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Hi Jerome,
nice, I would like to see pictures of the other species you met there.
C.cortii I saw only once this year and I only could get a miserable "documentation-shot",
but: it's still better than nothing...
All the best Paul

... 12 to 18 juni 2017 & during this week, we found new station of C. cortii : this species like nice stone wall, with cavities & interstices ... me & my friend found a big Chrysura (rufiventris), C. cf candens, Chrysis cf varidens, C. graelsi species group. These walls were habited by ...

Hum, between 1 and 2 meters.

Right!

I bet that you collect them mostly at the base of the walls, usually from ground level to 1 meter?
Is it right?

Another picture (Lot, south of France) : it looks like the "environment" where I found cortii : old walls in rocks, with sands or clay between rocks (Miscophus nest between rocks), in the villages (when there are many old houses in rocks or old walls).

Hi Jerome,

super pictures and super interesting species.
Even if somewhere abundant in S France, it is always difficult to find it.

For sure that Miscophus is the host. It was already registered as parasitoid of Miscophus bicolor and M. niger (Linsenmaier 1959).

... on old stone walls of houses. I seen no many species, only this small Chrysis. For me it is C. cortii Linsenmaier, 1951, and I seen always small digger wasps Miscophus sp (Crabronidae), ...