Holopyga ignicollis Eversmann, 1858

Rosa, Paolo, Felsner, Christian, Heim, René, Greeff, Michael, Michez, Denis & Bernasconi, Marco Valerio, 2025, The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 5. Elampini: genus Holopyga Dahlbom, 1845, Zootaxa 5565 (1), pp. 1-66 : 53

Holopyga ignicollis Eversmann, 1858 [= Holopyga ignicollis Dahlbom sensu Linsenmaier ]

Holopyga ovata var. h Dahlbom, 1854: 53. Syntypes ♂, ♀ [not holotype]; Austria; Greece: Rhodes Is. (type depositories:

Vienna, Berlin) (examined). Unavailable name. Holopyga ignicollis Eversmann, 1858: 549 . Lectotype ♀ designated by Rosa et al. 2020b: 100. Russia: [locality unreadable]

“ campis Orenburgensibus et in promontor Uralensib.” (type depository: Kraków). Holopyga ignicollis Dahlbom : Linsenmaier 1959a: 32. Holopyga chrysonota Förster, 1853 : Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 230 (synonymised). Holopyga ignicollis : Mingo 1994: 72 (reinstated). Holopyga chrysonota Förster, 1853 : Rosa et al. 2020b: 100 (synonymised).

Remarks. Dahlbom’s (1854) Holopyga ignicollis originally described as var. h, so that it is an invalid manuscript name. Eversmann (1858: 549) was the first author to treat “var. ignicollis Klug ”, a name given by Dahlbom (1854) to one of the specimens examined in Berlin, as a valid subspecific name, thus making the name available as a species group name (ICZN 1999: Article 45.6). As a result, Eversmann (1858) was recognised as the author of the name ( Rosa et al. 2020b), not Dahlbom (1854).

Since the original type series included both males and females of Holopyga chrysonota and females of H. ignicollis , all sharing the same body colour pattern, Rosa et al. (2020b) designated a female of H. ignicollis sensu Linsenmaier (1959a) as the lectotype, and synonymised this species with H. chrysonota ( Förster, 1853) (see above). Consequently, Holopyga ignicollis sensu Linsenmaier (1959a) is H. chrysonota ( Förster, 1853) and H. chrysonota sensu Linsenmaier (1959a) is H. similis Mocsáry, 1889 .