Chrysis indigotea
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Chrysis
Name
Chrysis indigotea Dufour & Perris, 1840 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chrysis indigotea Dufour & Perris, 1840: 38.
Diagnosis
Length 6–9 mm. The body is entirely dark blue or violet with greenish reflections. Usually the male is more greenish or lighter blue than the female. The species can be confused with Chrysis iris, but the mesoscutum is medially distinctly darker than laterally (Fig. 156), the punctation of the mesoscutum is denser and the ovipositor is broader (as in Fig. 91). Also the black spots of S2 are smaller and the apical teeth of T3 are more sharply produced (Fig. 82).
Distribution
Sweden. Very rare. Only one specimen is known from Östergötland, collected probably in the late 1840s or early 1850s (leg. A.G. Dahlbom). – West Palearctic: central and southern Europe, northern Africa, Asia Minor (Linsenmaier 1959[1]).
Biology
Habitat: forest margins, clearings and gardens with sun-exposed dead wood (Trautmann 1927[2], 1930[3], Heinrich 1964[4], Brechtel 1986[5], Rosa 2006[6]). Adults occasionally visit flowers of Apiaceae (Trautmann 1927[2], Linsenmaier 1997[7], Rosa 2006[6]). Flight period: June to August. Host: possibly Gymnomerus laevipes (Shuckard) (Vespidae) and/or Ectemnius rubicola (Dufour and Perris) (Crabronidae) (Dufour and Perris 1840[8]).
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
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1959) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Brücksichtigung der europäischen Spezies. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 32: 1–232.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trautmann W (1927) Die Goldwespen Europas. Uschman, Weimar, 194 pp.
- ↑ Trautmann W (1930) Cleptidae & Chrysididae. In: Schmiedeknecht O (Ed.) Die Hymenopteren Nord- und Mitteleuropas. 2 edition. Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 485–508.
- ↑ Heinrich J (1964) Beitrag zur Hymenopteren-fauna des westlichen Unterfranken. 1. Teil, Chrysididae. Nachrihten des Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums der Stad Aschaffenburg 71: 1–28.
- ↑ Brechtel F (1986) Die Stechimmenfauna des Bienwaldes und seiner Randbereiche (Südpfalz) unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Ökologie kunstnestbewohnender Arten. Pollichia-Buch 9: 1–284.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rosa P (2006) I Crisidi della Valle d’Aosta (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 6. St. -Pierre, Aosta, 368 pp.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1997) Die Goldwespen der Schweiz. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Natur-Museum Luzern 9: 1–139.
- ↑ Dufour L, Perris E (1840) Mémoire sur les Insectes Hyménoptères qui nichent dans l’intérieur des tiges sèches de la Ronce. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 9: 5–53.
