Chrysis schioedtei Dahlbom, 1854

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 61

Chrysis schioedtei Dahlbom, 1854

( Figs 58 A–58E)

Chrysis Schi ӧdtei Dahlbom, 1854: 309. Holotype ♀; India: Tamil Nadu: Tranquebaria (ZMUC) (examined). Dalla Torre 1892: 92 (cat., India); du Buysson 1896b: 477 (key), 478 (cat., Assam: Margherita; Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]; Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry).

Chrysis (Hexachrysis) Schi ӧdtei: Mocsáry 1889: 544–545 (descr., India Orientalis, Pondicherry); Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., Assam).

Chrysis schioedtei: Bingham 1903: 440 (key), 489–490 (descr., Gujarat: Punjab; Central Provinces; Maharashtra: western India, Poona [= Pune], Gujarat: Deesa); du Buysson 1904: 273 (cat., Sikkim).

Chrysis schiodti (!): Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (widely distributed in India).

Chrysis schiodtei (!): Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 459 (cat., India, smaragdula group).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Kerala, Walayar forest, Malabar , without further data ( NHMW) ; 2 ♀, Meghalaya, Khasia Hills , wihtout further data ( ETHZ) ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Odisha, Bhubaneswar , without further data ( NHMW) ; 5 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore , without further data ( NHMW) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram , I.1952, leg. Nathan ( MNLU) ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, idem, IX.1951, leg. Nathan ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Settipatti , 13.vii.1975, leg. W. Perraudin ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 21.vii.1975 ( MNLU) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry [= Puducherry], Karaikal, iv.2002, leg. T. Nathan ( PRC) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore , viii.1975, leg. Nathan ( PRC) .

Distribution. India (Assam; Chhattisgarh; Gujarat; Kerala; Maharashtra; Meghalaya; Odisha; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; India Orientalis (locality not specified); Central Provinces (locality not specified); Western India (locality not specified)). Oriental and Australian ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks. Bohart (in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 460) designated the lectotype based on the holotype specimen. Dahlbom (1854) described Chrysis schioedtei on a single holotype specimen “ Specimen unicum in Tranquebaria lectum communicavit D. Westermann ”.

Figures

FIGURE 58. Chrysis schioedtei Dahlbom, 1854, female from Tamil Nadu. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.