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Hi Erwann

sorry for the delay, your message was confused with spam messages

Yes, you're right!
It's a male of Chrysis elegans

Cheers
Paolo

... have literally nothing to take pictures (sudent life ...). I found this Chrysis in Corsica, in July 2019, on a back of a beach, i arrived not easily to Chrysis elegans male but i don't know if there is related species, and i really don't have a lot ...

Chrysis del gruppo elegans.

Dovrebbe essere la Chrysis elegans azrouensis Linsenmaier

Altro esemplare marocchino, lungo 7mm. Dati di raccolta: Marocco, 18.V.2017, MEKNES-TAFILALT - passo Tizi-n Tretten, R. Rattu leg.

Is mediocrum Linsenmaier = mediocrate Kimsey ? Arens uses mediocrate in his paper (2015, key of the Hedychridium & Chrysis angustifrons-elegans).

Dovrebbe essere la femmina di Chrysis albitarsis Mocsáry (gruppo elegans)
ma siccome vado a memoria potrebbe anche essere una femmina di Chrysis marani (gruppo succincta)

per confermare ho bisogno di una foto del capo in visione frontale,

... in the Swedish Museum of Natural History is given. The lectotypes of Chrysis diversa Dahlbom, 1845, C. soror Dahlbom, 1854, Chrysura sulcata Dahlbom, ... Dahlbom, 1845 is set aside. Five new synonymies are proposed: Chrysis elegans var. smaragdula Trautmann, 1926 (currently C. elegans ssp. interrogata ...

... Ian! Very nice specimen. There are only two similar species in Spain: Chrysis angustifrons Abeille and C. castillana du Buysson. The differences are very small. They belong the C. elegans group. Based on the whitish femura could be the C. castillana , but without ...

... Spinola is given. The neotypes of six species are designated: Chrysis bicolor Lepeletier, 1806; C. comparata Lepeletier, 1806; C. dives ... 1984); C. calimorpha Mocsáry, 1882 (designated by Móczár 1965); C. elegans Lepeletier, 1806 (designated by Bohart (in Kimsey and Bohart 1991)); ...

Sigh, I always confuse those two, the spelling"compta" is likely why I confuse them. Got the opportunity to snap some photos of the genital capsule and malar space at the institution today: Captured 60X 2 copy.jpg Z-Series-Aligned-Focused comparata copy.jpg From what I can see both the mal...