Chrysis excisa Mocsary , 1889

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 21-22

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis excisa Mocsary, 1889

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) excisa Mocsáry (in Radoszkowski) 1889: 25.

Type locality.

“France”.

Holotype

(?) ♂ [box 61]: 311 20 [handwritten] // 69 [printed] // label with genitalia.

Remarks.

We consider the name Chrysis excisa as a replacement name for Chrysis chevrieri Abeille, nec Mocsáry. Nevertheless, many authors, from Dalla Torre (1892: 59) to Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 409), considered Chrysis excisa as a new species and not a replacement name. If the second interpretation is correct, the male bearing the dissected genitalia could be considered as the holotype, because Radoszkowski drew and described only the male genitalia. Two females without locality labels, but with handwritten name by Radoszkowski, could be considered as part of the type series, but they were not mentioned in the description. They bear the following labels: first specimen: 267 2 [handwritten] // excisa Moc Chevrieri Ab. [handwritten by Radoszkowski]; second specimen: 267 7 [handwritten].

Radoszkowski (1889: figs 52, 53, 55) in his collection dissected three specimens with similar colour and habitus, belonging to the comparata group: one from France (identified as Chrysis excisa ), one from Orenbourg ( Chrysis analis ), and one from Caucasus ( Chrysis perrinii ). He did not consider that Chrysis analis was described on specimen collected in Liguria (bordering France) and not from specimens collected in central Russia (Orenbourg on the Ural River). Consequently, Radoszkowski mistakenly identified the Russian specimens as Chrysis analis , and therefore the French specimen as different species based on the very different genital capsula. Mocsáry described this species based only on Radoszkowski’s drawings. However, the shape of the genital capsula of Chrysis excisa Mocsáry is clearly the same of Chrysis analis Spinola, and the examination of the types confirm this synonym. Trautmann (1927: 171) and Linsenmaier (1951: 105) already considered Chrysis excisa as synonym of Chrysis analis , while Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 405) listed Chrysis excisa as a valid name. We here confirm the synonym Chrysis excisa Mocsáry, 1889 = Chrysis analis Spinola, 1808. It belongs to the Chrysis comparata group.

Current status.

Chrysis analis Spinola, 1808 (synonymised by Trautmann 1927: 171).