Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsary , 1889

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 : 58-60

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsary, 1889

Chrysis Uljanini Radoszkowski and Mocsáry 1889: 436 nec Radoszkowski, 1877.

Type locality.

"Turkestania (Kisil-kum. Coll. Rad.)".

Holotype

♂ [box 62]: Kizilkum 30 Aug 1870 / label with genitalia / Uljanini Rad. Mocs / Chrysis kizilkumiana Rosa det. P. Rosa 2012

Remarks.

Mocsáry (1889) studied two specimens of Chrysis uljanini lent by Radoszkowski. The female was the syntype collected at Zaravshan on the 27th May 1896, while the male was erroneously considered as syntype. In fact, the male specimen was collected at Kizilkum on the 30th of August 1870 and was not listed in the original description by Radoszkowki (1877), therefore it cannot be considered as a syntype. Radoszkowki (1889: fig. 51) drew the genitalia of this specimen in the revision of the genial capsulae of the Chrysididae . The male belongs to a different species and is conspecific with the male paralectotype of Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowki collected at Tashkent and housed in ISEA-PAN.

Mocsáry (1889) understood that the two specimens of Chrysis uljanini belong to two different species: Clariss.[imo] Auctor [Radoszkowski] sub nomine Chrysis Uljanini , secundum specimina typica, duas descripserat species bene distinctas et ego denominationem solum ad marem, etiam depictum, restringo et feminam distinguendae esse censeo [based on the type specimens, Radoszkowski described two well distinct species under the name Chrysis Uljanini and I limit this name only to the male, also depicted, and the female has to be separate].

Therefore Mocsáry (1889) considered the male from Kizilkum as Chrysis uljanini , but redescribed it under the name Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsáry. He also described the female syntype of Chrysis uljanini as Chrysis sarafashana Mocsáry (1889).

The following authors followed Mocsáry’s (1889) interpretation and considered Chrysis uljanini in the Chrysis cerastes group (sensu Linsenmaier 1959) and Chrysis sarafashana in the Chrysis ignita group (Radoszkowki 1891: 190): Dalla Torre (1892: 92, 104), du Buysson (in André) ( 1895: 506, 512), Bischoff (1913: 58, 61), Tsuneki (1953: 27), Linsenmaier (1959: 159). The same identifications can be found in the most important European collections of Linsenmaier (NMLS), Zimmermann (NHMW) and Semenov-Tian-Shanskij (ZIN). Only Nikol’skaja (in Semenov-Tian-Shanskij and Nikol’skaya 1954: 130) gave the name Chrysis uljanini to specimens belonging to the Chrysis ignita group.

At the beginning of 1990 the situation was clear: there were two species ( Chrysis uljanini and Chrysis sarafashana ) belonging to two different species groups ( Chrysis cerastes and Chrysis ignita groups), but the lectotype of Chrysis uljanini should be still designated, based on the male syntype, housed in Krakow and collected at Tashkent, to fix the current interpretation of the two species.

Bohart (in Kimsey and Bohart 1991) designated one female syntype found in MMU and belonging to the Chrysis ignita group as the lectotype of Chrysis uljanini . Thus, the name Chrysis sarafashana fallen in synonymy with Chrysis uljanini and the males belonging to the Chrysis cerastes group, till then known as Chrysis uljanini , remained without any name.

To clarify the situation, we consider the name Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsáry, 1889 as a junior primary homonym of Chrysis uljanini Radoszkwski, 1877. In fact, Mocsáry did not study nor redescribe the syntype male of Chrysis uljanini , but a different specimen collected at Kizilkum. The evidence of the description of a new species can be found in Mocsáry’s text ( 1889: 436) and in the index ( 1889: 633): Mocsáry considered this taxon as Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowki & Mocsáry, 1889 and not as Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowki, 1877. This is the only case in which Mocsáry added his name after the original author name. Therefore all the citations of Chrysis uljanini published from 1889 until Kimsey and Bohart’s monograph ( 1991) (excluding Semenov-Tian-Shanskij and Nikol’skaja 1954) should be referred to this taxon.

Since Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsáry, 1889 has to be considered as a primary homonym of Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowki, 1877, we replace it with Chrysis kizilkumiana Rosa, new name. The etymology of this name refers to the collecting place. The holotype of this species is the male studied by Mocsáry and bearing the following labels: "Kizilkum 30 Aug 1870" and " Uljanini Rad. Mocs" [handwritten by Mocsáry]. The accurate description of this taxon is given by Mocsáry (1889: 436) and the drawing of the genital capsule is given by Radoszkowki (1889: tab. IV, fig. 51). The type is conspecific with the paralectotype male of Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski, whose figures can be found in this article (Plate 49). It belongs to the Chrysis cerastes group.

Current status.

Chrysis kizilkumiana Rosa, replacement name for Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsáry, 1889 nec Radoszkowski, 1877.