Chrysis graelsii Guérin, 1842

Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 3864 (1), pp. 1-67 : 33

43. Chrysis graelsii Guérin, 1842

Chrysis Graelsii Guérin 1842: 148 . Holotype ♀; Spain: Barcelona (MSNG) (examined).

Chrysis Sybarita Förster 1853: 309 . Holotype ♂; Hungary (ZMB). Sahlberg 1910: 96 (as C. Sybárita).

Chrysis sybarita: Poppius 1901: 9 , Ehrström 1915: 129, Ehrström 1916: 138, Hellén 1920: 212, Bischoff 1925: 307, Trautmann 1927: 174, Trautmann 1930: 505, Hellén 1935: 8, Benno 1950: 44, Balthasar 1954: 226, Haupt 1957: 105, Noskiewicz & Pulawski 1958: 48, Valkeila 1962: 64, Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 93, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Banaszak 1980: 31, Vikberg 1986b: 68, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142.

Chrysis graelsii sybarita: Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 45 .

Chrysis graelsii: Soon 2004: 21 , 46 (as C. graellsii ), Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 149, Paukkunen 2010: 538, Soon & Saarma 2011: 15 (as C. graellsii ), Ranta 2012: 33, Soon et al. 2014: 319.

Chrysis graelsii graelsii: Rosa & Soon 2012 .

Material examined: *Russian Fennoscandia: Kl: Kurkijoki, Soskua, 3.VII.2005, 1 ♀ (J. Paukkunen); Kurkijoki, Tervu, 5.VII.2005, 5 ♀♀ (J. Paukkunen); Kurkijoki, Vätikkä, 8.VII.2005, 1 ♂ (J. Paukkunen); Lahdenpohja, 13.VII.2002, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ (J. Paukkunen).

Distribution. Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, *Russian Fennoscandia.—Westpalearctic: Europe and Asia Minor ( Linsenmaier 1959, 1968).

Remarks. The species has an eastern distribution and has not been found in Denmark, Norway or Sweden. The record from Sweden by Rosa & Soon (2012) is obviously erroneous. In Finland the species has declined distinctly and is classified as endangered ( Paukkunen 2010).