Chrysis indigotea, Dufour & Perris, 1840

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Chrysis indigotea DUFOUR & PERRIS, 1840

Chrysis indigotea DUFOUR & PERRIS, 1840: 38. Syntypes; France (Lund, Paris).

Chrysis indica SCHRANK, 1802: KIMSEY & BOHART 1991: 422.

Chrysis indica : TARBINSKY 2000: 193 (key), 197 (cat., distr., Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzskiy crest, ur. Ala-Archa river).

R e m a r k s: identification by TARBINSKY (2000) to be confirmed.

In KIMSEY & BOHART (1991) and TARBINSKY (2000) under the name Chrysis indica SCHRANK, 1802. This name was not in use after 1899. In particular, before KIMSEY & BOHART (1991) it was listed only by two authors as a possible synonym of C. indigotea DUFOUR & PERRIS, 1840 ( MOCSÁRY 1889; BISCHOFF 1913). After DUFOUR & PERRIS (1840) the name currently in use for the identification of this species was C. indigotea , which is still the name in current use (ICZN 1999: Article 23.9). Moreover, the type of C. indica is lost and its description could be also related to other species of this group, e.g. a small specimen of C. iris CHRIST. For these reasons I consider Chrysis indigotea as the valid name, and C. indica as nomen dubium and species inquirenda.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Kyrgyzstan. West Palaearctic: central and southern Europe, northern Africa, Asia Minor ( LINSENMAIER 1959).