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Hello, I found this Chrysis on the littoral, Northern France (Close Le Havre). My guess is that could be Chrysis ignita s.s. ? Thanks !

Yes, it could potentially be Chrysis ignita s.s., but I would like the apical teeth to be even more pointed and drawn out, the sternites to be greener (although it's a living specimen, so gold-green could be 'correct'), and the metasoma to bulge a bit more and not be so parallel sided for me to really confirm it. A view of the punctation on the middle of tergite 2 & 3 would also help.
It certainly has the long white hairs of ignita, but ID'ing anything but extremely obvious specimens from photographs is often not possible.

Thanks for your time Alex. I see, it is even more complicated than I thought..; !

Here are 2 more pictures it this can help...

the abdomen strikes me more as C. impressa or C. schencki and the species close to them

Ok !