Chrysis ramburi Dahlbom, 1854

Rosa, Paolo & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Maximilian Spinola (1780 - 1857), Turin, ZooKeys 471, pp. 1-96 : 27-28

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis ramburi Dahlbom, 1854 Plate 27

Chrysis ramburi : Dahlbom 1854: 249.

Type locality.

"Habitat in Europa meridionali rarius; marem unicum in Hispania a D. Rambur detectum et feminam unicam in Lombardia a D. Christophori lectam communicavit D. Spinola".

Material.

Lectotype (here designated) ♂. Chrysis Ramburi , Spin. n. sp.?. D. Rambur, Espagne, Sierra Nevada.

Paralectotype ♀. Chrysis Ramburi , Spin. n. sp.?. D. Rambur, Espagne, Sierra Nevada.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis ramburi , 1, 101, 74, 2 (box 51).

Remarks.

The type series includes two specimens: one male from Spain and one female from Lombardy (Italy). Both syntypes are housed in the Spinola collection. They match the original description, but they belong to two different species. The male belongs to Chrysis ramburi Dahlbom, whereas the female to Chrysis chrysostigma Mocsáry, 1889. Dahlbom (1854) described them as male and female of the same species based on the colour of the last visible tergite. The differences given in the text between the two taxa were supposed to be sexual dimorphic characteristics.

Chrysis ramburi in Europe is present only on the Iberian Peninsula and occasionally in south France, whereas it is more frequent in North Africa, particularly in Morocco. Chrysis chrysostigma , on the other hand, is widely distributed in southern Europe from France to the Czech Republic, and it is quite common in Italy. The two species were already considered separate taxa by various authors (e.g. Linsenmaier 1987: 151; Tyrner 2007: 48). Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 455) placed Chrysis chrysostigma in synonymy of Chrysis ramburi . Móczár (1965: 172) designated a lectotype of Chrysis chrysostigma at HNHM. We therefore designate a lectotype of Chrysis ramburi Dahlbom to fix the current interpretation of the species and to avoid future misidentifications based on the fact that Dahlbom described two different species under one and the same name. The selected lectotype is based on the male specimen with a thin layer of mould. It belongs to the Chrysis comparata - scutellaris group.

Current status.

Chrysis ramburi Dahlbom, 1854.