Chrysis semicincta Lepeletier, 1806

Rosa, Paolo & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Maximilian Spinola (1780 - 1857), Turin, ZooKeys 471, pp. 1-96 : 58

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis semicincta Lepeletier, 1806

Chrysis semicincta : Lepeletier 1806: 127.

Label

[♀]: " Chrysis semicincta , Lepell. / Poecilochroa Klug / D. Cantener Provence / D. Ghiliani, Espagne".

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis semicincta , 148, 177, 10, 1 (box 51).

Remarks.

The type is not housed in the Lepeletier collection at MNHN ( du Buysson 1898) and Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 461) listed it as being part of the Spinola collection. There is only one specimen, without a label, housed in MRSN under the name Chrysis semicincta . Unfortunately, there is no evidence that this is the true type of this species. Previously, at least two specimens examined by Dahlbom (1854: 242) were housed in the Spinola collection, as written on the main label: " Chrysis semicincta , Lepell. / Poecilochroa Klug / D.[Donavit] Cantener Provence / D.[Donavit] Ghiliani, Espagne". The type locality of Chrysis semicincta is unknown: "Je ne sais de quel pays elle est". The locality of the specimen left in the collection is unknown, too, since no locality label is pinned with the specimen. We know that part of the Lepeletier collection, and therefore some types, had been primarily bought by Cantener ( Passerin d’Entréves 1980) and later bought by Spinola (letter 00576). It is possible that Spinola bought the specimen from Cantener and wrote "Provence", the locality given by the insect dealer. We observed that the specimen had been prepared with open wings, as the one drawn on the colour plate by Lepeletier (1806). Lepeletier (1806) described Chrysis semicincta from a male, but Lepeletier was often unable to identify the gender of cuckoo wasps correctly, so this could be a useless piece of information as in the case of Hedychrum nitidum .

Current status.

Chrysis semicincta Lepeletier, 1806.