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... metallic areas on abdomen, for example H. roseum bohemicum, H. roseum sudeticum, H. roseum ... the head in dorsal view, however my guess is Hedychridium sculpturatum for the dense punctation ... (in H. chloropygum it is more golden as in H. caputaureum ).

Hi Frank,

Why not !
But I never found any Hedychridium with this colour (as your gratiosum ) and I have not the description of H. roseum nanum.
H. caputaureum has a reddish pronotum (more red than in roseum).

As usual, very nice photos (but I repeat myself) !!

Hi Paul, Your Hedychridium has red metallic abdomen, but mine has metallic ... abdomen) females and males, and some Hedychridium roseum-other species (no metallic reflect or very slight). ... between rossicum and sculpturatum is not easy. For caputaureum/chloropygum/roseum, I think it is the same ...

... This season I saw many specimen of the roseum-group. The pics I add were taken on the same ... the same day and I think that both belong to Hedychridium rossicum.I would be pleased to be corrected ... species, but I'm really not sure. I's not H. caputaureum in my opinion and I guess it's also ...

... of my region, now we have 4 species), and some Hedychridium of the roseum-group... Here 2 pictures of the same specimen : Abdomen ... what is the species, I don't think it is roseum, maybe caputaureum or chloropygum. What do you think ? Jérôme

Hi Paolo, Thanks a lot for your answer! Hedychridium caputaureum I hadn't on the screen. Til now I only know very few localities for that species in our region ...

Hi Paul,

I'm not sure 100%.
It could be also a form of Hedychridium caputaureum, for the evident golden-green face and posterior margin of pronotum.

Ciao!

Hello, I found this small female Elampini, H. roseum group, in a way in the grassland of Chaudanne (Besançon). I think it is Hedychridium roseum roseum (not nanum, not chloropygum, not caputaureum?), but not sure (females valesianum are not metallic ...

... Hedychreides (derivated from Hedychrum ) [m.] Hedychridium (derivated from Hedychrum ). Comment: ... [varietas (feminine) of Hedychridium roseum ]. The name pyga is a feminine noun, which ... incorrect subsequent spelling chloropygum . caputaureum (from caput [LAT, nn.] = head) + ( aureus, ...

Hi Alex! your male belongs to the central-northern European taxon called caputaureum Trautmann & Trautmann. This taxon was considered as a varietas and later subspecies of H. roseum (Rossi). In the last years it was elevated to species rank by some German authors, ...