Chrysis festina Smith, 1874

Rosa, Paolo, 2023, New records for the Indian cuckoo wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of two new species and remarks on types of Smith and Cameron, Journal of Natural History 57 (29 - 32), pp. 1396-1433 : 1422-1424

Chrysis festina Smith, 1874

( Figure 16A–16F )

Chrysis festinus Smith 1874, p. 462 . Syntypes J, ♀; Australia: Western Australia, Perth ( NHMUK, OUMUK)

Chrysis festina : Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 410 (cat., smaragdula group).

Chrysis festina : lectotype here designated, ♀, W. Australia, Chrysis festinans Type Smith, B. M. Type Hym. 13.144, Lectotype Chrysis festinus ♀ F. Smith R.M. Bohart , Lectotype, NHMUK 014420278 (NHMUK).

Material examined

1♀: W. Australia / Chrysis festinans [!] Type Smith/B.M. Type Hym. 13.144/ Lectotype Chrysis festinus ♀ F. Smith R.M. Bohart / Lectotype / NHMUK 014420278 [ NHMUK]; 1J: Australia./ Chrysis festinans [!] Type Smith/Coll. Smith 1879/ Chrysis festina J F. Smith R. Bohart det./ Type Hym: 1332 Chrysis festinas [!] Smith Hope Dept. Oxford [ OUMUK].

Remarks

Smith (1874) described Chrysis festina based on two syntype specimens, as explicitly stated in the text: ′The male exactly resembles the female. Both have seven teeth̍, from Smith 1874, p. 463. Bohart, during one of his research visits to British museums, labelled the female syntype housed at NHMUK as lectotype ( Figure 16A ) and he also examined the male syntype from OUMUK ( Figure 16B ). However, the lectotype designation has never been published, and in Kimsey and Bohart ([1990] 1991) the female specimen housed at NHMUK was considered to be the holotype. This definition does not automatically designate the specimen as lectotype by inference from the term ′ holotype ̍ ( ICZN, Art. 74.5) because the species was described based on more specimens. In this context, I herewith designate the female specimens selected by Bohart and deposited at NHMUK as the lectotype ( Figure 16A, C–F ) .

Figures

Figure 16. Chrysis festina Smith, 1874, syntype ♀. A. Habitus, dorsal view. C. Head, frontal view. D. head and mesosoma, lateral view. E. Mesosoma, postero-lateral view. F. Metasoma, ventral view. B. Syntype J, habitus, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.