Species Account for Chrysis viridula
Chrysis viridula Linnaeus, 1761
a cuckoo wasp
Aculeata: Chrysididae
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Taxonomic group: bees and wasps (Aculeata) - County data
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Essex RDB: Listed
Threat: Essex Vulnerable
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parasite on Odynerus
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This ruby tailed wasp is a parasitoid on the eumenid wasps Odynerus spinipes and O. melanocephalus (Morgan, 1984). In Essex the species is very rare, with a good population in the Chafford Hundred area of Thurrock, but otherwise known from just a single record in north-east Essex. References
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