Holopyga unitasculpta Linsenmaier, 1968

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 : 45

Holopyga unitasculpta Linsenmaier, 1968

( Fig. 37A–37F )

Holopyga unitasculpta Linsenmaier, 1968: 14 (descr.).

Holopyga solskyi ( Radoszkowski, 1877) : present paper (new synonymy).

Type locality. Turkmenistan: " Turkmenien , Tedshen, V.64, leg. Pulawski, ♂ Type in Coll. m." .

Holotype, ♀ [not ♂]: Turkmenia Tedshen tugaï 25.V.1964 leg. W.J. Pulawski // ♀ Type Holopyga Dhlb. unitasculpta Lins. Linsenmaier det. 1966 // 204 // NML _ENT GBIF _ Chr 0005247 (ex type-collection).

Remarks. The holotype is a female, rather than a male as stated in the original description. Holopyga unitasculpta is here considered a junior subjective synonym of Holopyga solskyi ( Radoszkowski, 1877) . The types of Holopyga solskyi and of another junior synonym, H. vespera Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1967, were examined and images published in Rosa et al. (2015a, 2017a). They share the same size, habitus, colour and the peculiar punctation of the metasoma. Linsenmaier (1968) misidentified Holopyga solskyi , describing it as a species with small punctures on the metasoma. Holopyga unitasculpta was compared by Linsenmaier (1968) with H. mlokosiewitzi hemisimpla Linsenmaier , which is charaterised by a light blue to green body colour instead of dark blue to violet in H. solskyi , and double punctation on the second metasomal tergum, with dense and small punctures basally becoming larger and sparser in the second half of the tergum rather than sparser throughout, including basally in H. solskyi .

Figures

FIGURE 37. Holopyga unitasculpta Linsenmaier, 1968, holotype, female. A) Habitus, dorsal view. B) Head, frontal view. C) Habitus, lateral view. D) Metasoma, latero-dorsal view. E) Metasoma, posterior view. F) Metasoma, ventral view.