Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Hedychrum callosum Radoszkovsky, 1877 Figure 8

Hedychrum callosum Radoszkovsky 1877 (1876): 108.

Type locality.

“Syra” .

Holotype

♂ [box 59]: golden rounded label // Syra [handwritten] // Holopyga ahenea Dhlb. ( Hedychrum callosum Rad.) [handwritten by Mocsáry] // 84 [printed].

Remarks.

Hedychrum callosum Radoszkovsky, 1877 was considered a synonym of Hedychridium aheneum (Dahlbom, 1854) by Mocsáry (1887: 13; 1889: 146), Dalla Torre (1892: 20), and Bischoff (1913: 14). Trautmann (1927: 56) considered Hedychridium aheneum as a variety of Hedychridium incrassatum (Dahlbom, 1854), and therefore placed Hedychrum callosum in the synonymic list of Hedychridium incrassatum . The following authors (e.g. Linsenmaier 1951: 98; Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 196) re-evaluated Hedychridium aheneum, but Hedychrum callosum remained in synonym with Hedychridium incrassatum . Hedychridium incrassatum is found only in the western Mediterranean countries, while Hedychridium aheneum is spread in the eastern Mediterranean countries, Middle East and central Asia (Linsenmaier 1959, 1968). In southern Italy both Hedychridium aheneum and Hedychridium incrassatum (described from Sicily) are present (Strumia 1995).

Current status.

Hedychridium aheneum (Dahlbom, 1854) (synonymised by Mocsáry 1887).