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Unknown cuckoo wasp - Chrysis provancheri - male

Unknown cuckoo wasp - Chrysis provancheri - Male
Anticosti Island, Minganie County, Quebec, Canada
July 10, 2007
Size: 5.4 mm
I'm a little bit confuse with the Chrysididae; with the key in "BOHART (1980) A Generic Synopsis of the Chrysididae of America North of Mexico", I get Ceratochrysis, but I'm not convinced.

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Moved
Moved from Chrysidini.
This can only be a male of Chrysis provancheri. There are very few cuckoo wasps in N-America with this color combination and therefore is is possible to identify with confidence.

I don't remember which characters are used for separating genera in the key you used. Possibly the shape of the end of abdomen was used. In this case the four teeth at the end of abdomen are not well developed and especially the lateral ones might look like just an undulation. It is also so beacuse it is a male.

Cheers!

 
Thanks!
Great, thanks for the identification! Effectively, they use the teeth at the end of the abdomen and indeed, I interprete them as undulation on this specimen. That explain the confusion!

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