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Hymenoptera continue to be much under-recorded in Nottinghamshire and
the distribution of the less well-known (or more obvious) species
tends to come from specialist surveys. Within the Order, Sphecodes
are difficult to identify and a specimen is really a must for accurate
identification. Fortunately Tim Sexton has taken on the challenge of
Hymenoptera while surveying a former colliery site at Rainworth, from
where this Sphecodes puncticeps was taken in September 2020.
The only other recent county record was from Sherwood Forest CP in 1985
(Archer, M.). Thanks go to Tim, for
supplying the photograph below. |
