Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761

Paukkunen, Juho, Berg, Alexander, Soon, Villu, Odegaard, Frode & Rosa, Paolo, 2015, An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 548, pp. 1-116 : 42-44

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Genus Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761 Figs 6, 10, 77-92, 93-101, 102-109, 110-125, 126-137, 138-144, 145-149, 150-164, 165-178, 179, 180-186, 187-195

Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761: 414.

Chrysogona Förster, 1853: 327.

Tetrachrysis Lichtenstein, 1876: 27.

Hexachrysis Lichtenstein, 1876: 27.

Note.

With more than a thousand currently recognised species, Chrysis is the largest and most heterogeneous genus of Chrysididae . It is best defined by a combination of several variable and non-unique characters, such as the closed or nearly closed forewing marginal cell, the usually four- or six-toothed posterior margin of T3, and the usually distinct transverse frontal carina on the frons. Members of the genus parasitise a wide range of solitary wasps and bees in the families Vespidae , Sphecidae , Crabronidae , Megachilidae and Apidae . They are found worldwide, but the vast majority of species is found in the Holarctic and Afrotropical Regions. The European fauna consists of nearly 190 species and numerous subspecies ( Rosa and Soon 2012). Up to now, 35 species have been found in the Nordic and Baltic countries ( Paukkunen et al. 2014). The genus was first formally divided into species-groups by Linsenmaier (1959). Our classification of the species-groups follows Kimsey and Bohart (1991).

Key to Chrysis species of the Nordic and Baltic countries