Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis punctatissima Spinola, 1840 Plate 25

Chrysis punctatissima: Spinola 1840: 200 nec Villers, 1789.

Type locality.

Cayenne, French Guyana.

Material.

Syntypes 1♂ and 2♀♀. Chrysis fasciata Fab. - Chrysis punctatissima m.[ihi], olim D. Buquet, Cayenna / Chrysis carina ♂ R. M. Bohart det.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis punctatissima, 59, 56, 1, 3 (box 51).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854: 197) treated this species as a synonym of Chrysis fasciata Fabricius; for likely this reason, we find written on Spinola’s label: " Chrysis fasciata Fab - Chrysis punctatissima mihi".

Current status.

Neochrysis carina ( Brullé, 1846) (synonymised by Mocsáry 1889: 339; Neochrysis carina is the first available name; transferred by Kimsey 1985: 276).