Chrysis viridula Linnaeus 1761: 415. Type?; Sweden (lost?). Olivier 1790: 676, Julin 1792: 126, Billberg 1820: 104, Nylander 1852: 118, Thomson 1870: 107, Woldstedt 1875: 345, Siebke 1880: 74, Borries 1891: 9, Nerén 1892: 102, Strand 1898: 97, Sahlberg 1910: 97, Aurivillius 1911: 11, Hellén 1920: 212, Trautmann 1927: 165, Trautmann 1930: 504, Jansson 1934: 287, Hellén 1935: 8, Jørgensen 1942: 309, Benno 1950: 40, Balthasar 1954: 218, Fahlander 1954: 254, Tjeder 1954: 64, Valkeila 1962: 64, Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 93, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Banaszak 1980: 30, Vikberg 1986b: 68, Nilsson 1988: 97, Nilsson 1991: 82, Doronin 1996: 18, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 45, Valtonen 2003: 25, Soon 2004: 24, 46, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142, Karlsson 2008, Abenius 2009: 59, Franzén & Norén 2009: 40, Allearter.dk 2010, Artsdatabanken 2010, Hansen et al. 2010: 338, Jantunen & Saarinen 2010: 49, Smissen 2010d: 393, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 152, Appelqvist & Lindholm 2012: 16, Hallin 2012, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.
Chrysis bidentata Linnaeus 1767: 947. Type?; Sweden (lost?). Billberg 1820: 104, Dahlbom 1829: 9, Dahlbom 1831: 29, Zetterstedt 1840: 434, Kawall 1864: 302, Adlerz 1900: 162, Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 389.
Tetrachrysis viridula: Jansson 1922: 37.
Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia.—Transpalearctic: from West Europe to Russian Far East, Korea and Japan (Linsenmaier 1997, Kurzenko & Lelej 2007).
Remarks. The species is scarce, but relatively widespread in the Nordic and Baltic countries. It has been classified as vulnerable in Norway (Hansen et al. 2012).