Trichrysis imperiosa (Smith, 1874)

Fig. 7B

Chrysis imperiosus Smith, 1874: 460 .

Chrysis imperiosa – du Buysson 1898a: 142. — Bingham 1903: 438 (in key), 479–480, fig. 159, pl. I fig. 13.

Chrysis (Pentachrysis) imperiosa – Bischoff 1910: 486.

Chrysis (Trichrysis) imperiosa – Roy & Kundu 1985: 227.

Praestochrysis lusca – Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 533.

Praestochrysis imperiosa – Strumia 1996: 62, fig. 3.

Trichrysis imperiosa – Rosa et al. 2021a: 79, fig. 80.

Material examined

Lectotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; “50, 70”; “ Chrysis, imperiosus, Type Smith”; “B.M. TYPE HYM 13.146”; “Lectotype Chrysis imperiosus ♀, F. Smith, R.M. Bohart ”; “Lectotype”; “BMNH(E) #970896”; BMNH.

Other material INDIA • 3 ♀♀; Meghalaya, Khasia Hills; ETHZ • 1 ♀, Kerala, Travancore; May 1935; NMLU • 1 ♀; Kerala, Quilon (= Kollam), Thenmala; leg. Nathan; PRC.

Distribution

India (Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh); China (Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan) (Rosa et al. 2016); Australia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka (Bingham 1903); Vietnam (Kimsey & Bohart 1991); Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Thailand (Rosa et al. 2016).

Remarks

Although further revision is required, multiple species are to be included under the name of Trichrysis imperiosa . The Indian species could belong to Trichrysis cupreidorsus (Tsuneki, 1963) (Rosa et al. 2021a), described from Thailand and synonymised by Kimsey & Bohart (1991) with Praestochrysis lusca (Fabricius, 1804), without type examination. For the moment, we maintain the assessment given by Rosa et al. (2021a).