Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar, 1953

Rosa, Paolo, Farhad, Afrouz, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Ameri, Ali, Baiocchi, Daniele, Halada, Marek & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2024, The Iranian Chrysididae (Hymenoptera), the current state of the art, with an updated checklist and description of eleven new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (4), pp. 827-951 : 840

Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar, 1953

Hedychridium sculpturatum var. palestinense Balthasar, 1953:145 . Syntypes ♂, ♀; Palestine: Jerusalem (Prague). Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959a:63 . Unnecessary replacement name for H. palestinense Balthasar, 1953 . Hedychridium palestinense : Rosa et al., 2013:6 (Qazvin, Markazi); Falahatpisheh et al., 2019:4 (Fars).

Hedychridium maculisternum : Arens, 2011:316 (replacement name for Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959 ): Strumia & Fallahzadeh, 2015:17 ( Fars); Strumia et al., 2016b:53 ( Fars); Iranmanesh et al., 2017:297 ( Kerman).

Distribution. Iran ( Fars, Kerman, Markazi, Qazvin). Armenia, Palestine ( Balthasar, 1953); Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan ( Linsenmaier, 1997).

Remarks. The name Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar, 1953 is the valid name for this taxon ( Arens, 2010). The replacement name Hedychridium maculisternum Arens, 2011 was given to replace the name of Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959 proposed for a Balkan species, which is not present in Iran.