Chrysis iris
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Chrysis
Name
Chrysis iris Christ, 1791 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chrysis iris Christ, 1791: 405.
- Chrysis nitidula of authors, not Fabricius, 1775.
- Chrysis soluta Dahlbom, 1854: 217.
- Chrysis purpurata of authors, not Fabricius, 1787.
Diagnosis
Length 7–13 mm. The body is mostly blue or blue-green, resembling Chrysis indigotea in colouration. The female often has green-golden reflections on the mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and anteriorly on the pronotum. The tergites are posteriorly lighter blue than anteriorly. Compared to Chrysis indigotea, the punctation of the mesoscutum is sparser and the interstices larger, the mesoscutum is medially not distinctly darker than laterally, and the ovipositor is narrower (as in Fig. 92). The black spots of S2 are also larger and the apical teeth of T3 shorter and blunter.
Distribution
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden. Relatively rare. – West Palearctic: Europe (Linsenmaier 1997[1]).
Biology
Habitat: forest margins, clearings and gardens with sun-exposed dead wood. Adults are usually found on walls of old log buildings (barns, sheds etc.), log piles, poles and dead tree trunks (e.g. Populus, Salix, Betula). Flight period: late May to late August. Host: Symmorphus allobrogus (Saussure), Symmorphus crassicornis (Panzer) and Symmorphus murarius (Linnaeus) (Vespidae) (Abeille de Perrin 1878[2], du Buysson 1895[3], Pärn et al. 2014[4], our own obs.).
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 (1997) Die Goldwespen der Schweiz. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Natur-Museum Luzern 9: 1–139.
- ↑ Abeille de Perrin E (1878) Diagnoses de Chrysides nouvelles. Published by the author, Marseille, 6 pp.
- ↑ Buysson R (1891–1896) Les Chrysides. In: André E (Ed.) Species des Hyménoptères d’Europe & d’Algerie. Tome Sixième. Vve Dubosclard, Paris, XII + 13–758 + 64 unnumbered pages + 32 pls. (1891) 1–88, (1892) 89–208, (1893) 209–272, (1894) 273–400, (1895) 401–624, (1896) 625–756 + 1*–22*, (1891–1896) 64 unnumbered pages + 32 pls.
- ↑ Pärn M, Soon V, Vallisoo T, Hovi K, Luig J (2014) Host specificity of the tribe Chrysidini (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) in Estonia ascertained with trap-nesting. European Journal of Entomology 112: 91–99. doi: 10.14411/eje.2015.012
