Hedychridium caputaureum
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Hedychridium
Name
Hedychridium caputaureum Trautmann & Trautmann, 1919 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hedychridium roseum var. caputaureum Trautmann & Trautmann, 1919: 35.
- Hedychridium chloropygum ssp. spatium Linsenmaier, 1959: 59.
- Hedychridium caputaureum: Niehuis 2001[1]: 121.
- Hedychridium chloropygum of authors, not du Buysson, 1888.
Diagnosis
Length 5–7 mm. Together with Hedychridium roseum this species is easily differentiated from other species of the genus by its non-metallic red or orange metasoma. The head and mesosoma are mainly green or blue, but as opposed to Hedychridium roseum, the vertex, pronotum and lateral fields of the mesoscutum have coppery red colour or reflections. This coppery colour is sometimes only weakly visible. The metasoma often has weak purple reflections posteriorly. Especially in the males, the punctation of T3 and T2 is usually coarser compared to Hedychridium roseum.
Distribution
Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden. Rare. – West Palearctic: Europe and western Asia (Linsenmaier 1997[2]).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated sandy areas, dry meadows. Adults visit flowers of Apiaceae (Kusdas and Turner 1955[3]). Flight period: mid-June to late August. Host: Astata minor (Kohl) (Crabronidae) (Linsenmaier 1968[4], Saure 1998[5], our own obs.).
Remarks
Hedychridium caputaureum was recently considered to be a central and northern European subspecies of Hedychridium chloropygum (Arens 2010[6]). However, as these taxa are both well characterised and have partially overlapping distribution areas, we treat them as separate species following Paukkunen et al. (2014)[7].
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
Other References
- ↑ Niehuis O (2001) Chrysididae. In: Dathe H Taeger A Blank S (Eds) Entomofauna Germanica 4. Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, Beiheft 7: 119–123.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1997) Die Goldwespen der Schweiz. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Natur-Museum Luzern 9: 1–139.
- ↑ Kusdas K, Turner J (1955) Beitrag zur Insektenfauna der Provinz Udine (Oberitalien). Atti del 1. Convegno friulano di Scienze Naturali, 4–5 settembre 1955, Udine, 273–314.
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1968) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera), Zweiter Nachtrag. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 41: 1–144.
- ↑ Saure C (1998) Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen zur Wirtsbindung einiger Goldwespenarten im nordostdeutschen Raum (Hymenoptera: Chrysidididae: Chrysidinae). Bembix 10: 15–18.
- ↑ Arens W (2010) Revision der Hedychridium roseum-Gruppe in Kleinasien (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), mit Neubewertung zahlreicher europäischer Taxa und Beschreibung zweier neuer Arten. Linzer biologische Beiträge 42: 401–458.
- ↑ 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
