw me off.