Hedychridium cupreum (Dahlbom, 1845)

Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-sen & Xu, Zai-fu, 2014, An annotated checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, ZooKeys 455, pp. 1-128 : 10-11

40. Hedychridium cupreum (Dahlbom, 1845) Plate 7

Hedychrum cupreum Dahlbom, 1845: 3. Lectotype ♀ design. by Paukkunen et al. (2014), Sweden [nec Switzerland] (3 (descr.), depository: NHMW)*.

Hedychridium integrum f. cupratum : Tsuneki 1948a: 123 (China: Shanxi: Chenhaissu, cat.), 128 (Shanxi, cat.).

Distribution.

China (Shanxi). Widely distributed from central and northern Europe to West Asia ( Linsenmaier 1959, 1997a).

Remarks.

The species was listed as cupratum Dahlbom by Tsuneki (1948a), a species endemic to the European Alps and is to be excluded from the Chinese fauna. It is likely that Tsuneki was referring to cupreum (Dahlbom, 1854), which is widely distributed from central and northern Europe all the way to West Asia.