Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis aurichalca Lepeletier, 1806

Chrysis aurichalca: Lepeletier 1806: 127.

Label

[♀]: Chrysis aurichalca Lep. 127; Europa, Provenza, Caerulipes Fab // 6293 (currently Chrysura cuprea (Rossi, 1790)).

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis aurichalca, 148, 177, 0, 3 (box 50).

Remarks.

The specimen with numerical rounded label (6293) could be the holotype of Chrysis aurichalca Lepeletier, which arrived in the Spinola collection with the chrysidids of Latreille. The type is not housed in MNHN (du Buysson 1899).

Current status.

Chrysura cuprea (Rossi, 1790) (transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 487).