Trichrysis lusca ( Fabricius, 1804 )

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 81-82

Trichrysis lusca ( Fabricius, 1804)

( Figs 82 A–82D)

Chrysis lusca Fabricius, 1804: 171 . Holotype ♀; Italy (accidentally introduced) (ZMUC) (examined). du Buysson 1896: 475 (key), 476 (Central provinces; Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Karnataka: Bangalore [= Bengaluru], Rajabrampoor, Mysore; Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry); Dalla Torre 1892: 76 (cat., India); du Buysson 1898b: 76 (Hindoustan [= India]: North Konkan); du Buysson 1900: 153 (Balasore [= Baleshwar]); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 484 (descr., throughout India); Bingham 1908: 349 (West Bengal: Murshidabad, it occurs throughout India); Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 ( India: Arunachal Pradesh); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22 (cat., Gujarat).

Chrysis (Pentachrysis) lusca: Mocsáry 1889: 527–528 (descr., India orientalis, Rajarampore, Neelgherries , Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry, Tranquebar [= Tharangambadi]); Bischoff 1913: 62 (cat., India).

Praestochrysis lusca: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 533 (cat., India).

Chrysis bengalensis Mocsáry, 1889: 527 . Holotype ♀; India Orientalis, Maharashtra: Bombay (HNHM). Dalla Torre 1892: 47 (cat., India); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 482–483 (descr., Maharashtra: Bombay, Madras [= Chennai]); Bingham 1908: 349 (Bihar: Purneah [= Purnia].

Chrysis (Pentachrysis) bengalensis: Bischoff 1913: 62 (cat., India).

Trichrysis lusca: Suresh et al. 1999: 2 (Kerala: Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary) (tab.1); Mathew 2004: 219 (cat., Kerala).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Bombay leg. Stockinger, 755-1, Bengalensis Mocs. typ. det. Mocsáry Chrysis lusca F. Linsenmaier det. 62, Holotypus Chrysis bengalensis ♀ Mocs. RMB, id nr. 135510 HNHM Hym.coll. ( HNHM); 2 ♀, Karikal, Malabar, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Kerala, Thenmala, v.1985, leg. Nathan ( PRC); 12 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, viii.1932, leg. Nathan ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram, 22.ix.1951, leg. S. Nathan ( MNLU); 3 ♀, idem, ix.1951 ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Settipatti, 13.vi.1975, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 16.vi.1975 ( MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 3.vii.1976 ( MNLU); 3 ♀, idem, xi.1979 ( MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Salem, Settipatti, 14.x.1975, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 5.xi.1975 ( MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 29.xi.1975 ( MNLU); 4 ♀, idem, iii.1978 ( MNLU).

Distribution. India (Bihar; Chhattisgarh; Karnataka; Kerala; Maharashtra; Odisha; Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; West Bengal; Rajarampore; Nilgiris); China (Hubei, Hunan, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Macao, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan) ( Rosa et al. 2016a); Australia, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991); Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar ( Jonathan et al. 1977), Sri Lanka, Vietnam ( Rosa et al. 2016a). Afrotropical: Mauritius and Réunion ( Azevedo et al. 2010).

Figures

FIGURE 82. Trichrysis lusca (Fabricius, 1804), female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Metasoma, posterior view. D. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.