Natural History Photographs


Muğla, Turkey
Pinara
12 & 13 June 2009






Sphecidae: Ammophila spec.


Pompilidae: Cryptocheilus cf. ichneumonoides


Vespidae: Delta unguiculata

Ceramius spec.

Polistes spec.
Scoliidae:
Scolia cf. sexmaculata


Apidae: Xylocopa spec.
Megachilinae


Diptera: Bombyliidae

Callostoma fascipenne
cf. Spogostylum isis
Hemipenthes velutina
Heteralonia megerlei
Stomylomyia spec.
unidentified Thyridanthrax elegans
Thyridanthrax incanus
Various unidentified Villini



Asilidae



Tachinidae:
Wagneria spec.
Calliphoridae:
Chrysomya cf. albiceps


Tabanidae: Philipomyia graeca
This male flew some time above a little pool, then it dropped onto the water surface, probably to drink. Although it stayed afloat, the male was not able to move itself, and thus depended on wind and water flow to arrive savely at the pool's edge.


Syrphidae: Eristalis arbustorum


Tachinidae: Ectophasia oblonga


Odonata
Epallage fatime    Calopteryx virgo
 
 
Cordulegaster insignis Caliaeschna microstigma




Miscellaneous
Larinus cf onopordi
Buprestidae, Acmaeoderini
Cerambycidae: Purpuricenus spec.




Pseudochazara anthelea
Gonepteryx farinosa Plebejus loewii Maniola jurtina
Plebejus loewii




Mantodea Heriaeus spec. Orthoptera