Chrysura hirsuta (Gerstaecker 1869)
- Dataset
- Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Chrysididae
- genus
- Chrysura
- species
- Chrysura hirsuta
discussion
Remarks. The species has been reported from all countries of the studied area, except Denmark. However, the record from Latvia (Rosa & Soon 2004) is doubtful. The record of “ Chrysis regia ” (= Hedychrum nobile) from Kurland (= Courland = western Latvia) by Kawall (1855: 261) might actually concern this species, because Osmia nigriventris was observed as its host. The mason bee O. nigriventris is one of the main hosts of C. hirsuta in the Nordic and Baltic countries (see e. g. Trautmann 1927), and it is not known as a host of Hedychrum. No specimens of C. hirsuta have been found in LMSZ in Riga. In the Nordic literature, C. hirsuta was separated from C. radians only in the 1870 s, and therefore older records of C. radians (= C. bicolor) can represent either species. As the distribution of C. radians is restricted in Fennoscandia to southern Sweden and Norway, old records of C. radians (= C. bicolor) from Finland (Dahlbom 1829, Woldstedt 1875), Russian Fennoscandia (Woldstedt 1875), Swedish (?) Lapland (Dahlbom 1854) and Levangerfjord in Norway (Dahlbom 1854), most likely represent C. hirsuta. Siebke (1880) and Strand (1898) reported C. bicolor from Norway probably based on Dahlbom’s record from Levangerfjord, so these records should also refer to C. hirsuta.
distribution
Distribution. Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia. — Transpalearctic: from West Europe to China, Korea and Japan (Linsenmaier 1959).
Name
- Homonyms
- Chrysura hirsuta (Gerstaecker 1869)