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Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski 1877

Description

Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877

(Plate 7A–D)

Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski 1877: 17.

Type locality: Uzbekistan: “Habitat in deserto prope Taschkent”, [collected on the 19th of May 1871 in steppe between Syr-Darya and Tashkent].

Lectotype, ♂: 19. <printed on pink label with red line> // Степъ м. С. д. и Т [steppe b[between] S[Syr] D[Darya] and T.[Tashkent]] <printed> // Chrysis speciosa Rad. <handwritten red label> // 19.V.1871 <handwritten by Antropov>.

Remarks. Lectotype designated by Bohart (in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 464). The type is kept together with another specimen labelled as C. speciosa by Radoszkowski. The latter does not belong to the type series and bears the following labels: 1. <printed on green-blue label> // Заравш. дол [Zaravsh. valley] <printed> // speciosa <handwritten by Radoszkowski> // Chrysis speciosa Rad. <handwritten red label> // 1.VI.1869 // Not a type of speciosa <handwritten by Bohart>. This specimen belongs to a different species-group, C. comparata group, and it is very likely a male of C. marginata Mocsáry, 1889.

After type examination (Rosa et al. 2015), C. fulvicornis Mocsáry, 1889 is found to be the junior synonym of C. speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877. The name C. fulvicornis is currently in use, but the reversal of precedence is not possible because the conditions listed by the Code (ICZN 1999: Article 23.9.1) are not applicable in this case. It belongs to the C. maculicornis species-group.

Current status. Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877.

PLATE 7. Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877, lectotype, ♂. A. Head and mesosoma, lateral view B. Head, frontal view C. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view D. T2–T3, dorsal view.

Notes

Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Antropov, Alexander V. & Xu, Zaifu, 2015, A catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) types deposited in the Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia, pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 3990 (1) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289112

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Biodiversity

Family
Chrysididae
Genus
Chrysis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Radoszkowski
Species
speciosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski, 1877 sec. Rosa, Antropov & Xu, 2015

References

  • Radoszkowski, O. (1877) Chrysidiformes, Mutillidae et Sphegidae. In: Putieshestvie v Turkestan A. P. Fedtshenko [Voyage au Turkestan d'Alexis Fedtschenko], (14) 2 (5), Sankt-Petersburg, pp. 1 - 87. + 8 plates.
  • Kimsey, L. S. & Bohart, R. M. [1991 (1990)] The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press, New York, i - ix + 652 pp.
  • Mocsary, A. (1889) Monographia Chrysididarum Orbis Terrarum Universi. Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 643 pp.