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Dear Frank,

yes,
it's Hedychridium sculpturatum
and in the latest two pictures you have the male, which is chromatic dimorphic.

I just realized that I found another specimen of Hedychridium at the same place. So it might be the same species as I thought about H. sculpturatum for this one...

... H. roseum nanum, H. lampadum austeritatum , but it is common also in H. sculpturatum females and H. choloropygum females. I can't see very well the shape of the head in dorsal view, however my guess is Hedychridium sculpturatum for the dense punctation on the abdomen and thorax ...

... and coarse. In this area there are other species with the same colouration, but with slightly different shape of the head: H. mediocrum and H. sculpturatum . Anyway, without the specimen in your hands ... it's impossible to add something else. Thanks Paolo

For me it is not rossicum (the valid name for valesiense, see the paper of Paolo Rosa), because rossicum has a gold-green metallic patch on the central sternite.
But I cannot say if it is sculpturatum or mediocrum.

Hello, I found some Hedychridium sp. in a field, a kind of sandy hole. A few other species were at the same ... to get ID without checking the genitalia ? It looks like Hedychridium mediocrum or sculpturatum or maybe valesiense ? I don't know about the criteria between these species... ...

Hi Paul, Your Hedychridium has red metallic abdomen, but mine has metallic reflects only slightly developped ... But my material for photos is a simple compact. This year I found some Hedychridium sculpturatum/rossicum (with red metallic reflects on abdomen) females and males, and some ...

... simplex, C. radians, Hedychrum nobile, H. gerstaeckeri, H. rutilans, Hedychridium cf. roseum, H. rossicum/sculpturatum. (I made the first regional observations for H. nobile, C. scutellaris, C. cf. ...

... slightly deformed the genitalias :? but I think they are like fig 118 ( sculpturatum , in Linsenmaier, 1959), gonostyle are 3 l./w in my picture ... fig. 118) and digitus not very long. With the key of Arens (2010, about Hedychridium roseum group from Peloponnese) I hesited between sculpturatum ...

... conserved, belonging to 4 taxa: Cleptes mareki Rosa, 2003 (holotypus), Hedychridium tyrrhenicum Strumia, 2003 (paratypus), Chrysis schmideggeri ... were often wrongly identified: for example, under the name Hedychridium sculpturatum Abeille there were different species belonging to 3 different ...