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Cuckoo wasp

Chrysididae (family)

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Field Notes

Description:

Body metallic blue-green, small reddish part at the end.
Coarse sculpturing (many pits on the surface).

Notes:

I found this little fella lying on the stairs.
Not been able to ID it down to species yet :/

Reference Links:

Animal Pictures Archive: Animal Photo Album - Chrysis

Species ID Suggestions

Cuckoo Wasp

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Christiane
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Comments (6)
Christiane
I have moved this spotting to Arthropods for you :-) Amazing colors!!
LauraMaria
Gorgeous! My best guess is some kind of cuckoo wasp... the only cuckoo wasp that I actually know by name is the ruby-tailed wasp, but this doesn't enough red in the abdomen to be one. So some other kind I would bet!
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PublishedApril 22, 2011

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