Chrysis acceptabilis Radoszkowski, 1891

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 : 4-5

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis acceptabilis Radoszkowski, 1891 Plate 2

Chrysis acceptabilis Radoszkowski 1891a: 197.

Type locality.

“Saraks”.

Lectotype

♂ (here designated) [box 61]: golden rounded label // Tr-Cap Saraks // acceptabilis [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Paralectotypes

2♂♂ and 1♀ [box 61]: golden rounded label // Tr-Cap Saraks.

Remarks.

In collection, five specimens under the name Chrysis acceptabilis R. bear the same collecting label. We have excluded one of them from the type series, because it belongs to another species ( Chrysis chlorochrysa , in the Chrysis viridissima group) and does not match the original description.

Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 428) synonymised Chrysis acceptabilis Radoszkowski with Chrysis kokandica Radoszkowski and placed it in the Chrysis splendidula group. However, the specimen labelled by Radoszkowki is consistent with the interpretation of Chrysis acceptabilis provided by Linsenmaier (1968: 113). Based on its very short flagellomeres (F-I and F-II), Linsenmaier placed Chrysis acceptabilis in the Chrysis cerastes group. For this reason, Rosa et al. (2013: 15) consider Chrysis acceptabilis and Chrysis kokandica as two valid species. The examination of the type in MMU confirmed that Chrysis kokandica belongs to the Chrysis splendidula group and it is a different species, not conspecific with Chrysis acceptabilis . To avoid future misidentifications we designate the male specimen labelled by Radoszkowski (Plate 2) as the lectotype of Chrysis acceptabilis .

Current status.

Chrysis acceptabilis Radoszkowski, 1891.