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Hi Paul,

I'm not sure 100%.
It could be also a form of Hedychridium caputaureum, for the evident golden-green face and posterior margin of pronotum.

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Hedychridium roseum group genae are parallel, not mediocrum, but the golden reflects on vertex & scutellum is a problem for ...

Hi,

yes, there's another option:

Hedychridium mediocrum Linsenmaier.
It's also quite common and females have non metallic abdomen and genae (in dorsal view) subparallel to slighlty divergent (not rounde as in H. roseum and H. valesiense females)

Hello, I found this small female Elampini, H. roseum group, in a way in the grassland of Chaudanne (Besançon). I think it is Hedychridium roseum roseum (not nanum, not chloropygum, not caputaureum?), but not sure (females valesianum ...

... in the same station : Chrysis analis (abundant !), bicolor/illigeri, Hedychridium roseum roseum, Pseudomalus auratus. Sphecid wasps found in the station : Ammophila campestris ...

Hedychridium sp. of the roseum group

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Shot in Talará, Granada, S Spain at 700 masl. 16/07/2017. In garden on carrot flowers.

... sphecid, as Tachysphex, Miscophus or Astatinae some minutes before this Chrysid, & Lasioglossum on flowers). Why cupratum : colouration (exit roseum group, remark : scutum & pronotum are more red than in the pictures) ; big puncture (not as coriaceum) ; Metallic tibia (green with golden ...

Thanks Alex.

Hedychridium roseum would make sense - there were a number of Astata (probably boops picea but I have yet to confirm) on the same nectar source (in this case Cachrys trifida). Are all the members of this group cleptoparasites of Astata?

Ian

Its a Hedychridium sp., in the roseum-group