Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891

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 : 60

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891: 195 . Holotype ♂; Iran [not Turkmenistan]: Sarakhs (ISEA-PAS). Bingham 1903: 438 (key), 475 (descr., Central provinces; Maharashtra: Bombay [= Mumbai]).

Chrysis seraxensis (!): du Buysson 1896b: 472 (key), 473 (descr., Central provinces, Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]).

Chrysis seraxensis (!) var. viridipes du Buysson 1896b: 473 . Holotype ♀; India: Province Centrales (depository unknown).

Chrysis sarakhsensis (!): Bingham 1908: 348 (cat., Bengal: Saraghat).

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) seraxensis (!): Bischoff 1913: 59 (cat., India).

Chrysis kokandica Radoszkowski, 1877 : Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 428 (cat., syn., splendidula group).

Distribution. India (Maharashtra; Central provinces (locality not specified); Saraghat; Western India (locality not specified)); Central Asia ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks. Indian records are doubtful and should be checked. Radoszkowski (1893) emended the name Chrysis saraksensis to Ch. seraxensis , without any comment. The name Chrysis seraxensis was later used by du Buysson in André (1896a: 728), Bischoff (1913: 59) and Semenov-Tian-Shanskij & Nikol’skaya (1954: 128). The emendation is unjustified according to the Art. 32.5.1 of the Code: incorrect transliteration or latinisation in the original description are not to be considered inadvertent errors. The name Chrysis saraksensis is the incorrect transliteration of a locality name written in Arabic ( Rosa et al. 2015d). Chrysis saraksensis belongs to the maculicornis group and not to the splendidula group ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991) or cerastes group ( Linsenmaier 1994; Rosa et al. 2015d).