WOW and SuperWOW
Fantastic pictures!
I really would like to examine at least one male. Could you collect also some females?
This time I'm not sure about the ID.
There are not many species in Europe with this features.
The most common is
Chrysis bicolor Lepeletier.
Then we have
Chrysis illigeri Wesmael and
Chrysis caspiensis Linsenmaier.
This specimen seems a mix of the tree species. Colour and genital capsula are more related with
bicolor, thorax punctuation with
illigeri and
caspiensis, teeth of the propodeum with
bicolor and
caspiensis.
Basically nobody knows
caspiensis, described by Linsenmaier on 2 specimens from Austria and Russia. This species has been always confused with
bicolor.
I think that this could be a colour variation of
helleni, but I have to compare it with the type (the genital capsula of the type is unfortunately broken).
I hope to meet you at Entomodena the next September, so we can examine this case.
Ciao
Paolo