Hi again gomjabar35,
I'm a wildlife photographer with a huge passion for all living creatures. I want to name my photos as correctly as possible, be it plants or animals. But there are 8.8 million named species on Earth and I have no idea what criterias are needed for each family to be able to ID.
I really don't know what to look for to make an ID on the Sphecidae family. I try to go by what I've learned from other experts about other orders or families but it's often very different I understand. I do know a bit more about ID the Araneae order, birds, and some on the Diptera order. But in the Hymenoptera order I know pretty much nothing.
Ratatosk nous dit qu'il est d'abord photographe, et comme il prend tout il ne peut se spécialiser (un peu les araignées,oiseaux et diptères), il cherche juste le nom pour l'album.
I did look at my individuals coloring and location of where the black starts on the abdomen but with like with spiders color or pattern is not something you use to ID. But looking at where the black starts I did notice that no photos I tried to find in insect databases of Ammophila sp. had the black that far back. I though that OK my individual is just a bit more extreme in having the black far back. The same goes for the hairiness on the head and rest, mine seems very hairy and on photos seems to give off a silver tone but I thought that could also differ between individuals. One thing I do know is that often the hairs on the legs (or what they are called) is something that is used to ID. I noticed mine had very different hairing on the legs compared to the database photos I studied.
Il ne pense pas que les couleurs soit déterminantes, comme souvent pour les araignés. Parti sur ammophila (...)
What I mostly need is guidance to what to look for on an individual to narrow it down to a family or even species.
Ce dont j'ai besoin c'est d'une orientation sur quoi regarder
In any case, on another forum there is an expert that wanted to see the fore tarsus of this individual to ID it correctly. That info lets me know what is needed and I can then search all my photos to give him a photo showing that part and then get a more correct ID. He believes this is a Podalonia tydei and looking at the legs now I see the same type of hairiness on mine but I'll wait for his comment on my latest photo on the fore tarsus to see what he says.
Dans tous les cas sur un autre forum un expert a demander de voir le tarse 1 pour confirmer Podalonia tydei. A regarder les pattes je vois le m^me type de pilosité.
