Hi Piluca, you are always :welcome: However we don't have to wait too much ... I mean the chrysididological season in Spain is coming very soon :slurp: In Souther Spain the first specimens are already on wings in February :wohow: And in South and central Spain they fly until October and November Ciao!
Hallo ! Yes Andrea is right, it's a Chrysura belonging to the dichroa group. There are only few species in Spain, but it is difficult to be precise without other pictures. ...
Found in the mountains of Madrid, feeding on Thapsia villosa on 23.06.2013. Very colourful but I am totally confused. Pictures are not good enough but genus might be possible to know I am simply lost. Thanks for whatever input
... the wrinkles on the genital capsula: other cases are noticed, e.g. Chrysura pseudodichroa Linsenmaier (see the pictures in Arens W., 2001: Revision der Arten der Chrysis dichroa-Gruppe ...
Valdieri, Alpi Marittimi. At first I thought it was one I had before, Chrysis analis but the red patch on the back is different. May be they are two different species. 1, 3 and 4 are maybe the same. Sorry if it is confusing