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Chrysis schencki Linsenmaier 1968

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59. Chrysis schencki Linsenmaier, 1968

Chrysis ignita schenckiana Linsenmaier 1959: 156, nom. praeocc., nec Mocsáry, 1912. Holotype ♀; Switzerland: Graubünden (NMLS) (examined). Valkeila 1962: 64.

Chrysis ignita schencki Linsenmaier 1968: 99, replacement name for schenckiana Linsenmaier, 1959.

Chrysis schencki: Vikberg 1986b: 68, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Hedström 1987: 156, Hedström 1989: 154, Nilsson 1991: 86, Soon 2004: 23, 46, Hellqvist 2008: 34, Sörensson 2008a: 80, Johansson 2009, Artsdatabanken 2010, Johansson 2010: 118, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 151, Sörensson 2010: 68, Johansson 2011: 35, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Soon & Saarma 2011: 15,

Franzén et al. 2012: 27, Hallin 2012, Ranta 2012: 33, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013, Soon et al. 2014: 314–315.

Chrysis schenckiana: Silfverberg 1981: 61, Karlsson 2008.

Chrysis ignita: Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 45 [part.], Valtonen 2003: 25 [nec (Linnaeus, 1758)], Humala & Polevoi 2009: 63 [nec (Linnaeus, 1758)]. Chrysis sp.: Humala & Polevoi 2011: 278.

Material examined. * Latvia: Baldone, 16.VI.1968, 1 ♀ (V. Maršakovs); Kalngale, 25.VI.1973, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs); Ropaži, 20.VIII.1965, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs); Zabludovka, 3.VII.1967, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs). *Russian Fennoscandia: Kton: Vodlozersky National Park, Okhtoma, VII–IX.2001, 2 ♀♀ (A. Humala) (Humala & Polevoi 2009: 63, as C. ignita); Lps: Pasvik Nature Reserve, Vaarlam island, 3.VIII–10.X.2007, Malaise trap, 1 ♀ (A. Humala) (Humala & Polevoi 2011: 278, as Chrysis sp.).

Distribution. Estonia, Finland, * Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, *Russian Fennoscandia.—Transpalearctic: from West Europe to central Asia, Siberia and Japan (Linsenmaier 1997).

Remarks. The species is common and widespread in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The northernmost records are from Finnish Lapland (Li: Utsjoki) and Murmansk Oblast (Lps: Pasvik Nature Reserve, Humala & Polevoi 2011). As many other species of the C. ignita group, C. schencki was not separated from C. ignita until the late 1950s, when it was described by Linsenmaier as a subspecies of C. ignita.

In the study of Estonian Chrysididae by Soon (2004) C. schencki was confused with C. corusca. Further studies, including a study of type specimens of both species, have revealed that both species occur in Estonia. Studies of mitochondrial DNA have shown that C. schencki significantly differs genetically from other closely related species of the Chrysis ignita complex (Soon et al. 2014). However, morphologically the males in particular can be very difficult to determine. Females are usually relatively well distinguished by their thin mandibles (Smissen 2010). According to recent DNA barcode analyses, C. schencki can be divided into two distinct genetic lineages in northern Europe (Soon et al. 2014). Preliminary studies suggest that there could be also slight morphological differences between the lineages.

Notes

Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433

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