Chrysura

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] The genus was described by Dahlbom in 1845, and the type species for the genus is Chrysura austriaca.[2] It is the third largest genus in the family Chrysididae.[3]

Chrysura
Chrysura refulgens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Chrysididae
Tribe: Chrysidini
Genus: Chrysura
Dahlbom, 1845
Type species
Chrysura austriaca
(Fabricius, 1804)

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 (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 (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 (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)

References
  1. Rosa, Paolo; Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali (2013). "A new species-group of Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), with description of Ch. baiocchii sp. nov. from Iran". Zootaxa. 3737 (1).
  2. "Genus: Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845". Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  3. Kimsey, L.S., Bohart, R.M. 1990. The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.
  4. Biolib
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