Chrysis viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1968

Rosa, Paolo & Greeff, Michael, 2021, Types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Zootaxa 4908 (2), pp. 181-204 : 191

Chrysis viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1968

Chrysis (Chrysis) viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1968: 63 , nec Giebel, 1862. Holotype ♀; Egypt: Cairo (succincta group) (NMLU). Linsenmaier 1999: 150 (key), 155 (descr., distr.).

Chrysis viridicyanea: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 477 (cat., succincta s.s. group).

Chrysis robertsi Rosa nom. nov. pro Chrysis viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1959 , nec Giebel, 1862.

Type locality. Egypt, Saudi Arabia: “ Ägypten, Saudi-Arabien, ♀ Type von Kairo, X.57, leg. Pulawski, ♁ Allotype von Saudi-Arabien, El Riyadh, leg. Diehl, in Coll. m., Paratypen in Coll. Nadig und m. ”.

Paratypes, 1♀: Kairo III-V.35 Mochi (Nadig) // ♀ Type <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins. Linsenmaier det. 62 // Holotypus <red label>; 1♂: Kairo III-V.35 Mochi ( Nadig ) // ♂ Allotype <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins. Linsenmaier det. 62 // Allotypus <red label>; 1♂: Kairo III-V.35 Mochi ( Nadig ) // ♂ Paratype <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins. Linsenmaier det. 62 // Paratypus <red label>; 1♂: Coll. A. Mochi 30.V.33 Ezbeth el Nakhl Egitto // Chr. friesei d. Alfieri // 4 Ch. [Tetrachrysis] grohmanni cyanea ♂ Trtm. det. Ad. Nadig // Paratype <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins . Linsenmaier det. 62 // Paratypus <red label>; 1♀: Coll. A. Mochi 4.VI.33 Ezbeth el Nakhl Egitto // friesei det. Alfieri // 4 Ch. [Tetrachrysis] grohmanni cyanea ♀ Trtm. det. Ad. Nadig // Paratype <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins . Linsenmaier det. 62 // Paratypus <red label>; 1♀: Coll. A. Mochi 4.VI.33 Marg Egitto // Chr. quadrispina Buyss. d. Alfieri // 4 Ch. [Tetrachrysis] grohmanni cyanea ♀ Trtm. det. Ad. Nadig // Paratype <handwritten in red> Chrysis L. grohmanni viridicyanea Lins. Linsenmaier det. 62 // Paratype <handwritten in red>.

Remarks. Linsenmaier in 1962 labelled 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ from Nadig’s collection as holotype and allotype of Chrysis grohmanni viridicyanea . Linsenmaier (1968) later described this taxon as Chrysis viridicyanea and selected as holotype and allotype two specimens from his collection, collected by Pulawski and Diehl, respectively. In the same description, he designated the specimens in Nadig’s collection as paratypes. Only three specimens were labelled as types by Linsenmaier in 1962, whereas three other specimens in the collection are labelled by someone else as paratypes, yet without the handwritten identification labels by Linsenmaier. We consider the latter specimens to be possible paratypes. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) reported the depository of the holotype erroneoulsy at ETHZ instead of NMLU.

Chrysis viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1968 is a junior homonym of Chrysis viridicyanea Giebel, 1862 . Both taxa were listed in Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 477) as valid species names, without further information. Chrysis viridicyanea Giebel is a fossil species in African copal, originated from Tanzania, Holocene. We propose the new name Chrysis robertsi Rosa nom. nov. pro Chrysis viridicyanea Linsenmaier, 1959 , nec Giebel, 1862. The specific epithet robertsi is dedicated to Huw Roberts ( U.A.E.) for his precious help in the study of cuckoo wasps from the United Arab Emirates.