Chrysis caucasica Radoszkovsky, 1877

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 11-12

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis caucasica Radoszkovsky, 1877

Chrysis Caucasica Radoszkovsky 1877 (1876): 108.

Type locality.

“Envoyé du Caucase par Mr. Mlokosiewitz".

Syntype

1♀ [box 62]: golden rounded label // Caucasus [printed] // 30 [printed] // caucasica [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // sexdentata Chr caucasica R. [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Syntype

1♀ [box 62]: Caucasus [printed].

Remarks.

Mocsáry (1889: 537) synonymised it with Chrysis sexdentata Christ, 1791. Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 475) placed Chrysis caucasica and Chrysis sexdentata in synonymy with Chrysis variegata Olivier, 1791. All the authors before Kimsey and Bohart (1991) (e.g. Mocsáry 1889: 597; Dalla Torre 1892: 87; Bischoff 1913: 29; Trautmann 1927: 86) and after (e.g. Linsenmaier 1997: 286; Rosa 2005: 90, Strumia 1995), with the only exception of Mingo (1994), considered Chrysis variegata as a synonym of Euchroeus purpuratus (Fabricius, 1787). For detailed considerations see Linsenmaier (1997) and Rosa (2005). It belongs to the Chrysis smaragdula group sensu Kimsey and Bohart (1991).

Current status.

Chrysis sexdentata Christ, 1791 (synonymised by Mocsáry 1889).