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... scutellum is a problem for me : I have a specimen with these reflects). Chrysis bicolor/illigeri I think (I have difficulties for separate these 2 species). Chrysis group ...

And is this Chrysis bicolor?
6mm

Hi Paolo, thank you again! That's what I thought when I saw the last one. But I'm not so firm with them. The first one made me hope a little bit. Is it possible that both species live in the same area? Also from a different location with sand on the ground I'm not sure if really all specimen I saw b...

They look like Chrysis illigeri.

The first one is a male, but the colouration is really unusual.
That's why I was interested in checking that specimen.

Ciao!

Hi Paolo, oh, I was out hunting by my new cam... A few hours ago I was in that area again and saw some specimen, but... I'll try to get better pics next time. ;) One of them was quite big (7-8mm) compared to the others I saw and I tried to get a pic from the distance. I was very surprised how good t...

please tell me that you collected this specimen!

... with the ones I shot this year from several species which belong to Chrysis illigeri. I read in Linsenmaier (Die Goldwespen der Schweiz) that C. bicolor has a line in the middle of the last tergite. Also the shape of the apical section ...

... Fraxinus excelsior, etc.). Other species found in the same station : Chrysis analis (abundant !), bicolor/illigeri, Hedychridium roseum roseum, Pseudomalus auratus. Sphecid wasps found in the ...

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).

... the ground, in sandy soils areas (France, Ile de France) : 2 captured Chrysis bicolor, while nothing flew. At the beginning, I had determined them as C. illigeri (but by ...