🦋 Family

Chrysididae

10 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Chrysididae

Chrysis angolensis Radoszkowski, 1881

Chrysis angolensis is a widespread cuckoo wasp that parasitizes mud dauber nests, recently introduced to French Polynesia.

Chrysis viridula Linnaeus, 1761

Chrysis viridula is a Western Palearctic cuckoo wasp first described in 1761, a parasitoid of eumenid wasps with a range from Europe to North Africa.

Chrysis fulgida Linnaeus, 1761

Chrysis fulgida is a brightly colored metallic Palearctic cuckoo wasp with distinct colored body segments.

Chrysis scutellaris Fabricius, 1794

Chrysis scutellaris is a common wasp found in Europe and North Africa that lives in warm open sandy areas.

Chrysura refulgens (Spinola, 1806)

Chrysura refulgens is a large colorful wasp species found across much of Europe, Northeast areas and North Africa.

Chrysura cuprea (Rossi, 1790)

Chrysura cuprea is an uncommon metallic wasp found in Central/Southern Europe and North Africa, preferring warm, sparse-vegetation habitats.

Chrysura austriaca (Fabricius, 1804)

Chrysura austriaca is a small parasitic wasp species with distinct coloration found across the Trans-Paleartic region.

Stilbum cyanurum (Förster, 1771)

Stilbum cyanurum is a widespread, colour-variable species with a wide geographic distribution across multiple global regions.

Holopyga fastuosa generosa (Förster, 1853)

Holopyga fastuosa is a cuckoo wasp species, with its subspecies H. f. generosa distributed across parts of Europe, North Africa, and western Asia.

Hedychrum rutilans Dahlbom, 1854

Hedychrum rutilans is a cuckoo wasp species in Chrysididae found in parts of Europe and North Africa, with characteristic metallic coloration that differs between males and females.

Related Families

Formicidae 366 species Apidae 239 species Megachilidae 95 species Eumenidae 71 species Vespidae 67 species Andrenidae 59 species Crabronidae 57 species Halictidae 45 species

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