Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891: 195 . Holotype ♂; Iran [not Turkmenistan]: Sarakhs (ISEA-PAS). Bingham 1903: 438 (key), 475 (descr., Central provinces; Maharashtra: Bombay [= Mumbai]).

Chrysis seraxensis (!): du Buysson 1896b: 472 (key), 473 (descr., Central provinces, Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]).

Chrysis seraxensis (!) var. viridipes du Buysson 1896b: 473 . Holotype ♀; India: Province Centrales (depository unknown).

Chrysis sarakhsensis (!): Bingham 1908: 348 (cat., Bengal: Saraghat).

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) seraxensis (!): Bischoff 1913: 59 (cat., India).

Chrysis kokandica Radoszkowski, 1877: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 428 (cat., syn., splendidula group).

Distribution. India (Maharashtra; Central provinces (locality not specified); Saraghat; Western India (locality not specified)); Central Asia (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks. Indian records are doubtful and should be checked. Radoszkowski (1893) emended the name Chrysis saraksensis to Ch. seraxensis, without any comment. The name Chrysis seraxensis was later used by du Buysson in André (1896a: 728), Bischoff (1913: 59) and Semenov-Tian-Shanskij & Nikol’skaya (1954: 128). The emendation is unjustified according to the Art. 32.5.1 of the Code: incorrect transliteration or latinisation in the original description are not to be considered inadvertent errors. The name Chrysis saraksensis is the incorrect transliteration of a locality name written in Arabic (Rosa et al. 2015d). Chrysis saraksensis belongs to the maculicornis group and not to the splendidula group (Kimsey & Bohart 1991) or cerastes group (Linsenmaier 1994; Rosa et al. 2015d).