Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b

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 : 15-16

Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b

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Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b: 466 . Holotype ♀; India: Central Provinces ( Inde Anglaise) (466 (descr.), pl. II (figs 5, 6), pl. V (fig. 4)) (MNHN). Bingham 1908: 347 (cat., Oudh: Lucknow, Central India); Kimsey 1986: 108 (invalid lectotype designation); Jonathan et al. 1977: 85 ( India: Gujarat); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 207 (cat. India: Central Prov.); Strumia 1999: 49 (key), 53 (figs 11–14), 71 (descr., India: Nilgiri Hills; Coimbatore).

Hedychrum wroughtoni Bingham, 1903: 425 (cat., India: Central provinces of India, species unknown to Bingham), 424 (key), 425 (descr.).

Material examined. 2 ♂, 3 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Nadawaram, without further data ( NHMW) ; 1 ♂, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore , 29.ix.1953, leg. Nathan ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pulney Hills [= Palni Hills], Kodaikanal , 6500 ft, v.19, leg. Nathan ( MNLU) .

Distribution. India (Central Provinces (locality not specified), Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat). Nepal ( Bingham 1908), Myanmar, Sri Lanka ( Strumia 1999).

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) proposed the name Hedychridium attenuatum group, for those species sharing general habitus similar to Hedychrum ; a pit on the hind tibia; mandible without subsidiary tooth; elongate clypeus; elongate pronotum and metanotum; mesopleuron ventrally rounded; forewing radial sector (Second radial cross & Radial sector) longer than stigma. Linsenmaier (1968) and Rosa & Agnoli (2019) named this species group Hedychridium planifrons group. It was named Hedychridium wroughtoni group by Strumia (1999) after synonymisation of H. attenuatum Mocsáry, 1914 with H. wroughtoni . The group includes the following species: Hedychridium wroughtoni ; H. aegyptiacum du Buysson, 1898a ; H. planifrons du Buysson, 1900 ; H. iocosum Linsenmaier, 1959 ; H. laetificum Linsenmaier, 1959 ; and probably H. tarbinskyi Rosa & Agnoli, 2019 , and H. nevadae Kimsey in Bohart & Kimsey, 1978 (not examined).

Genus Hedychrum Latreille, 1802

Hedychrum Latreille, 1802: 317 . Type species: Chrysis lucidula Fabricius, 1775 (= Sphex nobilis Scopoli, 1763 ). Monotypic.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896, female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, frontal view. D. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.