Chrysis angolensis Radoszkovsky, 1881

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Chrysis angolensis Radoszkovsky, 1881

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Chrysis angolensis Radoszkovsky, 1881: 219 . Holotype [sex unknown]; Angola (depository unknown) ( angolensis group). Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22 (cat., Gujarat); Ahmed et al. 2020: 199 (cat., Haryana, Tamil Nadu).

Chrysis fuscipennis Brullé, 1846 nec Dahlbom, 1829: du Buysson 1896b: 472 (key, cat., Central Provinces, Bombay [= Mumbai]: Poona [= Pune], Bangalore [= Bengaluru], Pondicherry); Bingham 1903: 438 (key), 467 (descr., comp. notes, recorded as a common species throughout India); Bingham 1908: 348 (cat., Purneah [= Purnia], Siliguri, Culcutta [= Kolkata]); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22 (cat., Gujarat); Sihag 1983: 375 (Haryana: Hissar); Kadirvelu 1991: 466 (Coimbatore).

Chrysis fuscipennis var. mossullensis [!] du Buysson, 1887: du Buysson 1896b: 472 (Poona [= Pune]; Karnataka: Mysore).

Chrysis fuscipennis var. dorsata du Buysson, 1896b: 472 nec Brullé, 1833. Syntypes; India: Poona [= Pune] (MNHN).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore ( NHMW) ; 1 ♀, Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar 19.vii.1935, leg. Guannar Jarring ( MNLU) ; 2 ♂, Delhi 3.–5.XI.29, Dr. Enslin ( MNLU) ; 4 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Salem , iii.1978, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 20.xii.1975 ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 15.x.1975 ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 28.ii.1976 ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 13.vii.1976 ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 3.iii.1978 ( MNLU) ; 6 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Settipatti , xi.1979, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 13.vii.1976 ( MNLU) .

Distribution. India (Bihar; Haryana; Jammu and Kashmir; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Tamil Nadu; West Bengal; Gujarat; Central Provinces (locality not specified)). Cosmopolitan species, widespread and/or introduced in all Zoogeographical regions ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Chrysis angolensis Radoszkowski, 1881, female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, frontal view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.