Holopyga metallica
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Holopyga
Name
Holopyga metallica (Dahlbom, 1854) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hedychrum metallicum Dahlbom, 1854: 68.
- Holopyga curvata of authors, not (Förster, 1853).
- Holopyga fervida of authors, not (Fabricius, 1781).
- Holopyga metallica: Erlandsson 1971[1]: 88.
Diagnosis
Length 5–6 mm. The female is entirely blue or blue-green with golden green reflections on the pronotum, mesoscutum and metasoma. The male is golden green with blue on the metanotum and propodeum. Both sexes resemble the male of Holopyga fervida in colouration, but the punctation of the tergites is finer and sparser (Fig. 50), and the antennal segments are longer in the male (Fig. 52).
Distribution
Finland. Rare. – West Palearctic: only known from Finland and Russian Fennoscandia (Paukkunen et al. 2014[2]).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated coastal dune areas. Most of the specimens have been collected by sweep nets from grasses and by yellow pan traps. Flight period: June to July. Host: Dryudella stigma (Panzer) (Crabronidae) (according to E. Valkeila’s notes).
Taxon Treatment
- Paukkunen, J; Berg, A; Soon, V; Ødegaard, F; Rosa, P; 2015: An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species ZooKeys, (548): 1-116. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Erlandsson S (1971) Catalogus Insectorum Sueciae XIX. Hymenoptera: Aculeata. Entomologisk Tidskrift 22: 87–94.
- ↑ Paukkunen J, Rosa P, Soon V, Johansson N, Ødegaard F (2014) Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Zootaxa 3864: 1–67. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1
