Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

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Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby Isidro » 27 Apr 2019 22:35

Pics taken today at Juslibol, Zaragoza, NE Spain, 200 meters over sea, dry gypsy steppes, on flowers of Euphorbia serrata. Chrysidid measures about 10-11 millimeters.
Please help ID!
Thanks!
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby Euchroeus » 28 Apr 2019 12:12

Hi Isidro,

I would say Chrysura refulgens (Spinola)
nice and large species!

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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby Isidro » 28 Apr 2019 20:19

Thanks a lot Paolo! :) Yes it was fairly large :) In the very same plant of Euphorbia I've found other two Chrysididae! But without photos :( One was a bit smaller and th the last abdominal terguite blue, abdomen red and head and thorax blue. But I took only a frontal photo where the abdomen cannot be seen and it flew away :-( And the other was spectacular! Much smaller (maybe 6-7 mm) and totally blue-green, similar to Trichrysis cyanea. But the wind was shaking the plant and I cannot take a decent image of it, only blurry ones before it flew away :(
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby MobiusOne » 24 Jun 2019 16:48

Sure is an impressive specimen! I'm from Belgium, which doesn't really have the same climate as Spain, and when I saw one of these for the first time on a professional trip, I thought that global warming had gone mad and that some crazy tropical insects from the African jungle had arrived all the way to Spain :razz: thanks for the identification and detailed pictures, I'll go to bed smarter than when I left it!
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby Euchroeus » 27 Jun 2019 12:12

:welcome: Oliver :welcome: !
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby MobiusOne » 27 Jun 2019 20:02

Thanks! That forum is fascinating, I think I'll stay for a while!
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby jeromec » 27 Jun 2019 20:43

Chrysura refulgens is a "common" Chrysidid in mediterranean area.
The species is a parasite of big Anthidiini as Rodanthidium septemdentatum (common species) which nest in snails shells, often in calcarous area (garrigue, villages...).

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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby MobiusOne » 30 Jun 2019 21:54

Merci pour l'explication, je ne savais pas qu'elles pouvaient vivre dans les coquilles d'escargots!

Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know they could nest in snail shells!
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Re: Chrysididae from Zaragoza, NE Spain

Postby jeromec » 15 Jul 2019 19:31

Some Chrysididae are 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 parasits their nests.
But the french specialist of Vespidae will give me a Chrysidid which was opened of a snail shell used by an Eumeninae :-)
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