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:welcome: Milo, this is Omalus biaccinctus . As you wrote, it's the only one in Central Europe with this colour pattern. Omalus aeneus and O. puncticollis are green to blue, sometimes even violet, however ...

Ciao!

I agree with Omalus aeneus (Fabr.).
However the small punctuation on mesosoma is noticeably,

do you have a picture of the mesosoma in dorsal view?
Perhaps it could be O. puncticollis or a similar form.

Paolo

... + ( gaster [GR, nn.] = venter (metasoma)) [m.] Omalus (from omalos [GR, adj.] = uniform, smooth) ... Omalus (from omalos [GR, adj.] = uniform) aeneus (from aeneus [LAT, adj.] = bronze, bronze ... [LAT, past part.] = englose, encircle) puncticollis (from punctus [LAT, nn.] = point, dot) ...

... Semenov, 1967; Elampus petri Semenov, 1967; Omalus miramae (Semenov, 1932); Omalus zarudnyi ... 1968 = H. wolfi Linsenmaier, 1959 Omalus aeneus puncticollis Mocsáry, 1887 = O. aeneus aeneus (Fabricius, ...

Hello Gian Luca and Paolo,

We have Omalus aeneus in our list and there's no puncticollis at all.
So I will place it as a uncertain Omalus aeneus, it will be the first picture there.

Regards,
Hedy

Hi everyone! I would add puncticollis Mocsary. The sistematic position of this ... I prefer to consider it as a simple variation of Omalus aeneus Fabricius. However in the check-list of the Chrysididae ...

One more try for the bad pictures with this one:
It had a green back-part and seems to be a lady...?
Maybe you can tell which one it is..?
Picture is of 25-8-10, Zeist, Holland