Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis elegantula Spinola, 1838 Plate 12

Chrysis elegantula : Spinola 1838: 451.

Type locality.

Egypt.

Material.

Holotype ♀. Chrysis alternans Kl. // var. - Chrysis elegantula, n. // olim // D. Waltl, Egypt.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis alternans, 132, 23, 95, 1 (box 51).

Remarks.

In Casolari and Casolari Moreno (1980: 79) under the name Chrysis alternans, the specimen is surely the type of Chrysis elegantula . Dahlbom (1854: 236) reported exactly the same names: " Chrysis alternans var. c ♂ - Chrysis elegantula Mus. Spinola". The type is a female and not a male. It belongs to the comparata - scutellaris group.

Current status.

Chrysis elegantula Spinola, 1838.