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... and in our street, I have taken photos of the following species: 1. Chrysis viridula ? 2. Chrysis analis ? 3. Omalus aeneus ? 4. Hedychrum rutilans ? 5. rutilans ? Runs ...

Hi Paolo,
thank you very much. I hade it now under to my stereoskop and viridula is it not.So it is Ch.cingulicornis.
Thank you
Lukas

Hi!

this is not Chrysis pyrrhina
(by the way the correct name is no longer pyrrhina Dahlbom but serena Radoszkowski).
You have 2 options:
- Chrysis viridula
- Chrysis cingulicornis

...hmm...I should contact our mayor...

where do you live?
close to a nuclear-site?

by the way:
the mesoscutum of this added specimen (from the same place)
differs a little bit from the others I saw before. Does this happen often?
All the best Paul

Hi Paolo,

Thanks a lot for your information!
it explains also the look of other animals I saw in former times.
Although it is not really funny for the animals themthelves, these "freaks" look very interesting sometimes.

All the best Paul

Hi Paul, sorry, I have no time for Chrysididae in the last period. It's a common teratology. Sometimes this deformation can even separate the compound eye, so that you see 3 compound eyes instead of 2! You can find them everywhere in the chrysidid body, also on the abdomen, and even in this case seg...

Hi folks,
really no one out there with any idea about this?
all the best Paul

Hi,
in the beginning of July I saw this C. viridula in my home-area.
I'm interested if it is possible to explain where the deformation on the head is coming from.
All the best Paul