noordwest Griekenland part3

[Th. Zeegers]

En met deze kan ik niks,
in Noord-Frankrijk zou ik dit zonder nadenken sphecodes noemen...


Ophryx herae ??

[marios giannakoulias]

very beautiful!! I am ''conservative'' and this is O. sphegodes ssp. sphegodes

[Th. Zeegers]

Dear Marios

Thank you very much !
My comment in Dutch (sorry for that) was that I would call this sphecodes s.s. without any second thought, if it were from France.
But it is from North West Greece !

I am not allowed to post the locality here, if you are interested give me a mail at thdotzeegersatxs4alldotnl.

By the way, thanks for your excellent book on Greece.I loved the fact that you are being conservative.

Greetings


Theo

[marios giannakoulias]

you are welcome. No worries, I use google translate. The book is problematic and a compromise, I am much more ''conservative'' (I prefer the wording common sense actually) in real life.
There is O. sphegodes ssp. sphegodes in Greece. There are no real differences morphologically from populations in the UK (locus typicus)
http://www.arkive.org/early-spider-orch ... sphegodes/

the plants are also very variable when artificially grown from seed