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Hi Thibault, yes, they are enough for ID. It's a male of Chrysis daphnis . And the previous one is a female of Chrysis consanguinea . You can compare the punctation of their abdomen. In Chrysis daphnis punctures are ...

... (especially the first tergite redder), maybe it can be the male of Chrysis consanguinea ? If the picture of genitalias isn't sufficient I will be able to take another ...

Thanks Paolo !

I guess I will stay at Chrysis cf consanguinea for this specimen, until I found other species of the viridula group.

I also caught a small male in late may, maybe it will be easier to determinate.

Hi Thibault, well, the first evaluation is on the cuckoo wasp size. Chrysis vareana is really large, similarly to C. integra (or a bit smaller), ... the female frons (seen in dorsal view) is largely golden-red (in C. consanguinea there are two small golden spots at sides of anterior ocellus, ...

Hi Paolo,

It's a quite small one comparated to my viridula specimens, only 7mm long.

How can you differenciate vareana from consanguinea ?

Hi

how large is this specimen?
It looks like a large one.
This could be vareana Linsenmaier

Ciao

... a sandy floor near to tubes of solitary Vespidae . I think it could be Chrysis consanguinea for the very elongated shape and the golden spots between the eyes, but I don't ...

... forebody (head and thorax). C. sehestedti is very large, like Chrysis integra , about 1 cm. In Southhern Spain there are several similar species ( Chrysis daphnis, Chrysis consanguinea, Chrysis vareana ) difficult to separate without the specimen in your ...

Shot today at approx. 1600 masl in Sierra Nevada, to the South of Granada.

Hello,
I observed this Chrysis (Lc = 8 mm) on 06 June 2020 at an altitude of 916 m (FR 05, Eygliers Hautes-Alpes) on the sunny slopes of "La Roustagne" with Mediterranean vegetation. Could it be Chrysis consanguinea ?
What do you think ?
Thanks ! Best regards
Brigitte Emmery