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I have only two comments:
Spintharina versicolor: it's a Chrysis varidens
Chrysis graelsii: with that colour it's very likely Chrysis valesiana.

Congrats, beautiful pictures for beautiful species

Could it be a Spintharina versicolor, perhaps a male? But not very confident; haven't seen a chrysidid for months...
Brian

Hi Brian,

it's a male of Spintharina versicolor

... Thanks for pointing that out Paolo! The greenish specimen made me think Spintharina versicolor at first...

Nice pictures, not easy to photograph these ones live in nature!

It's Spintharina versicolor, parasitoids of pollen wasps, Celonites (Vespidae, Masarinae). They should actually be included in Chrysis, but to not confuse things it's still kept in Spintharina

... I think my specimens are not Chrysura simplex but more austriaca), Spintharina versicolor, Chrysidea, and many Chrysis (bicolor, germari, succincta, equestris, sexdentata, ...

Morocco, Tafraoute env.,23.5.2018, 1100m.
6mm

Spintharina versicolor??

... Holochrysis )) UKRAINE: Crimea: South Coast Notes. Currently synonym of Spintharina versicolor Chrysis bergi Semenov (in Semenov-Tian-Shanskij & Nikol'skaya), 1967) ( Chrysis ...

Dear Rudolf, yes, you're right. It's the female of Spintharina versicolor (Spinola). Of course you can follow Linsenmaier and place versicolor in the genus Chrysis ...

Hi
At first I thought in Spintharina versicolor because I saw that species the last year in the same place, but looking more carefully it seems different
Could it be Spintharina cuprata ?

Soria province, Spain, 14/July/2012, on Euphorbia nicaeensis.

Thanks !!