Chrysis arrestans Nurse, 1903

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 : 1410-1412

Chrysis arrestans Nurse, 1903

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Chrysis arrestans Nurse, 1903, p. 42 . Holotype ♀; India: Gujarat: Deesa (NHMUK) ( smaragdula group).

Material examined

1♀: Deesa 9.01/ Chrysis arrestans (Nurse) /Type / ♀ /Col. C.G. Nurse Collection. 1920–72/ Holotype /B.M. TYPE HYM. 13.140/ NHMUK 014420273 [ NHMUK].

Distribution

India ( Gujarat). Pakistan ( Nurse 1903).

Remarks

Chrysis arrestans Nurse belongs to the smaragdula group. Neither the type nor another specimen was illustrated in Rosa et al. (2021a). In Figure 6 the holotype female is illustrated.

Figures

Figure 6. Chrysis arrestans Nurse, 1903, holotype ♀. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Metasoma, ventral view. D. Head, frontal view. E. Metasoma, latero-dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.