Chrysis foveata 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 : 22-23

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis foveata Radoszkowski, 1877

Chrysis foveata Radoszkowski 1877: 13 nec Dahlbom, 1845.

Type locality.

"Habitat in valle Sarafschan et ad Maracanda [=Samarkand]", “Bидъ египетскій; пойманъ 12 мая въ Заравшанской долинѣ и 17 іюня 1869 г. въ Самаркандѣ " [Egyptian species; it was collected on the 12th of May in the Zaravshan Valley, and on the 17th of June 1869 at Samarkand].

Syntype

1♀ [box 60]: golden rounded label // Урмитанъ [printed] [Urmitan, along the Zarafshan river] // 12 [pink label] // 113 [printed] // foveata [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // foveata Rad genalis Moc [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Remarks.

Radoszkowski (1877: 13) described Chrysis foveata (nec foveata Dahlbom, 1845) based on some syntypes (at least 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ collected at Maracand [currently Samarkand] and in the Zaravshan valley). Later Mocsáry (in Radoszkowski 1889) gave the replacement name Chrysis genalis . In the same paper, Radoszkowski (1889: 18; figs 35a, 35b) drew some precise line-drawings of the genital capsule of the male housed in his collection. We do not consider this male as the male syntype, because collected at Tashkent on the 1st of May, day and locality not included in the original description; it bears the labels: golden rounded label // Tachkend [printed] // label with genital capsule // Taшк 1 Maя [handwritten]. Figures of the type and discussions are published in Rosa and Hosseinali (2013). The specimen housed in MMU and considered as holotype by Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 490 sub Chrysis genalis ) cannot be considered as lectotype by inference according to ICZN (art. 74.5); it bears the labels: Искандеръ [Iskander] / 17 [printed on blue-green label]. It belongs to the Chrysis radians group (Rosa and Hosseinali 2013).

Current status.

Chrysura genalis ( Mocsáry, 1887), replacement name for Chrysis foveata Radoszkowski, 1877 (transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991).