Chrysis lyncea Fabricius 1775
Authors/Creators
- 1. University of Mons, Institute of Bioscience, Zoology Lab, Place du parc, 20, Mons (Belgium)
- 2. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, PO Box 12613, Giza (Egypt)
Description
Chrysis lyncea Fabricius, 1775
(Fig. 8)
Chrysis lincea Fabricius, 1775: 357.
Chrysis lyncea – Fabricius 1781: 455 (emendation of lincea Fabricius, 1775).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype • sex unknown; Sierra Leone, type possibly lost.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Yemen • 2 ♀; Wadi Higgan; 7.VIII.1936; M.T. leg.; EFC.
DIAGNOSIS. — Body length: 8.0- 12 mm. Body colour varying from entirely green to blue, with or without darker or purple reflections; legs including basitarsi metallic green; scapal basin punctate-rugose; first flagellomere reduced in both sexes (l/w = 1); pronotal humeral angle strongly produced, acute; metanotal mucron elongate, triangular, medially carinate and apically blunt and impunctate (Fig. 8B); mesopleuron largely smooth, polished medially (Fig. 8C), with two distinct ventral teeth, the lower of which conspicuously large, pointed and sharply carinate; lateral tooth on third tergum small, placed basally (Fig. 8E); wings darkened; metasomal sterna metallic green, with two small, oval black spots widely separated from lateral margin and between each other (Fig. 8F).
DISTRIBUTION IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. — Oman, United Arab Emirates (Linsenmaier 1994 as C. (Pyria) lyncea; Howarth & Gillett 2008; Strumia 2008), Yemen (new record).
EXTRALIMITAL DISTRIBUTION. — Cyprus (Linsenmaier 1959, 1994, 1999), Sub-Saharan Africa (Linsenmaier 1959, 1994, 1999), Northern Africa.
REMARK
Other taxa described as variations of C. lyncea from Oriental and Australian regions are currently under revision and will be elevated to species rank.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EFC
- Event date
- 1936-08-07
- Verbatim event date
- 1936-08-07
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Masaridae
- Genus
- Chrysis
- Species
- lyncea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysis lyncea Fabricius, 1775 sec. Neveen, Gadallah & Edmardash, 2025
References
- FABRICIUS J. C. 1775. - Systema entomologiae, sistens Insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonimis, locis, desriptionibus, observationibus. Korti, Flensburgi et Lipsiae, 832 p. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.36510
- FABRICIUS J. C. 1781. - Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adjectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomo I. C. E. Bohnii, Hambugi et Kiloni, 522 p. + viii p. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11658
- BUYSSON DU R. 1898 [" 1897 "]. - Etude des Chrysidides du Museum de Paris. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 66: 518 - 580, pls 1-2.
- MOCSARY A. 1913. - Species Chrysididarum novae. IV. Annales Historico-naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 11: 1-45.
- LINSENMAIER W. 1994. - The Chrysididae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 145-206.
- HOWARTH B. & GILLETT M. P. T. 2008. - The terrestrial and freshwater arthropods of Abu Dhabi Emirate, in PERRY R. J. (ed.), Terrestrial Environment of Abu Dhabi Emirate. Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi: 380-463.
- STRUMIA F. 2008. - Order Hymenoptera, family Chrysididae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 1: 375-387.
- LINSENMAIER W. 1959. - Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der europaischen Spezies. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 32 (1): 1-232.
- LINSENMAIER W. 1999. - Die ̿ oldwespen Nordafrikas (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Entomofauna 10 (Supplement): 1-210.