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Genus Holopyga

Metallic Fly - Holopyga Very small Cuckoo wasp... - Holopyga Holopyga Shiny Green Bee/Wasp - Holopyga Cuckoo Wasp? - Holopyga Sweat Bee or Cuckoo Wasp - Holopyga Possibly Genus Chrysura - Holopyga Holopyga ventralis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)
Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)
Subfamily Chrysidinae
Tribe Elampini
Genus Holopyga
Explanation of Names
Holopyga Dahlbom 1845
Numbers
6 spp. in our area, ~90 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
all zoogeographic regions, the majority in the Palaearctic(1)
Food
hosts: ground-nesting sphecid wasps(1)
Internet References
Taxon page [data from(1)]
Works Cited
1.The chrysidid wasps of the world
Kimsey L.S., Bohart R.M. 1990. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.