Chrysis branicki Radoszkovsky, 1877

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 11

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis branicki Radoszkovsky, 1877

Chrysis Branicki Radoszkovsky 1877 (1876): 107.

Type locality.

“apportée d’Egypte pendant le voyage du comte Branicki".

Syntype

1♀ [box 60]: Eldar Caucas [printed].

Syntype

1♀ [box 60]: Caucas [printed].

Remarks.

The type locality is probably misinterpreted: Radoszkowski gave “Egypt” as the type locality, but the true type locality should be Caucasus. In fact, the original description is provided in a paper discussing the Russian Hymenoptera ( Matériaux pour servir à une faune hyménoptèròlogique de la Russie) in which all of the other species described were collected in Caucasus. In the same journal, Radoszkowsky listed the material collected in Egypt by Count Branicki, the Polish nobleman who financed many scientific trips to Egypt and who sponsored Professor Waga, Radoszkowski’s teacher (Comte-rendu des Hyménoptères recueillis en Egypte et Abyssinie en 1873). Radoszkowski dedicated this chrysidid to Branicki, and most likely confused the localities. One syntype is also deposited in MNHU. It belongs to the Chrysis bihamata group.

Current status.

Chrysis branickii Radoszkovsky, 1877 (emended by Radoszkovsky 1877: 146).