Chrysis chalcites Mocsáry, 1890

Rosa, Paolo & Greeff, Michael, 2021, Types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Zootaxa 4908 (2), pp. 181-204 : 183

Chrysis chalcites Mocsáry, 1890

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Chrysis (Gonochrysis) chalcites Mocsáry, 1890: 55 . Holotype ♀; Russia: Sarepta (ETHZ).

Chrysis chalcites: Dalla Torre 1892: 49 (cat., Russia).

Spinolia chalcites: du Buysson in André 1893: 249 (cat., descr., key, southern Russia, Sarepta); Bischoff 1913: 25 (cat., southern Russia); Trautmann 1927: 87 (key), 89 (cat., descr., distr., southern Russia); Balthasar 1953: 64 (key, southern Russia); Móczár 1964b: 447 (tax., Sarepta); Nikol’skaya 1978: 71 (key, southern European part of USSR); Rosa et al. 2019: 202 (cat., distr.), 329 (Fig. 99).

Pseudochrysis (Spinolia) chalcites : Semenov-Tian-Shanskij 1912: 183 (descr., distr., Volgograd Prov.: Sarepta).

Euchroeus (Spinolia) chalcites: Linsenmaier 1951: 28 (key), 29 (key), 30 (descr., southern Russia), 99 (cat.); Linsenmaier 1959: 69 (descr., distr., key, southern Russia, mis.), 188 (cat.), 201 (Fig. 221).

Type locality. Russia: “ Russia meridionalis (Sarepta) (Coll. Schulthess-Rechbergi) ”.

Holotype, ♀: Sarepta // chalcites <handwritten in red> det. Mosc. [!] // 711 // Holotypus Chrysis chalcites Mocsáry 1890 // 27.I.1989 Berra vidit // Schulthess Rechberg Collection .

Remarks. Although Mocsáry (1890) clearly reported Schulthess-Rechberg’s collection as the type depository, there was uncertainty on the real type depository and identification of this species. In fact, in the catalogue of the Chrysididae of the world ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991) the given type depository is HMNH. The Mocsáry collection at HMNH was recently examined by the first author ( Rosa et al. 2017b) and the only specimen found under the name Chrysis chalcites is not a type, but a male specimen belonging to an unidentified species, bearing the locality label “ Asia min. Adalia ” ( Asia Minor, Adalia [= Antalya]). This specimen is bearing a handwritten label by Kimsey “ Not type: the type is ♀ from “ Russia meridionalis” (Sarepta) ”. The specimen housed at ETHZ is undoubtedly the holotype examined by Mocsáry (1890), as confirmed by the red handwritten identification label and by morphological comparison, which is matching the original description.

Linsenmaier (1959: pag. 5) examined the type deposited at ETHZ and drew its face in the plates (Fig. 221). Nevertheless, the identification key and the description (pag. 69) are based on another specimen still deposited in his collection, which belongs to another species of Spinolia placed between Spinolia rogenhoferi ( Mocsáry, 1889) and Spinolia dournovii ( Radoszkovsky, 1866) .

The type corresponds to the current interpretation of the species given by Rosa et al. (2019).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Chrysis chalcites, holotype ♀. A) Habitus, lateral view. B) Head, frontal view. C) Head, mesosoma and metasomal tergum I, dorsal view. D) Metasoma, dorso-lateral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.