Chrysis csikiana Mocsáry, 1912

Rosa, P., 2018, New records of cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from Russia with taxonomic notes, Far Eastern Entomologist 360, pp. 1-14 : 5

Chrysis csikiana Mocsáry, 1912 , stat. n.

Fig. 6, 6A

Chrysis csikiana Mocsáry, 1912: 406 , ♀, ♂; lectotype – ♂ (design. Bohart & French, 1986),

"Altai, Semipalatinsk" [ Kazakhstan], examined [HNHM] (ignita group).

Chrysis csikiana: Vinokurov, 2006c: 21 ; 2010b: 1277; 2013: 1107.

Chrysis fouqueti: Vinokurov, 2010a: 40 .

Chrysis fouqueti csikiana: Rosa et al., 2017 b: 135 .

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Russia: North Caucasus: Stavropol Terr.: Dzhi-

nalskij crest, env. Kislovodsk, 820 m, 23.V 2009, 2♀ (NV) [ PRC]; 6 km from vill .

Vernaya Balkarya on Cherek river, 26.V 2005, 1♀ (NV) [ PRC] ).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (European part), China (Xinjiang), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Tarbinsky, 2000).

REMARKS. Linsenmaier (1959) considered Chrysis csikiana Mocsáry, 1912 as a valid species and C. fouqueti du Buysson, 1908 as its subspecies, disregarding the

Principle of Priority. According to Linsenmaier (1959) C. c. csikiana is the Central

Asian subspecies, with simple punctuation on the metasomal terga 2–3, and C. c.

fouqueti the Oriental subspecies with different (closer) punctuation on the metasomal tergum 2. Chryis csikiana Mocsáry, 1912 and C. nitidularia Mocsáry, 1912 were synonymized by Kimsey & Bohart (1991) with C. fouqueti (du Buysson, 1908) .

Vinokurov (2006a, 2006c, 2010a) changed his interpretation of this species,

found on Caucasian mountains. Therefore Linsenmaier’s (1959) interpretation was followed by Rosa et al. (2017 b), considering this taxon as C. fouqueti csikiana because of obvious differences in body punctation and shape of the black spots on the sternum 2. After a recent examination of some Caucasian specimens ( Fig. 6 ),

collected by N. Vinokurov, and material preserved in Semenov’s collection from

Kazakhstan, I confirm that C. csikiana is a valid species, whose female is easily recognizable from C. fouqueti for the different structure of the head in frontal view,

with subparallel malar spaces, the shape of the apical margin of the last tergum, and the shape of the black spots. The female is highly dimorphic, for its peculiar shape of the head ( Fig. 6A ), whereas the male has a typical C. ignita face (see pictures of the male lectotype in Rosa et al. 2017 d).

Figures

Figs 1–6. 1 – Chrysis mesasiatica Mocsáry, ♂ (Astrakhan Prov., Volskij); 2 – idem,