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Cuckoo Wasp, blue and green

Cuckoo Wasp, blue and green
North Judson, Starke County, Indiana, USA
May 26, 2017
About the size of a small sweat bee, and very quick and energetic. Unfortunately I was not able to get a good photo of the tail of the abdomen, because the wings were covering it. In a mostly native sand prairie garden with, at this early date, only limited bee activity. To me it looked similar to some in genus Chrysis, particularly those in the ignata species group, as bewildering as it is dazzling.

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Moved from Chrysidinae.

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