Chrysis taczanovskii Radoszkowsky, 1877

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 : 51-52

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis taczanovskii Radoszkowsky, 1877 Plate 42

Chrysis Taczanovskii Radoszkowsky 1877 (1876): 146.

Type locality.

"Egypte et Abyssinie" [written in the introduction].

Holotype

♀ [box 62]: golden rounded label // Egyptus. [printed] [blue label] // Taczano [printed] // Taczanovsk [handwritten by Radoszkowski] // 220 [printed] // taczanowski [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Remarks.

The type is seriously damaged, without forewings and right hind wing; it has no left hind-leg and tarsi of the left mid-leg and right hind-legs; it lacks the sternites and the internal segments. The African form has shorter F-I and narrower scapal basin compared with specimens from Middle East and Caucasian countries. It belongs to the Chrysis taczanovskii group.

Current status.

Chrysis taczanovskii Radoszkowsky, 1877.