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Cabatatu/Synoeca Social Wasp

Synoeca cf. cyanea

Photo by LeonardoMB
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Field Notes

Description:

A wasp with blue wings.

Habitat:

I foun this specimens in a region of transition between the Cerrado and Atlantic Florest.

Reference Links:

Synoeca cyanea – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre, First records ofSynoeca septentrionalis Richards, 1978 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, …

Species ID Suggestions

Synoeca Social Wasp

Synoeca cf. cyanea

Reference Link
bayucca
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Comments (5)
Ingrid3
Really fascinating structure they have built!
LaurenZarate
Wonderful find! What an amazing nest and a beautiful wasp. Your pictures show the red mandibles very well.
Ava T-B
Beautiful! The third picture is lovely.
LeonardoMB
Very-Very really thanks for help "bayucca". I will check and ID ;)
bayucca
Vespidae, Synoeca sp., quite a painful sting and venom. You have 4 species of Synoeca in Brazil: Cyanea, Surinama, only recently reported Septentrionalis, #4 I cannot remember... http://www.flickr.com/photos/12574057@N02/5744467058 http://www.flickr.com/photos/80125969@N00/1280042033 http://www.flickr.com/photos/80125969@N00/1280042007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/29367844@N03/8626462925 http://www.flickr.com/photos/47546969@N02/7000043470 http://www.flickr.com/photos/40754330@N03/5837576955 http://www.flickr.com/photos/29697818@N03/3129107664 Best match: http://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Insect-Orders/Bees-Wasps-and-Sawflies/i-cxzktbT http://visualsunlimited.photoshelter.com/image/I0000ooNDrU7DrX8 Some more links about Synoeca, agriculture, pain, pests and flies... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118981 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1653/024.096.0243 http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/view/82345/79418 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3286226/#!po=50.0000

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Nests, hives, bowers, webs & other animal architecture
Mission
The Color Blue
Mission
Brazil Life
Photographed
PublishedNovember 16, 2013

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