Two Nomada

[Dogghound]

1.

Can someone confirm this is Nomada ruficornis, deciduous edge of woodland North Yorkshire.

2.

Not great on these at the best of times so this one has me stumped, very small, about 6/7mm in length maybe slightly more. On a track in open pastoral farmland.

Thanks DH.

[oxycera]

The top one looks like flava, but I don't regard myself as any great shakes with these either
All the specimens I determined as ruficornis in the 1980s I've recently re-id'ed as panzeri.
The second shot is a bit too dark for me to form an opinion, I'm afraid

[tristanba]

I'd agree #1 is flava. I fiddled with #2 in photoshop and it does look good for ruficornis; still not really possible to see the necessary details of the abdominal tergites however

[Dogghound]

Thanks alot for your help I really appreciate it. Im just beginning to learn about these.

[eucera]

1 Could be N. flava, but without looking at the colour of the hairs on the clypeus, I can't rule out N. panzeri

2 So difficult to see. I wouldn't like to say what this one is. 6-7 mm seems far too small for N. ruficornis - more like N. flavoguttata at that size.

[tristanba]

...quite right at 6-7mm its much more likely to be flavoguttata - they really look tiny in the field