Chrysis mossulensis Abeille de Perrin & du Buysson, 1887

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 : 889

Chrysis mossulensis Abeille de Perrin & du Buysson, 1887 ( Figs 25A–E, H)

Chrysis erratica mossulensis Abeille de Perrin & du Buysson [in du Buysson], 1887:190. Syntypes ♀; Iraq: Mosul ( Paris).

Material examined. 1♂, Khorasan-e Razavi province: 33 km W of Sabzvaran [=Sabzevar], 1100m, 6.- 7.v.1973, locality n°189, Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha ( NHMP) .

Distribution. * Iran ( Khorasan-e Razavi). Iraq ( Rosa, 2024).

Remarks. The specimen examined is a male and its identification is doubtful. As recently shown by Rosa (2024), the fuscipennis group (ex angolensis group) includes several species whose distinction is based on the shape of the genital capsule, the transverse frontal carina, the body punctation and the shape of the lower mesopleuron. The Iranian specimen does not match the African specimen of C. callaina Gribodo, 1884 for the different shape of the head ( Fig. 25A), which is similar to C. fuscipennis , and the genital capsule ( Fig. 25E), which is more elongate with acute inner angles of gonocoxae. It does not match the Oriental C. erratica Abeille de Perrin & du Buysson, 1887 for the shape of the transverse frontal carina curved and the genital capsule elongate and it does not match C. fuscipennis s.str. for the dense, coarse punctures. The only possibility is that this is the unknown male of C. mossulensis , which is separated from the female by the downcurved frontal carina, and pointed teeth of the lower mesopleuron. More material of both sexes is needed for a correct identification and sex association.