Hedychrum nobile is a species of cuckoo wasps (insect in the family Chrysididae).Biolib
Subspecies Hedychrum nobile antigai R. du Buysson, 1896 Hedychrum nobile nobile (Scopoli, 1763)
Description Hedychrum nobile can reach a length of . Head, scutellum, post scutellum and median segment are blue or green, pronotum, mesonotum and the abdomen are golden purple.
Ecology These wasps fly from mid-June to September. Usually they prefer sandy habitats and rocky slopes. The main host species of this parasitic wasp is Cerceris arenaria.
Distribution This species can be found in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, in the eastern Palearctic realm and in North Africa.Fauna europaeaChrysis.net
Bibliography Heiko Bellmann: Bienen, Wespen, Ameisen. Hautflügler Mitteleuropas. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 1995, . Rolf Witt: Wespen. Beobachten, Bestimmen. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, .
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