Chrysis orientalis Guérin-Méneville, 1842

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 52

Chrysis orientalis Guérin-Méneville, 1842

( Figs 49 A–49E)

Chrysis orientalis Guérin-Méneville, 1842: 146 . Holotype ♂; Indonesia: Sumatra (MSNG) (examined). Dalla Torre 1892: 82 (cat., India); du Buysson 1896b: 477 (key, descr., India: Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]; Mysore); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 485–486 (descr., India: Uttar Pradesh: Allahabad, Delhi; Gujarat: Deesa; Poona [= Pune] to Karnataka: Mysore; Central Provinces); Bingham 1908: 349 (cat., West Bengal: Calcutta [= Kolkata], spread generally throughout India, but not as yet recorded from Assam); Nurse 1903: 42 (descr., Deesa); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 446 (cat., India, oculata group); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22 (cat., Gujarat).

Chrysis (Hexachrysis) orientalis: Mocsáry 1889: 592–593 (descr., India Orientalis); Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., India).

Chrysis (Pyria) stilboides ssp. duplomaculata Linsenmaier, 1968: 123 . Holotype ♀; India: Gujarat: Deesa (NHMUK) (syn- onymised by Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 446).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry [= Puducherry], without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♂, 5 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Karikal, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Moyar Camp, 2600 feet, iv.1954, leg. Nathan ( NHMW); 2 ♂, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, ix.1951, leg. Nathan (sub Chrysis stilboides duplomaculata MNLU ).

Distribution. India (Chhattisgarh; Delhi; Gujarat; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Odisha; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal; Central Provinces (locality not specified); Western India (locality not specified); Indonesia (Sumatra) (Guérin- Méneville 1842).

Remarks. All examined Indian specimens are conspecific with Chrysis duplomaculata Linsenmaier, 1968 , synonymised by Kimsey & Bohart (1991). The holotype male of Chrysis orientalis Guérin-Méneville has a different structure of mesopleuron, with episternal sulcus differently shaped and smaller toothed subtended area; it is also different for colouration (which is uniform blue-green, with dark blue on median area of mesoscutum) and sparser metasomal punctation. More material from the Oriental region is needed to evaluate the variability Chrysis orientalis and if Chrysis duplomaculata is a valid species.

Figures

FIGURE 49. Chrysis orientalis Guérin-Méneville, 1842, female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.