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Thew genal distance looks a bit too long for that species, I would suggest Chrysis illigeri female instead

This Chrysis spec. todyay, 01-08-2020 on a wooden post. Location: The Netherlands, southern part area: new housing estate, nature playground, lots of wooden posts and wooden playground equipment, abundance of wild flowers. Size: ...

... of Parnopes and Bembix (+ other species as Hedychridium, Hedychrum, Chrysis bicolor, etc, etc). Search coasts or old alluvial valleys, with alluvial deposits. (look the ...

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 ... but more austriaca), Spintharina versicolor, Chrysidea, and many Chrysis (bicolor, germari, succincta, equestris, sexdentata, indigotea, chrysostigma, ...

Hi All,

yes, Jerome is right, it's the male of Chrysis bicolor, a quite common species in that area.

... cleptoparasits of Megachilidae (Osmiini) which nesting in snails shells : Chrysura cuprea, dichroa, trimaculata rufiventris -> Osmia rufohirta, bicolor, aurulenta, (spinulosa ? ). Some Eumeninae (Leptochilus duplicatus, Euodynerus spp) are nesting in shells too, but I don't know if Chrysidids ...

Hi Paolo, Thanks a lot! I was thinking that the shown specimen could belong to C. bicolor, cause Linsenmaier wrote in his book "Die Goldwespen der Schweiz" Page 90, that males of C. illigeri don't show this middle-line on the last tergit. Anyway, I've added ...

Hi Paul,

I would say that this is a male of Chrysis illigeri, because of the thoracic colour.
In C. bicolor, the red mesoscutum is usually not so contrasting see the pictures attached.

Hello, I think it is a Chrysis of succincta group (bicolor or illigeri) but for ID, we need a good view of head (of profil, for the malar space : big in illigeri, ...

Not one any idea?