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Here are 2 specimens for which I struggle.. I would say either C. continentalis or C. insperata/rutilans, what your guess ?

Specimen N°1 (T3 was very dark under daylight) :

Yes I think it is C. splendilula group, differences between both of these species are thin.

Your specimen looks like this one : https://jessica-joachim.com/insectes/hymenopteres/chrysididae/chrysis-insperata-rutilans/

Maybe Paolo has a better global idea about it..

My father caught me this beautiful Chrysis in La Verdière (83560, Var, France) ten days ago with a yellow plate. I think it's something near that Chrysis rutilans ore more probably insperata for the scutum and third tergum blackish, but the shape of apical margin with ...

Ciao Marco,

grazie, bellissime foto

... vorrei farvi vedere la new entry del 2020 nel mio archivio fotografico: Chrysis insperata (id. Maurizio Pavesi) Mai vista prima d'ora, quest'anno, ad Agugliano (AN), ne ho ...

Hi Paul, For the species that you're not found, I think it is Chrysis varidens ? This species is common in mediterranean area, I was very ... are possibles by me (calimorpha group ; viridula group ; splendidula/insperata ; mediata/mediadentata/solida* ; rutiliventris/ruddii, problems in ...

In this subject here I read than it could be insperata too.
So I go to see black marcks on the sternites and genital plate.

Esemplare lungo 5 mm. Dati di raccolta: Marocco, 18 maggio 2017, MEKNES-TAFILALT – Strada P7311 – 7,4 Km a 182° da Ain Leuh, R. Rattu leg. Potrebbe essere insperata o taxon affine?

Così su due piedi direi Chrysis insperata Chevrier

Difficult without specimen.
Chrysis splendidula group, likely C. insperata