Chrysis fulgida Linnaeus, 1761

Rosa, Paolo, Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Halada, Marek & Aibek, Ulykpan, 2020, First checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of Mongolia, with description of new species, ZooKeys 999, pp. 49-107 : 49

Chrysis fulgida Linnaeus, 1761

Chrysis fulgida Linnaeus, 1761: 415. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Morgan 1984: 9); Sweden: Uppsala (LSL) ( ignita group).

Material examined.

Mongolia: (Form A): Arkhangai, 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, 70 km NE of Tsetserleg, 25.VII.2005, leg. JH (MHC); Selenge, 1 ♂, 90 km N of Ulaanbaatar, Segnez River, 1450 m, 6-8.VII.2003, leg. JH (MHC); Tuv, 5 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂, 50 km E of Ulaanbaatar, Tuul River, 22.VI.2003, leg. JH (MHC); (Form B): Arkhangai, 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, 70 km NE of Tsetserleg, 25.VII.2005, leg. JH (MHC); 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Chuluut Gol River, 47°48'N, 100°19'E, 23.VII.2005, leg. JH (MHC); Tuv, 1 ♀, 50 km E of Ulaanbaatar, Tuul River, 22.VI.2003, leg. JH (MHC).

Distribution.

*Mongolia (Arkhangai, Selenge, Tuv); Asiatic-European, from Europe to eastern Siberia, Russian Far East and North-East China (Manchuria) ( Rosa et al. 2014, 2019).

Remarks.

Two distinct colour forms (Fig. 4 ) are recorded from Mongolia, Siberia and Primorsky Territory (Russia), and Heilongjiang (China). Form A is matching with the typical European Chrysis fulgida (Fig. 4A, C ). Form B is chromatic different without the typical blue colouration on male and female metasoma and with non-metallic black areas on head vertex and mesosoma (Fig. 4B, D ). Male T1 golden-greenish, with or without a narrow transversal green or bluish stripe or patch; T2 red, with or without a basal, narrow black stripe; female T1 golden-greenish, with green to bluish colour on T1 frontal declivity to petiolar insertion. This colour variation has also been observed in specimens from Russia (Siberia and Primorsky Territory) and China (Heilongjiang). The Chinese form was mentioned by Linsenmaier (1968) as Chrysis aequicolor Linsenmaier, 1968, which is anyway an unnecessary replacement name for Chrysis fulgida var. concolor Mocsáry, 1912 nec Mocsáry, 1892 (actually male and female of the same taxon). Other evident different morphological characteristics are not recognizable. However, these two forms may represent two sister species, genetically separate, but difficult to identify on the basis of morphological characteristics, as in other known cases of Chrysis of the ignita group (Paukkunen et al. 2015; Orlovskytė et al. 2016).

Figures

Figure 4. Chrysis fulgida Linnaeus, habitus dorsal view A form A, ♀ B form B, ♀ C form A, ♂ D form B, ♂. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.