Chrysis terminata Dahlbom, 1854

Paukkunen, Juho, Berg, Alexander, Soon, Villu, Odegaard, Frode & Rosa, Paolo, 2015, An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 548, pp. 1-116 : 79-80

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.548.6164

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D5D7B51E-5AC6-460D-9B3C-7584E46F9B3F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/76A0FFEC-9693-D0D6-7008-E462BC09297E

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scientific name

Chrysis terminata Dahlbom, 1854
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis terminata Dahlbom, 1854 Figs 153, 154

Chrysis terminata Dahlbom, 1854: 261.

Chrysis ignita form A sensu Linsenmaier 1959: 156.

Diagnosis.

Length 6-10 mm. The species resembles closely Chrysis ignita by its colour, structure and habitus. However, the frontal carina has medially four tooth-like tubercles in both sexes (Figs 153, 154), the mesosoma is more homogeneously blue without extensive green areas on the pronotum and the mesoscutellum, and the body is slightly more elongate with more parallel sides.

Distribution.

Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden. Relatively common (especially in south-eastern Sweden, Öland and Gotland). - West Palearctic: from western Europe to central Asia ( Linsenmaier 1997).

Biology.

Habitat: forest margins, clearings and gardens with sun-exposed dead wood, but also sparsely vegetated sandy areas. Flight period: late April to early August. The flight begins earlier than in other species of the Chrysis ignita group. Host: Ancistrocerus nigricornis (Curtis) ( Vespidae ) (van Lith 1954, Linsenmaier 1959, our own obs.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Masaridae

Genus

Chrysis