Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis exsulans Dahlbom, 1854 Plate 14

Chrysis exsulans: Dahlbom 1854: 247.

Type locality.

"Patria ignota, forte Bengalia; specimen unicum ut. "Chr. fulgidae varietas" amice communicavit D. Spinola".

Material.

Holotype ♂. Chrysis exsulans, Dlbm. // Bengala.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis exsulans, 27, 42, 0, 1 (box 51).

Remarks.

Dahlbom realized that this specimen does not have an "exotic" habitus (Bengala was the old name of a district between NW India and Bangladesh) and cited the type locality as "forte Bengalia" [accidentally Bengalia for Bengala]. The species is distributed in North Africa and Near East (Linsenmaier 1999: 218). The type is missing the ventral surface of the metasoma, due to a dermestid attack. It belongs to the Chrysis ignita group.

Current status.

Chrysis exsulans Dahlbom, 1854.