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... metallic areas on abdomen, for example H. roseum bohemicum, H. roseum sudeticum, H. roseum spaceki, H. roseum nanum, H. lampadum austeritatum , but it is common also ... of the head in dorsal view, however my guess is Hedychridium sculpturatum for the dense punctation on ...

Hi Frank,

Why not !
But I never found any Hedychridium with this colour (as your gratiosum ) and I have not the description of H. roseum nanum.
H. caputaureum has a reddish pronotum (more red than in roseum).

As usual, very nice photos (but I repeat myself) !!

Hello, I found this small female Elampini, H. roseum group, in a way in the grassland of Chaudanne (Besançon). I think it is Hedychridium roseum roseum (not nanum, not chloropygum, not caputaureum?), but not sure (females ...