Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski 1877

Rosa, Paolo, Halada, Marek, Fateryga, Alexander V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, Contribution to the knowledge of the Uzbek cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) with the first checklist and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 331-399 : 371

Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski 1877

Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877: 17 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Bohart in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 464; Uzbekistan: Tashkent (ZMMU, examined) ( maculicornis group).

Chrysis ( Tetrachrysis) fulvicornis Mocsáry, 1889: 373 . Holotype ♂; Uzbekistan: Tashkent (ISEA-PAS, examined) ( maculicornis group). Synonym of Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877 according to Rosa et al. 2015a: 10 .

Material examined. Uzbekistan: 1♀, Kyzyl-Kyr , Kyzyl-Kum desert, 29.VI.1976, leg. J. Niedl ( MHC) ; 3♂, 1♀, Papngan , 20 km NW of Kokand, 12.V.1994, leg. M. Halada ( MHC) ; 2♂, 1♀, Samarkand env., 19–21.V.1994, leg. M. Halada ( MHC) ; 4♂, 1♀, 5 km W of Djizak , 23.V.1994, leg. M. Halada ( MHC) ; 1♂, 1♀, 50 km W of Pahtakor , 24.V.1994, leg. J. Halada ( MHC) ; 4♂, 6♀, Czirczik , 28.V.1994, leg. M. Halada ( MHC, PRC).

Remarks. All specimens examined are characterised by a light green coulor, instead of the dark blue of the type and other specimens collected from Central Asia to Mongolia. The head is also slighly wider in frontal view. However, general habitus, sculpture, shape of apical margin, black spots and genitalia are closely similar. Pending molecular analyses, we consider these specimens to belong to Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski.

Distribution. Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( Radoszkowski 1877; Mocsáry 1889; du Buysson in André 1896; Kimsey & Bohart 1991).