Chrysis persica Radoczkowsky, 1881

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 : 35-36

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis persica Radoczkowsky, 1881 Plate 31

Chrysis persica Radoczkowsky 1881: v.

Type locality.

"Persia, mons Demavend".

Lectotype

♀ (here designed) [box 60]: golden rounded label // Pers Mlok [printed] [orange label] // Demabend [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // Chrysogona pumila Klug ( assimilis Dhlb.) [handwritten by Mocsáry] // Chrysis Persica exempl [...]gate typique, on a decrib d’apres cet exemplars [handwritten, partly unreadable].

Paralectotype

1♀ [box 60]: golden rounded label // Pers Mlok [printed] [orange label] // Demabend [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // 53 [printed] // persica [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // Chrysogona pumila Klug ( assimilis Spin.) [handwritten by Mocsary].

Remarks.

After Mocsáry’s monograph ( 1889: 183), Chrysis persica was always considered as a synonym of Chrysogona pumila Klug. Linsenmaier (1959: 171) revalidated the taxon at first, but after a few years he changed his interpretation and placed Chrysis persica again in synonymy with Chrysogona pumila ( Linsenmaier 1987: 155). Since one of the two syntypes is seriously damaged, we here designate the lectotype of Chrysis persica and confirm that it is synonym of Chrysogona pumila Klug, 1845 (= Chrysogona pumila sensu Linsenmaier (1987)); the case is discussed in detail in Rosa and Xu (2015). The lectotype lacks some flagellomeres (3-11) from the left antenna, some tarsi on the left fore-leg; head and propleurae are partially separated from the rest of the body.

Current status.

Chrysidea pumila (Klug, 1845) (synonymised by Linsenmaier 1987; transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991).