Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Hedychrum nitidum Lepeletier, 1806

Hedychrum nitidum: Lepeletier 1806: 121.

Label

[2 ♀♀]: Hedychrum nitidum, Lepel. 121; Europa P. / 6265.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Hedychrum nitidum, 148, 85, 0, 2 (box 50).

Remarks.

Lepeletier (1806) described Hedychrum nitidum based on a male, but the description is obviously based on a female. The original colour drawing (pl. 6: 6) clearly shows a specimen with ovipositor tube. Moreover, the colour given in the description likely referres to a female. In the Spinola collection there are two females, possibly syntypes. At MNHN, there are other specimens of this species coming from Lepeletier’s collection, included some syntypes (du Buysson 1898: 563, as a synonym of Holopyga fervida, currently in box 11 of the general collection).

Current status.

Holopyga fervida (Fabricius, 1781) (synonymized by Mocsáry 1889: 131).