<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Chrysis speciosa Radoszkowski 1877</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Radoszkowski, 1877</h1> <p>(Plate 7 A–D)</p> <p> <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Radoszkowski 1877: 17.</p> <p> <b>Type locality</b>: Uzbekistan: “Habitat in deserto prope Taschkent”, [collected on the 19 th of May 1871 in steppe between Syr-Darya and Tashkent].</p> <p> <b>Lectotype</b>, ♂: 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> // <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Rad. <handwritten red label> // 19.V. 1871 <handwritten by Antropov>.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>. Lectotype designated by Bohart (in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 464). The type is kept together with another specimen labelled as <i>C. speciosa</i> 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> // <i>speciosa</i> <handwritten by Radoszkowski> // <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Rad. <handwritten red label> // 1.VI. 1869 // Not a type of <i>speciosa</i> <handwritten by Bohart>. This specimen belongs to a different species-group, <i>C. comparata</i> group, and it is very likely a male of <i>C. marginata</i> Mocsáry, 1889.</p> <p>After type examination (Rosa <i>et al.</i> 2015), <i>C. fulvicornis</i> Mocsáry, 1889 is found to be the junior synonym of <i>C. speciosa</i> Radoszkowski, 1877. The name <i>C. fulvicornis</i> 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 <i>C. maculicornis</i> species-group.</p> <p> <b>Current status</b>. <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Radoszkowski, 1877.</p> <p> <b>PLATE 7</b>. <i>Chrysis speciosa</i> Radoszkowski, 1877, lectotype, ♂. <b>A.</b> Head and mesosoma, lateral view <b>B.</b> Head, frontal view <b>C.</b> Head and mesosoma, dorsal view <b>D.</b> T 2 –T 3, dorsal view.</p> </body> </html>