Chrysis chalcophana 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 : 12

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis chalcophana Mocsary, 1889 Plate 10

Chrysis (Olochrysis) chalcophana Mocsáry 1889: 213.

Type locality.

"Caucaus (Coll. Rad.)".

Holotype

♂ [box 60]: golden rounded label // ♂ sp. // Cauca Mlokos [printed] // 116 [printed] // chalcophana Mocs. [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Remarks.

The type is badly damaged missing the head, pronotum, fore-legs, and some tarsi of the hind-legs. It is closely related to Chrysis tenella Mocsáry, 1889; the main difference is the shape of the pits in the pit-row of the third tergite. Mocsáry (1889) described the two species mainly based on the colouration. Since the body colouration and the pits in the pit-row may be variable, Chrysis chalcophana could be synonym of Chrysis tenella . It belongs to the Chrysis millenaris group.

Current status.

Chrysis chalcophana Mocsáry, 1889.