Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis sarafschana Mocsary, 1889 Plate 36

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) sarafschana Mocsáry 1889: 437.

Type locality.

"Turkestania (vallis Sarafschan, Coll. Rad.)".

Holotype

♀ [box 61]: golden rounded label // Верхн . Заравш . // ulianini [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // 27. [printed] [pink label] // 52 [printed] // sarafschana Mocs. [handwritten by Mocsáry].

Remarks.

The type is seriously damaged, without metasoma and some flagellomeres of antennae. This specimen is also the second syntype of Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski, 1877.

Mocsáry (1889) described Chrysis sarafschana based on the female syntype of Chrysis uljanini received by Radoszkowski. In his diagnosis, Mocsáry explained the reasons why Chrysis sarafschana [belonging to the Chrysis ignita group] cannot be the female of Chrysis uljanini [belonging to the Chrysis cerastes group]. This interpretation was later followed by other authors: Radoszkowki (1889: tab. 51, the drawing of the genital capsule is not related to the species belonging to the Chrysis ignita group), Dalla Torre (1892: 92, 104), du Buysson (in André) (1895: 506, 512), Bischoff (1910: 58, 61), Tsuneki (1953: 27) and Linsenmaier (1959: 159). For further remarks see under Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski and Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski & Mocsáry .

Current status.

Chrysis uljanini Radoszkowski, 1877 (synonymized by Kimsey and Bohart 1991).