Chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)—Parasites of eumenine wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Eumeninae) in Crimea
Journal: Entomological Review
Year: 2015

Chrysidid wasps can be considered the most abundant and sometimes the most important enemies of eumenine wasps. We investigated the nesting biology of 36 species of Eumeninae in Crimea (47% of the Crimean fauna) in 2002–2013. As a result we found 15 species of chrysidid wasps (Chrysis cylindrica, Ch. rutilans, Ch. splendidula, Ch. graelsii, Ch. valesiana, Ch. brevitarsis, Ch. ignita, Ch. impressa, Ch. longula, Ch. pseudobrevitarsis, Ch. ruddii, Ch. sexdentata, Ch. ambigua, Ch. taczanovskii, and