An annotated catalogue of the types of Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, with brief historical notes
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Rosa, Paolo
Via Belvedere 8 / d I- 20881 Bernareggio (MB), Italy
rosa@chrysis.net
Author
Vardal, Hege
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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Chrysis
lateralis Dahlbom, 1845
Plate 10
Chrysis lateralis
:
Dahlbom 1845
: 10.
Type locality.
Greece: Rhodes.
Syntype 1 ♀.
[Rhodus] [Hedenb.] [NHRS-HEVA000001095].
Plate 10.
Chrysis lateralis
Dahlbom, 1845, holotype.
A
Habitus, dorsal view
B
head, frontal view
C
mesosoma, dorsal view
D
second and third metasomal tergites, dorso-lateral view.
Remarks.
This species belongs to the
Chrysis elegans
group and is conspecific with
Chrysis separata
Trautmann, 1926. None of the most important authors (
Dahlbom 1854
;
Mocsary
1889
; du Buysson (in
Andre
)
1891-1896
;
Trautmann 1927
;
Berland and Bernard 1938
;
Linsenmaier 1951
,
1959
,
1968
) mentioned this species. Only
Dalla Torre (1892
: 74) and later
Kimsey and Bohart (1991
: 431) listed it as a valid species in the
comparata
-
scutellaris
group, without type examination. The female syntype has all the typical characteristics of
Chrysis separata
, species widespread from Zante (typical locality) to Middle East. A second syntype is housed in the Dahlbom collection in MZLU. We here propose
Chrysis separata
Trautmann, 1926, as a
new synonym
of
Chrysis lateralis
Dahlbom, 1845.
A similar case was found studying
Dahlbom's
type of
Chrysis confluens
(Dahlbom, 1845).
Chrysis confluens
was described from Rhodes and belongs to the
Chrysis elegans
group.
Chrysis confluens
was synonymised by Dahlbom himself (
1854
: 159, var. h) with
Chrysis elegans
Lepeletier, 1806 and remained in synonymy with
Chrysis elegans
in all the most important works. However, nobody noticed that the description was perfectly matching the description of
Chrysis elegans var. smaragdula
Trautmann, 1926
nec
Fabricius, 1775, also described from Rhodes.
Linsenmaier (1959
: 137) replaced the name
Chrysis elegans smaragdula
Trautmann with
Chrysis interrogata
Linsenmaier, 1959 without taking care of the possible synonymy with
Chrysis confluens
(Dahlbom). There is no doubt about
Chrysis elegans var. smaragdula
Trautmann, 1926 (currently
Chrysis elegans ssp. interrogata
Linsenmaier) as a
new synonym
of
Chrysis confluens
(Dahlbom, 1845), because
Chrysis confluens
is one of the most common species on the island and its peculiar colour is unique in this species group: "
Corpus
aeneo-
aut subaurato-viride
" and "
Caput et thorax cyaneo- et viridi-variegata. Abdom. segmenti 3:tii series punctorum ante apicalis numerosorum orbiculatorum subconfluentium. Corpus 2
1/2
lin. long.
". This peculiar green or golden-green colouration is well emphasized by the name
smaragdula
, which in Latin means emerald green.
Both names
Chrysis separata
and
Chrysis interrogata
have been used mainly by Linsenmaier and a few other authors (i.e.
Rosa 2005b
;
Strumia and Yildirim 2009
), and according to the ICZN there is no reason for applying the Reversal of Precedence. The type of
Chrysis confluens
is housed in the Dahlbom collection in MZLU.
Current status.
Chrysis lateralis
Dahlbom, 1845.