Chrysis ignifascia Mocsary , 1893

Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-sen & Xu, Zai-fu, 2017, One new species and three new records of Chrysis Linnaeus from China (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), ZooKeys 669, pp. 65-88 : 66

Chrysis ignifascia Mocsary, 1893 Figs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7A

Chrysis (Holochrysis) ignifascia Mocsáry, 1893: 215. Holotype, ♀, Myanmar (MSNG) (examined). Rosa 2009: 233.

Chrysis (Holochrysis) birmanica Mocsáry, 1893: 214. Holotype, ♂, Myanmar (MSNG) (examined). Rosa 2009: 221. (Synonymised by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 420).

Chrysis (Chrysura) taiwana Tsuneki, 1970: 7. Holotype, ♂, China (OMNH) (examined). Syn. n.

Type material.

Holotype, ♀, MYANMAR [Burma] Palon ( Pegù), L. Fea VIII–IX.[18]87, Chrysis ignifascia , ♀, Mocs. n. sp. <handwritten by Mocsáry >, Typus, C. ignifascia , Mocs., ♀, typus! <handwritten by Mantero> (MSNG). Holotype, ♂, MYANMAR [Burma] Bhamò, Birmania, Fea VIII 1885, Chrysis birmanica , ♂, Mocs. n. sp. <handwritten by Mocsáry >, Typus, C. birmanica , Mocs., ♂, typus! <handwritten by Mantero> (MSNG). Holotype, ♂, [CHINA], Formosa [Taiwan], Pintung Hsien, Hengchun, 2.VIII.1966. leg. K. Tsuneki // Chrysis (Chrysura) taiwana Tsuneki Holotypus <handwritten> (OMNH). Additional material: 1♀, CHINA, Guangdong, Fogang, Guanyinshan, 15-16.IX.2007, leg. Zai-fu Xu, CAP001 (SCAU); 1♀, CHINA, Fujian, Jianning, 8.VI.1959, leg. Gen-tao Jin & Ming-yang Lin, 34022848 (SHEM); 1♀, CHINA, Taiwan, Koshun, Apr. 1937, coll. K. Iwata (NMLS); 1♂, MYANMAR, Lower Burma, Shwègyin 6.[18]98 Bingham, Chrysis burmanica [!], ♂, Mocs., burmanica [!] Mocs. det. Bingham, Chrysis burmanica [!] Mocs. det. Mocsáry (HNHM).

Diagnosis.

Chrysis ignifascia Mocsáry female is easily recognised by the reddish golden stripe on T2 (Figs 2E, 2F). The male is green to blue, similar to C. yoshikawai Tsuneki, but can be separated by the longitudinal sub-triangular black spots on S2 (Fig. 7A) (transverse and sub-reniform in C. yoshikawai (Fig. 7B)).

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong) (Rosa et al 2014), Myanmar ( Mocsáry 1893; Kimsey and Bohart 1991).

Remarks.

The colour dimorphism between male and female of C. ignifascia misled some authors including Mocsáry (1893), who described the female as C. ignifascia (Fig. 4) and the male as C. birmanica (Fig. 5). Tsuneki (1961, 1970) did not mention either C. ignifascia or C. birmanica in his publications and described the male as C. taiwana (Fig. 3), comparing its body colouration with that of C. yoshikawai Tsuneki, 1961. After types examination we propose the synonymy C. ignifascia Mocsáry, 1893 = C. taiwana Tsuneki, 1970, syn. n.