Spinolia unicolor
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Spinolia
Name
Spinolia unicolor (Dahlbom, 1831) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chrysis unicolor Dahlbom, 1831: 32.
- Spinolia unicolor: du Buysson (in André) 1893: 244.
Diagnosis
Length 4–6 mm. The species is characterised by the entirely blue, greenish or violet-blue body, and the forewing radial sector vein, which ends remote from the wing margin (Fig. 76). The T3 is posteriorly edentate and has a small tooth anteriorly.
Distribution
Denmark, Latvia, Sweden. Very rare. – Trans-Palearctic: from western Europe to Mongolia (Linsenmaier 1959[1]).
Biology
Habitat: xerothermic sparsely vegetated sandy areas, often close to the seashore. Adults occasionally visit flowers of Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Rosaceae (Trautmann 1927[2], Benno 1950[3], Linsenmaier 1959[1]). Flight period: late June to mid-August. Host: Pterocheilus phaleratus (Panzer) (Vespidae: Eumeninae) (Erlandsson 1968[4], Sörensson and Cederberg 2010[5]).
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linsenmaier W (1959) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Brücksichtigung der europäischen Spezies. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 32: 1–232.
- ↑ Trautmann W (1927) Die Goldwespen Europas. Uschman, Weimar, 194 pp.
- ↑ Benno P (1950) De Nederladse Goudwespen en haar verspreiding (Hym. Chrysididae, Cleptidae). Publicaties van het Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg 3: 9–48.
- ↑ Erlandsson S (1968) The occurrence of the solitary wasp Pterochilus phaleratus Panz. in the Scandinavian countries (Hym. Eumenidae). Entomologisk Tidskrift 89: 173–176.
- ↑ Sörensson M, Cederberg B (2010) Spinolia unicolor, azurguldstekel. – Artfaktablad. http://www.artfakta.se/Artfaktablad/Spinolia_Unicolor_102642.pdf [accessed 1 April 2015]
