Chrysis svetlana

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 : 377

Chrysis svetlana Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1954, stat. resurr.

Chrysis ( Glossochrysis) svetlana Semenov-Tian-Shanskij in Semenov-Tian-Shanskij & Nikol’skaya, 1954: 116. Holotype ♂; Turkmenistan [not Tajikistan]: Kyzil-kum desert, Karakum ( paratypes from Uzbekistan) ( ZISP, examined) ( maculicornis group).

Material examined. Uzbekistan: 2♂, 15 km NWW of Pop 40°53′45′′N 70°54′57′′E, 20–21.V.2023, leg. A. Fateryga ( ZISP, PRC); 1♂, Tamdytau Mts. 41°39′02′′N 64°25′14′′E, 28.V.2023, leg. A. Fateryga ( ZISP); 1♂, ibid., 28.V.2023, leg. M. Proshchalykin ( ZISP); 1♂, Kazakhtau Mts., 41°18′06′′N 65°05′47′′E, 28.V.2023, leg. A. Fateryga ( PRC) .

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) synonymised Chrysis svetlana with Chrysis sacrata du Buysson, 1898 in the maculicornis group. However, C. svetlana belongs to the the pallidicornis group, with elongate first male flagellomere, distinctly longer than the second, both with lighter pale coloured compared to the other flagellomeres which are reddish (see Plate 130C in Rosa et al. 2017a), with long malar space and M-shaped transverse frontal carina; conversely, in males of C. sacrata the two first flagellomeres are both very short and concolour blackish like the others, the malar space is short and the frontal carina is U-inverted shaped. Considering that the two species belong to different species groups, we here resurrect Chrysis svetlana Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1954, stat. resurr.

Distribution. Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( Semenov-Tian-Shanskij & Nikol’skaya, 1954).