Hedychridium ardens (Coquebert, 1801)

Hedychridium minutum Lepeletier, 1806: du Buysson 1900: 128 (mis., Calcutta [= Kolkata]); Bingham 1903: 424 (key), 427 (descr., Calcutta [= Kolkata]); Nurse 1904: 19 (comp. notes).

Hedychridium ardens: Strumia 1999: 49 (key), 55 (distr.).

Remarks. The record of Hedychridium ardens for India is either a misidentification or the given locality ‘Calcutta’ is in error. Hedychridium ardens is a Euro-Siberian species and we here consider this record as questionable. Strumia (1999) already considered it doubtful.