Alex wrote:It's not a terrible picture, sadly slightly out of focus, which isn't strange - "simply" getting a shot of a live chrysidid in nature is hard enough, getting a somewhat good one is very hard!
It's a female Chrysura sp., in the cuprea-group, while it is usually C. cuprea in Europe, tergite 3 on this individual looks extremely pointed (although the shape of T3 varies quite a lot in some species), and the date (late summer, as opposed to early spring that's usual for C. cuprea) is quite strange. I wonder if this could be Chrysura oraniensis porphyrea? But these characters I mentioned are not discussed as any distinguishing features by Linsenmaier 1959, so perhaps it's a simply a late observation of cuprea?
I'm sure Paolo will be able to tell you more, he is from Italy after all
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