Chrysis sapphirina Semenov, 1912

Rosa, P., 2018, New records of cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from Russia with taxonomic notes, Far Eastern Entomologist 360, pp. 1-14 : 8-9

Chrysis sapphirina Semenov, 1912 , stat. n.

Figs 9, 10 , 16 , 21

Chrysis inaequalis var. sapphirina Semenov, 1912: 194 . Holotype – ♂, South-East Kazakhstan: Semirechye [ZIN], examined ( inaequalis group). Rosa et al. 2017 a: 30, 141 (Pl.

64). Chrysis inaequalis sapphirina: Rosa et al., 2017 b: 136 .

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Turkmenistan: Chaek, SE Dushak-Eregdag, Ko-

petdag, 25.VI 1991, 1♂, leg. Krivokhatskij [PRC]. Tajikistan: Kondara , 1100 m ,

Varsob, 28.VIII 1937, 1♂, leg. Gussakowski [ ZIN] .

DISTRIBUTION. South-East Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan.

mysticalis Linsenmaier ( Spain, Girona); 20 – C. placida Mocsáry , ♂ ( Orenburg Prov. ,

Semenovka); 21 – C. sapphirina Semenov , ♂ ( Turkmenistan); 22 – C. lucidovenalis

Tarbinsky, holotype ♂ ( Kyrgyzstan, Tian-Shan ). Scale bar: 1.0 mm .

REMARKS. This species has been confused for a long time with Chrysis poetica

Semenov (e.g. Linsenmaier, 1959, 1968; Schmidt, 1977) for the blue male body coloration ( Rosa et al., 2017 a: Plate 64). Linsenmaier (1959) e.g., without knowing the type, considered the wholly blue coloration of this as the already known con-

dition of other chrysidids, whose eastern forms are uniformly green to blue, as in C.

comparata orientalis Mocsáry, 1889. Nevertheless, C. sapphirina is no doubt a valid species, only known from Central Asian countries, easily recognizable for the shape of male genitalia ( Fig. 16 vs. Fig. 13 ), with inner side of gonocoxae largely arched. The genital capsula is more comparable to that of C. lucidovenalis Tarbinsky,

2002 (described from Tian-Shan), whose body punctation and apical teeth on the tergum 3 are anyway different ( Figs 11 , 21, 22 ).

Chrysis sapphirina is only known on male specimens; the female may have the typical coloration of C. inaequalis . The coloration is rather variable also in this species: the type is almost completely deep blue, with last tergum a little more greenish, while a specimen from Turkmenistan is entirely green ( Fig. 10 ) and another one from Tajikistan is green with the last tergum golden red ( Fig. 9 ), somehow similar to some male specimens of C. poetica Semenov.

Figures

Figs 7–11. 7 – Chrysis poetica Semenov, ♂ (Stavropol Terr., env. Kislovodsk); 8 – C.

Figs 12–16. Male genital capsule. 12 – Chrysis inaequalis Dahlbom, ♂ (Italy, Aosta Valley); 13 – C. poetica Semenov, ♂ (Karachayevo-Cherkess Rep., Teberda Nat. Res.); 14 – C. mysticalis Linsenmaier (Spain, Girona); 15 – C. placida Mocsáry, ♂ (Orenburg Prov., Semenovka); 16 – C. sapphirina Semenov, ♂ (Tajikistan, Kondara). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.

Figs 17–22. Metasomal tergum 3. 17 – Chrysis inaequalis Dahlbom, ♂ (Italy, Emilia- Romagna); 18 – C. poetica Semenov, ♂ (Stavropol Terr., Mineralnye Vody); 19 – C.