Chrysura Explained
Chrysura is a genus of cuckoo wasps which parasitize megachilid bees. There are 117 species in Chrysura, all but 11 of which are found in the Palaearctic,[1] making it the third largest genus in the family.[2] The genus was described by Dahlbom in 1845, and the type species for the genus is Chrysura austriaca.[3]
Selected species
Species within this genus include:[4]
- Chrysura arcadiae (Arens, 2001)
- Chrysura auropicta (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura austriaca (Fabricius, 1804)
- Chrysura baccha (Balthasar, 1953)
- Chrysura candens (Germar, 1817)
- Chrysura ciliciensis (Mocsáry, 1914)
- Chrysura circe (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura cuprea (Rossi, 1790)
- Chrysura declinanalis (Linsenmaier, 1968)
- Chrysura dichroa (Dahlbom, 1854)
- Chrysura dichropsis (R. du Buysson, 1894)
- Chrysura erigone (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura fernandezi (Linsenmaier, 1993)
- Chrysura filiformis (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura foveatidorsa (Linsenmaier, 1968)
- Chrysura graja (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura hirsuta (Gerstaecker, 1869)
- Chrysura hybrida (Lepeletier, 1806)
- Chrysura ignifrons (Brullé, 1832)
- Chrysura isabella (Trautmann, 1926)
- Chrysura judith (Balthasar, 1953)
- Chrysura krueperi (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura laconiae (Arens, 2001)
- Chrysura laevigata (Abeille de Perrin, 1879)
- Chrysura laodamia (R. du Buysson, 1900)
- Chrysura lydiae (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura magrettii (Du Buysson, 1890)
- Chrysura mistrasensis (Linsenmaier, 1968)
- Chrysura moreae (Arens, 2001)
- Chrysura oraniensis (Lucas, 1849)
- Chrysura pelopaeicida (R. du Buysson, 1887)
- Chrysura pseudodichroa (Linsenmaier, 1959)
- Chrysura purpureifrons (Abeille de Perrin, 1878)
- Chrysura pyrogaster (Brullé, 1832)
- Chrysura radians (Harris, 1776)
- Chrysura refulgens (Spinola, 1806)
- Chrysura rufiventris (Dahlbom, 1854)
- Chrysura simplex (Dahlbom, 1854)
- Chrysura simulacra (Linsenmaier, 1959)
- Chrysura simuldichroa (Linsenmaier, 1969)
- Chrysura smyrnensis (Mocsáry, 1889)
- Chrysura sulcata (Dahlbom, 1845)
- Chrysura trimaculata (Förster, 1853)
- Chrysura varicornis (Spinola, 1838)
Notes and References
- Paolo . Rosa . Hosseinali . Lotfalizadeh . A new species-group of Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), with description of Ch. baiocchii sp. nov. from Iran . 2013 . Zootaxa . 3737 . 1.
- Kimsey, L.S., Bohart, R.M. 1990. The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.
- Web site: Genus: Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120202083556/http://www.chrysis.net/database/genus/Chrysura.php . dead . February 2, 2012 . 17 November 2013 .
- https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id235875/ Biolib
