Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chrysis ignita?
Posted by Jeroen K on 13-08-2010 14:36
#1
Found it last week on the leaves of the butterfly-bush (
Buddleja davidii) in my garden, Kapellen, Belgium. Is it
Chrysis ignita, another
Chrysis species or is it impossible to tell? Thanks in advance!
Posted by conopid on 13-08-2010 16:21
#2
Impossible to tell. Even with a specimen it is extremely difficult to tell C ignita apart from three or four closely related species.
Posted by ChrisR on 13-08-2010 17:11
#3
I agree with Nigel - I sent a large number of specimens that I had guessed were all
C.ignita to a specialist called Villu Soon in Estonia. I don't think there were any
ignita amongst them but it did turn up some very nice, more unusual species :)
Villu would be very interested to receive any chrysidid wasps from anywhere in the world :)
Posted by Jeroen K on 13-08-2010 18:20
#4
OK, thanks. Next time I find one I will send it to him.
Posted by cthirion on 13-08-2010 18:55
#5
http://chrysis.net/chrysis/gallery/photo.php?beg=12
I rather do not think that it is Chrysis, Omalus gold Pseudomalus perhaps auratus?
Posted by Jeroen K on 15-08-2010 16:27
#6
OK, thanks a lot Camille! What charachteristics make you think this is
Pseudomalus rather than
Chrysis?