Göksü delta (Mersin), Turkey 27 May 2008

Wasps & Bees

Tachysphex cf. erythropus
Male perching in territory

Tachysphex cf. panzeri
Female closing nest entrance

Sceliphron destillatorium
Resting male

Prionyx spec.

Delta unguiculata
Female

Eumenes spec.

Xylocopa spec.

Apidae: Megachilinae

Cataglyphis nodus
Male (top right) and workers. Top middle: workers carrying dead and already mouldy honey bee into nest.

Flies

Amictus cf. pulchellus	Anthrax aethiops
I found both these Bombylids in the lee side of an isolated Tamarisk shrub in a flat sandy landscape.
Thyridanthrax elegans	Exhyalanthrax ?muscarius
I found both these Bombylids in the dry bedding of an irrigation canal.

Promachus spec.
Although on photographs the eye colour varies, in real life they looked mostly like green emeralds - like the top middle photograph. My guess is that the bottom specimen is a female of the same species as the males in the top row.

Laphystia spec.
On bare sand.

Saropogon spec.

Tabanidae: Chrysops spec.

Syrphidae: Eristalinus megacephalus

Butterflies

Pontia edusa

Colias crocea

Lycaena thersamon

Tarucus balkanicus

Carcharodus orientalis

Thymelicus hyrax

Damselflies & Dragonflies

Lestes macrostigma

Platycnemis dealbata

Crocothemis erythraea	Crocothemis servilia
Diplacodes lefebvrii
Brachythemis fuscopalliata	Trithemis annulata

Orthetrum taeniolatum

Orthetrum sabina

Miscellaneous

Neuroptera: Myrmeleonidae

Mantodea

Julodis cf. andeae