Chrysis wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b

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 : 70-71

Chrysis wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b

( Figs 68 A–68D, 69A–69E)

Chrysis Wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b: 469 . Lectotype ♀ designated by Bohart in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 479; India: Maha- rashtra: Bombay: Poona [= Pune] (469 (key), 469–470 (descr.), pl. III (fig. 2), pl. V (fig. 7)) (MNHN) (examined).

Chrysis abuensis Nurse, 1902: 307 . Syntypes ♀ ♂, India: Rajastan: Mount Abu (HMNH, NHMUK, NHMW) (examined), syn. nov. Bingham 1903: 436 (key), 446–447 (descr., Mount Abu, 4000 ft, in Rajputana), pl. I (fig. 10); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 379 (cat., India, capitalis group); Rosa et al. 2017d: 17 (cat., typ., India: Mt. Abu); Rosa et al. 2020a: 27 (cat., typ., fig. 1).

Chrysis wroughtoni: Bingham 1903: 435 (key), 443 (descr., Bombay presidency, Poona (Wroughton); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 479 (cat., India, capitalis group).

Chrysis (Holochrysis) abuensis: Bischoff 1913: 37 (cat., India).

Chrysis (Holochrysis) wroughtoni: Bischoff 1913: 42 (cat., India).

Material examined. 1 ♀, syntype, Baluchistan, Abu, leg. G. Nurse, det. du Buysson ( NHMW) ; 5 ♀, syntypes, same labels ( HNHM) .

Distribution. India (Maharashtra; Rajasthan).

Remarks. Apparently, Nurse (1902) did not know du Buysson (1896b) and redescribed Chrysis wroughtoni with the name Ch. abuensis . Specimens of Chrysis abuensis are distinctly larger (9–11 mm) than the types of Ch. wroughtoni (6–7 mm), nevertheless any other morphological difference was observed and therefore we here synonymise Ch. abuensis Nurse, 1902 , syn. nov. with Ch. wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b .

Genus Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845

Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845: 6 . Type species: Chrysis austriaca Fabricius, 1804 , by subsequent designation of Bodenstein 1939: 125.

Figures

FIGURE 68. Chrysis wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896, holotype, female. A. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. D. Metasoma, lateral view. E. Metasoma, posterior view. F. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.