Omalus biaccinctus

Omalus biaccinctus is a species of cuckoo wasps belonging to the family Chrysididae.

Distribution and habitat
This species is present in most of Europe (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands), in the eastern Palearctic realm, and in the Near East. These wasps occur in musk forests.

Description
Omalus biaccinctus can reach a body length of about 4 mm. In these small wasps head, pronotum and mesonotum are unpunctuated but vaguely rough. The face is green-blue and antennae are brown, with the first two segments green. The thorax is blue-indigo and very convex. The abdomen is shiny golden-red, subglobular and wider than the fore-body. Wings are quite smoky in the rear half. Legs are blue-green and tarsi reddish-brown, but the first section is green.

Biology
These wasps are nesting parasites of solitary wasps Passaloecus species. This species has also been reported laying eggs inside living aphids, later preyed by aphid-hunting crabronids. In such a way O. biaccinctus through the aphids can enter in the nest of the crabronid in order to lay its eggs.