Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775

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Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775

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Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775: 357 . Holotype ♀; India: Malabar (ZMUC) (examined). Fabricius 1781: 455 (cat., India: Mala- bar); Gmelin 1790: 2744 (descr., Malabar); Donovan 1800: 114 (descr., Tranqebar [= Tharangambadi]); Fabricius 1804: 171 (descr., Tranqebar [= Tharangambadi]); Dahlbom 1854: 310–311 (descr., Tranquebar); Dalla Torre 1892: 82 (cat., India); du Buysson 1896b: 477–478 (Calcutta [= Kolkata], Poona [= Pune] Raipur, Pondichery, Mysore), 477 (key), pl. III (fig. 8); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 488–489 (descr., probably the whole of Continental India), pl. I (fig. 15); Bingham 1908: 349 (Purneah [= Purnia]); Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (cat., India); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 445 (cat., India, oculata group); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 23 (cat., Gujarat).

Stilbum oculata: Blanchard 1840: 297 (descr., India Orientalis).

Chrysis siva Mocsáry, 1889: 545 . Holotype ♀; India: Bengal (HNHM).

Pyria oculata: Brullé 1846: 19 (descr., India Orientalis).

Chrysis (Hexachrysis) oculata Gribodo : Mocsáry 1889: 543–544 (descr., India Orientalis); Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., India).

Material examined. India: 3 ♀, Karikal, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Karnataka, Bellary, 1883, leg. Chater ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Karnataka, Mysore, Shimoga, 1865 ft, 24.vii.1937, leg. P.S. Nathan ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Kerala, Wa- layar forest, Malabar, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Sikhim, Coll. Bingham ( HNHM); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data ( NHMW); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry [= Puducherry], without further data ( NHMW); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nettapakam, Pondicherry [= Puducherry], without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Moyar Camp, 2900 feet, v.1954, leg. Nathan ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Tranquebar [= Tha- rangambadi], x.1951, leg. S. Nathan ( MNLU); 4 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram, ix.1951, leg. Nathan ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Moyar Camp, 2600 feet, iv.1954, leg. Nathan ( MNLU); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Set- tipatti, iii.1978, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai, x.1984, leg. Nathan ( PRC); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry [= Puducherry], Karaikal, x.1997, leg. T. Nathan ( PRC); 1 ♀, Uttarakhand, Haldwani Distr., Kumaon, leg. F.G. Champion ( MNLU); 1 ♀, India (likely Gujarat or Pakistan), 1934, leg. T.R. Bell ( MNLU); 1 ♀, India, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Bombay Stockinger, 755-2, Chrysis L. oculata Fabr. Linsenmaier det. 62, Holotypus Chrysis siva ♀ Mocs. RMB , id nr. 135 414 HNHM Hym.coll. ( HNHM).

Distribution. India (Bihar; Chhattisgarh; Puducherry; Karnataka; Kerala; Maharashtra; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; Uttarakhand; West Bengal; Bengal (locality not specified); Malabar (locality not specified); India Orientalis (locality not specified); Myanmar, Sri Lanka ( Jonathan et al. 1977).

Figures

FIGURE 48. Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775, female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. Metatoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.