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Nice pictures! Its a Hedychrum sp., malei, ts either H. nobile or H. niemelai , although the size makes the latter more probable. Potentially it could also be H. gerstaeckeri but the punctures on tergite 3 seem far too fine for that species. They cant really ...

... :beer: , Englich with Google Translator. > then it must be a female Hedychrum. Holopyga generosa is not present in the biotope. Very often Hedychrum ... So presumably remains only Hedychrum. For the region are reported: H. gerstaeckeri, H. niemelai, H. nobile, H. rutilans. It remains almost exclusively ...

Its a male Hedychrum sp., probably H. nobile, H. niemelai or possibly H. gerstaeckeri

Same as before,

male of Hedychrum, probably gerstaeckeri (based on different colouration compare to the previous one)?
I cannot be sure without specimen.

Cheers

... pop up in my head when I posted it, but seeing as its a Sardinian endemic... it could of course be a related species. Are they related to H. gerstaeckeri (as rufipes was described as a ssp of it), or do they have their own species group? I should have collected some males, hopefully :) Dont ...

... = appear) + ( ba [RUS, nn.] = soul) [f.] Hedychreides (derivated from Hedychrum ) [m.] Hedychridium (derivated from Hedychrum ). Comment: we are ... chalybaeum (from chalybaeius, a, um [LAT, adj.] = made of steel) gerstaeckeri (dedicated to Karl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker) niemelai (dedicated ...

Hallo, our German friend, Gerd Reder, sent me some nice pictures of Hedychrum gerstaeckeri and rutilans for our web-site: Pictures were taken in his garden in Flörsheim-Dalsheim ...

... much for this information! Of course Halictus could not be the host of Hedychrum spp. It was only a very old citation. On the other hand, Cerceris ... are well known as hosts of different Hedychrum : nobile , niemelai and gerstaeckeri . This is not a scientifical evidence, but it is surely an important ...

Nice pictures from S France!
Yes, you're right, this Chrysidid should be Hedychrum longicolle Abeille, even if it is easier to ID this species by direct examination of the specimen. Sometimes they can be confused with the more common H. gerstaeckeri.

Cheers
Paolo

... comosa Semenov, 1954 Holopyga hirta Semenov, 1954 (synonym of comosa ); Hedychrum cholodkovskii Semenov, 1967; Hedychrum mithras Semenov, 1967; Chrysis ... previous version of Faunaeur : 2 (Dodecannese Is., France). Hedychrum gerstaeckeri Chevrier, 1869 distribution: 28 countries/regions (Albania, ...