Trichrysis seducta ( Smith, 1860 )

Rosa, Paolo, 2023, New records for the Indian cuckoo wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of two new species and remarks on types of Smith and Cameron, Journal of Natural History 57 (29 - 32), pp. 1396-1433 : 1427-1428

Trichrysis seducta ( Smith, 1860)

( Figure 19A–19F )

Chrysis seducta Smith, 1860, p. 67 . Syntypes ♀, Indonesia: Makassar ( OUMUK).

Trichrysis seducta : Bohart in Kimsey and Bohart [1990] 1991, p. 573 (lectotype design., Celebes, Makassar ).

Material examined

1♀: [ Indonesia (Sulawesi)] Mak. [= Makassar ]/ Chrysis seducta Smith , HOLOTYPE ( OUMUK); 1♀: Chrysis seducta Smith [ OUMUK].

Remarks

Smith (1860) described Chrysis seducta based on an unknown number of specimens. Bohart in Kimsey and Bohart ([1990] 1991) designated the lectotype without pinning any identification label with the selected specimen. As already noticed by Rosa (2009), Rosa et al. (2017 b, 2020), and WiŚniowski in Rosa et al. (2022a), Bohart often designated lectotypes in European museums without pinning any identification label on the selected type, thus making the identification of the lectotype impossible and, therefore, invalid. In the OUMUK type collection two specimens belonging to two different species of Trichrysis bear the same light blue identification label of Chrysis seducta handwritten by Smith, but only one bears the locality label ′Mak̍. and a recently added round red type label. I consider this specimen to be the lectotype designated by Bohart ( Figure 19 ).

Figures

Figure 19. Trichrysis seducta (Smith, 1860), lectotype ♀. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, frontal view. D. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, lateral view. F. Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.