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

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

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

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