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Solved - Wormlion larva - Vermileo vermileo
Benus
Hi, any chance to identify this specimen?

Found in Tuscany, Italy. 500m height, 25km from the sea, they cope with soil that often is flooded by rain, all the winter is moist.

If I remember well it was around 15mm in lenght.

To download the photo: ---> http://farm8.stat...ed45_o.jpg
To see it on flickr: ---------> http://www.flickr...hotostream

farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6733317273_ce607dcfcb.jpg


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Edited by Benus on 19-02-2012 10:30
 
Christian Kehlmaier
Tuscany should still be Vermileo vermileo territory. Additional species occur more south. Vermileo larvae are easy to breed. Did you take any with you?
 
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Benus
Hi Christian!

Thank you for your the help, I haven't taken any of them, when I've take the photo I was living there so it was normal to see them every day, even without knowing what they are.

In the exact point of the photo there was a big area covered by them. I think because it was a place rich of cherry-honeydew, so there was a colony of Lasius sp. , one of Formica fusca and one of Crematogaster scutellaris serching the area.
Edited by Benus on 01-02-2012 02:38
 
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