Brugmoia pellucida Radoszkowski, 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 : 4

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Brugmoia pellucida Radoszkowski, 1877 Plate 1

Brugmoia pellucida Radoszkowski 1877: 26.

Type locality.

"Habitat in desertis Kisil-kum", “Обѣ формы пойманы 10 и 15 мая 1871 г. въ пескахъ Кизилъ-кумъ” [Both specimens collected on the 10th and 15th of May 1871 on the sand of Kisil-kum].

Paralectotype

1♂ [box 62]: golden rounded label // Brugmoia pellucida [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // Кизилъкумъ [printed] // 12. [pink label with red line] // 48 [printed].

Remarks.

Kimsey and Bohart (1991) listed the holotype male in MMU, but the species was described on a syntypic series based on females ("long. 8-9 mm."). We examined the specimen housed in MMU, which it is truly a female bearing the following labels: 10. [printed on pink label with red line] / Кизилъкумъ [printed] / Brugmoia pellucida Rad. [handwritten red label] / 10.V.1869 [handwritten after Radoszkowski]. We designate it as the lectotype of Brugmoia pellucida since the specimen housed in the Radoszkowski collection in ISEA-PAN is a male, and not a female, and it was collected on a different day.

Anyway, we consider the specimen in ISEA-PAN as the second syntype and therefore as the paralectotype, even if two discrepancies are found. The different date (the 12th and not the 15th of May 1971) could be a case of lapsus calami, since the red line is somehow covering the day number. The different sex could be also a case of lapsus calami; indeed, the specimen is bearing the main features listed in the description and the sexual dimorphic characteristics are not so obvious as in other Euchroeus species; Bohart himself ( Kimsey and Bohart 1991) confused the sex of the specimen housed in MMU. Evidence that the specimen in ISEA-PAN is the second syntypes are: it was identified by Radoszkowski as Brugmoia pellucida and not as Euchroeus quadratus , the second Euchroeus collected by Fedtschenko in his journeys ( Radoszkowski 1877); it was collected in the same locality, month and year ( Euchroeus quadratus was collected on Mt. Karak on the 7th of May); no other specimen of Brugmoia pellucida identified by Radoszkowski or collected by Fedtschenko was found in MMU, HNHM, MNHN, MNHU and MSNG. In Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 296), it is listed under the name Brugmoia pellucida Radoszkowski. The generic name Euchroeus Latreille was conserved by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, Opinion 1906).

Current status.

Euchroeus pellucidus (Radoszkowski, 1877) (transferred by du Buysson (in André) 1892: 255).