Chrysis.net Forum

Hi
I'm just an amateur that could be able? (I think!) to identify, yesterday, this beautiful wasp through your's check list. I suppose that i'm correct but because this little wasp is still not registered on portuguese database Naturdata, i tried other DB, your's in this case and i think it was fruitfull.
It was fotographed at North of Portugal (Maia,16 km north of Porto) at 15/Ago/2012, a bit far-north outside the generic range that you show on this specie's file. Any way, it was by chance because i was photographing the other one you see and not this one ..so it was necessary to make a zoom on this photo and on another one. Thanks; and sure, if i made a mistake, please correct me. The photographs have integrated GPS coordinates information.
A generic photo:


After the zoom on photo#1 and #2:



Thanks
Carlos M. Silva, Portugal, Maia (Porto)

Bienvenido, Carlos!

Yes, it is a Chrysis semicincta Lepeletier, 1806. It seems to be a male.

The species is well known from the Iberian Peninsula - and beyond. Try to investigate the reason why Naturdata does not report such record: maybe you can contact them.

Gian

Hi Gian Luca and much thanks.
Yes, i already sent it for Naturdata where i put much of what i found/photograph.
Probably the record list of species still miss some.
Thank you again. And it was a pleasure to see your's site and found what nature has been able to do all these millions of years.
Thanks.
Carlos M. M. Silva (Maia, Porto), Portugal

Hi Carlos,

if you need more distributional data, you can check:

www.faunaeur.org

It's the official European website. Even if some data are missing, it is still a good starting point for the distribution of the Hymenoptera in Europe.

Cheers
Paolo

CarlosMMSilva wrote:And it was a pleasure to see your's site and found what nature has been able to do all these millions of years.

Nice words, Carlos. Thank you very much.