Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis sicula Dahlbom, 1854

Chrysis sicula: Dahlbom 1854: 158 (given as var. ab and var. f).

Type locality.

Sicily.

Material.

Holotype (?) ♀. Chrysis elegans, Lepell. et Dlbm. var. a, ♀ - β . id. var. ab. Dlbm. - Chrysis sicula, mihi olim D. Grohmann. Sicilia.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis elegans, 164, 204, 34, 2 (box 50).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854) refered to three specimens housed in the Spinola collection named Chrysis sicula . The male specimen is no longer present in the collection, and it was not listed by Spinola himself, who listed only two female specimens: Chrysis elegans var. a and "β" var. ab. However, there is no perfect match between Dahlbom (1854) descriptions and Spinola’s label, since the form "β" referred to a male (described with green mesosoma), whereas in the Spinola collection the label "β" refers to a female. We interpret Chrysis sicula as a new synonym of Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806. It belongs to the Chrysis elegans group.

Current status.

Chrysis elegans Lepeletier Lepeletier, 1806.