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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Cuckoo Wasps (Chrysididae) » Chrysidinae » Elampini » Holopyga
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Green metalic bee to ID. - Holopyga
Copyright © 2006 Kildale

Green metalic bee to ID. - Holopyga
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
August 10, 2006
Managed to get a few shots of this green bee. Any info would be great, thanks.

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Green metalic bee to ID. - Holopyga Green metalic bee to ID. - Holopyga
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Contributed by Kildale on 10 August, 2006 - 5:20pm
Last updated 1 August, 2010 - 9:50am

Moved
Moved from Elampini.
… v belov, 1 August, 2010 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Elampinae.
… Chuck Entz, 28 June, 2007 - 7:01am login or register to post comments

Moved...
to subfamily page for now.
… Nick Fensler, 11 August, 2006 - 9:20pm login or register to post comments

No bee
This is a cuckoo wasp or Chrysididae. From the compact body it looks like a member of the subfamily Elampinae.
… Martin Hauser, 10 August, 2006 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Holopyga
This specimen belongs to the genus Holopyga (tribe Elampini), no doubt.
… Villu Soon, 30 July, 2010 - 10:58am login or register to post comments

Chrysidid wasp:-)
This must be maddening for the uninitiated! It is so easy to confuse wasps in the family Chrysididae with bees in the family Halictidae. Once you get familiar with them, though, they are very easy to tell apart. This one looks to be in the subfamily Elampinae (short, blunt abdomen, no teeth on the hind edge of abdomen).
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 August, 2006 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Wasp
Thank you all for the correct ID. I'm definately one of the uninitiated when it comes to bugs etc. But I like to photograph them.
… Kildale, 10 August, 2006 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Yes, it is maddening. "[N]o teeth on the hind end of the abdomen" elicits yet another Ahhhhhhhhhh!
… Ron Hemberger, 10 August, 2006 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Teeth on the hind end of the abdomen...
Are typical for subfamily Chrysidinae, i.e. Chrysis and related genera. A rounded, or faintly notched apex of abdomen is the hallmark for Elampinae, together with a somewhat more compact outline.
… Richard Vernier, 11 August, 2006 - 8:32am login or register to post comments

 
Ohhhh!
Thanks for the clarification, Richard.
… Ron Hemberger, 11 August, 2006 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

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