Hedychrum cyaneum Mocsáry in Radoszkowski, 1889

Rosa, Paolo & Greeff, Michael, 2021, Types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Zootaxa 4908 (2), pp. 181-204 : 197

Hedychrum cyaneum Mocsáry in Radoszkowski, 1889

Hedychrum cyaneum Mocsáry in Radoszkowski, 1889: 10 , nom. praeocc. nec Brullé, 1846. Syntypes ♂ ♀; Russia: Eastern Siberia (ISEA-PAS).

Hedychrum simile Mocsáry, 1889: 158 . Replacement name for Hedychrum cyaneum Mocsáry in Radoszkowski 1889 nec Brullé, 1846.

Type locality: Russia: “ Sibérie orientale ”.

Possible syntype, ♂: Raddefka [= Evreyskaya automomous Prov.: Radde] // 716 // simile <handwritten in red> det. Mocs. [!] // Schulthess Rechberg Collection .

Remarks. This male is labelled as type, it was collected in the Russian Far East (thus matching the original type locality), and it is morphologically similar to the male syntype housed in Radoszkowski’s collection at ISEA-PAS. For these reasons, it is considered a syntype.

Mocsáry (in Radoszkowski 1889) described Hedychrum cyaneum (later replaced with the name He. simile ) based on a type series [♂ ♀]. In the original description only the type locality Sibérie orientale [= East Siberia or Far East] is mentioned. Currently only one male from Siberia is housed in Radoszkowski’s collection at ISEA-PAS ( Rosa et al. 2015d). After the original description, Mocsáry (1889: 158), under the replacement name He. simile , extended the type locality: “Siberia orientalis (Coll. Rad.! et Mus. Hung.) and China borealis (Ta-tschian-sy, Mus. Hung.)”. French (in Bohart & French 1986) designated the female specimen from China listed by Mocsáry (1889) as the lectotype, even if it was not mentioned in the original description ( Radoszkowski 1889). For this reason, the lectotype designation was considered invalid ( Rosa et al. 2017b).