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Crimea. Size about 5 mm, no specimen

Omalus aeneus?

I'm sorry Paolo, I have no other pictures than these.
It was quite dark this place and it's already good that I have these pictures
Thank you for your reaction!

Regards,
Hedy

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

Pietsje and Alex: thank you very much for your reactions!

Regards,
Hedy

Is it possible to name this fly..?
Found 5-6-2015 in Zeist, Holland

... the article: Wei N-s, Rosa P., Liu J-x, & Xu Z-f (2014) The genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, with descriptions ... of which four are new to science and one is new to China: Omalus aeneus (Fabricius, 1787), Omalus berezovskii (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1932), ...

... [GR, adj.] = small) + ( gaster [GR, nn.] = venter (metasoma)) [m.] Omalus (from omalos [GR, adj.] = uniform, smooth) [m.] Parachrum (from par, ... “A Dictionary of Entomology”. Omalus (from omalos [GR, adj.] = uniform) aeneus (from aeneus [LAT, adj.] = bronze, bronze coloured) chevrieri (dedicated ...

... (16): Elampus cecchiniae Semenov, 1967; Elampus petri Semenov, 1967; Omalus miramae (Semenov, 1932); Omalus zarudnyi (Semenov, 1932); Pseudomalus ... perraudini Linsenmaier, 1968 = H. wolfi Linsenmaier, 1959 Omalus aeneus puncticollis Mocsáry, 1887 = O. aeneus aeneus (Fabricius, 1787) Omalus ...

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

... Morgan (1984)) but now I prefer to consider it as a simple variation of Omalus aeneus Fabricius. However in the check-list of the Chrysididae in Holland it should be under ...