Dasylabris maura
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Dasylabris maura is a hymenoptera fromthe ant family wasps (Mutillidae).
features
The wasps have a body length of 7 to 13 millimeters (females) or 10 to 15 millimeters (males). The females have a black head and abdomen; their antennae and legs are dark brown. Your thorax, which is curved inwards forwards and backwards, is red. The forehead, the end of the first tergite and a round spot at the base including two broad spots at the end of the second tergite, spots in the middle of the fourth and fifth tergite and the end fringes of the second and third sternite are lightly haired. The first tergite is narrow and nodularly separated from the second tergite. The head, the pleura at the mesonotum , the antennae, the legs and the abdomen of the males are black. The thorax is red dorsally. There are light hair ties at the end of the first and second tergite, the entire third tergite is also hairy. Some more hairs are at the base of the second tergite as well as on the end fringe of the second and third sternite. The small, oval tegulae are red. The first tergite is narrow and nodularly separated from the second.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed from north-west Africa across southern and central Europe to Russia and Turkey. The animals fly from mid-May to early September. The larvae are parasitoids of Ammophila heydeni , Bembecinus tridens , Sphex occitanicus and probably also of Eumenes arbustorum .
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literature
F. Amiet: Fauna Helvetica 23: Vespoidea 1 . Center Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune, 2008, ISBN 978-2-88414-035-5 .