Hedychridium monochroum du Buysson, 1888

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 : 838

Hedychridium monochroum du Buysson, 1888

Hedychridium monochroum du Buysson, 1888:3 . Holotype ♀; France: Marseille (Paris?) ( monochroum group).

Hedychridium monochroum : Strumia et al., 2016b:53 ( Fars); Tavasoli & Fallahzadeh, 2015:82 ( Fars); Farzaneh et al., 2017:495 ( Fars).

Hedychridium monochroum farsensis Strumia & Fallahzadeh, 2016:53 ( Fars). Holotype ♀; Iran: Fars Province, Kheramh, 29°30'42''N, 53°18'55''E, 25.vi.2013, leg. E. Izadi (Pisa), syn. nov. Iranmanesh et al., 2017:297 ( Kerman); Falahatpisheh et al., 2019:3 ( Fars).

Distribution. Iran ( Fars, Kerman). Trans-Palaearctic from Europe to Armenia, Southern Caucasus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Oriental Region ( Rosa et al., 2017a).

Remarks. Hedychridium monochroum is well known for being a chromatically variable species ( Martynova, 2017), which is widespread and distributed from Western Europe to the Oriental region ( Kimsey & Bohart, 1991). The finding of a sympatric subspecies, H. monochroum farsensis , in the same localities of H. monochroum monochroum arises some doubts on the real status of this taxon, considering that the very short description of farsensis is based solely on colouration. Waiting for molecular analysis and a morphological re-evaluation of H. m. farsensis, we consider it as one of the colour variations and therefore a synonym of H. monochroum .