Hedychridium zelleri
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Hedychridium
Name
Hedychridium zelleri (Dahlbom, 1845) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hedychrum Dahlbom, 1845: 2.
- Hedychridium zelleri: du Buysson (in André) 1892: 183.
Diagnosis
Length 2–4 mm. The species differs from other species of Hedychridium by its smaller size and almost completely green or bluish body, which occasionally has weak golden reflections dorsally on the mesosoma. The tarsi are pale brown. Exceptionally small and greenish males of Hedychridium ardens can resemble Hedychridium zelleri, but they have sparser and coarser punctation dorsally on the mesosoma.
Distribution
Finland. Rare. – West Palearctic: northern and central Europe (Linsenmaier 1959[1]).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated sandy areas, usually near seashore. Adults are occasionally found on flowers. Flight period: late June to early August. Host: species of Miscophus Jurine (Crabronidae) (Müller 1918[2], Saure 1998[3], our own obs.). In central Europe, possibly also Diodontus tristis (Vander Linden) and Diodontus minutus (Fabricius) (Jacobs and Kornmilch 2007[4]).
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.
- ↑ Müller M (1918) Über seltene märkische Bienen und Wespen in ihren Beziehungen zur heimischen Scholle. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Dresden, 1918: 113–132.
- ↑ Saure C (1998) Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen zur Wirtsbindung einiger Goldwespenarten im nordostdeutschen Raum (Hymenoptera: Chrysidididae: Chrysidinae). Bembix 10: 15–18.
- ↑ Jacobs H, Kornmilch J (2007) Die Goldwespen Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 51: 73–93.
