Trichrysis triacantha ( Mocsáry, 1889 )

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 83

Trichrysis triacantha ( Mocsáry, 1889)

( Figs 85 A–85F)

Chrysis (Trichrysis) triacantha Mocsáry, 1889: 325 . Syntypes ♀; Indonesia: Sumatra (NHMW) (examined). du Buysson 1893: 247 (Calcutta [= Kolkata]); Bischoff 1913: 46 (cat., India).

Chrysis triacantha Mocsáry : du Buysson 1896b: 471 (key, Calcutta [= Kolkata]); Bingham 1903: 436 (key), 453 (descr., Calcutta [= Kolkata]), 453 (fig. 154); Bingham 1908: 348 (Bihar: Purneah [= Purnia], West Bengal: Calcutta [= Kolkata]); Jonathan et al. 1977: 86 ( India: Orissa [= Odisha], West Bengal: Calcutta [= Kolkata], Sri Lanka extending to the Malayan subregion).

Distribution. India (Bihar; West Bengal); China (Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Yunnan) ( Rosa et al. 2016a). Widely distributed in the Oriental Region ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Figures

FIGURE 85. Trichrysis triacantha (Mocsáry, 1889), lectotype, female.A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Mesosoma, dorsal view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. Third tergum, posterior view. F. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.