Chrysura hirsuta ( Gerstaecker, 1869 )

Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 3864 (1), pp. 1-67 : 48-49

70. Chrysura hirsuta ( Gerstaecker, 1869)

Chrysis hirsuta Gerstaecker 1869: 185 . Holotype ♀; Austria: Ober-Kärnthen [= Oberkärnten] (ZMB) (examined). Hellén 1920: 210, Trautmann 1927: 111, Trautmann 1930: 501, Jansson 1934: 287, Hellén 1935: 8, Berland & Bernard 1938: 84, Benno 1950: 45, Haupt 1957: 77, Valkeila 1962: 64, Wengris 1962: 9, Erlandsson 1971: 88.

Chrysis bicolor Dahlbom 1829: 10 , nom. praeocc., nec Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1806. Syntypes ♂ ♀; Sweden and Finland (ZMUL) (examined) [part.]. Dahlbom 1831: 30 [part.], Zetterstedt 1840: 434 [part.], Dahlbom 1854: 124 [part.], Woldstedt 1875: 345, Siebke 1880: 75, Strand 1898: 97.

Chrysis Osmiae Thomson 1870: 106 . Holotype ♂; Sweden (ZMUL) (examined). Mocsáry 1889: 258, Buysson 1894: 328, Sahlberg 1910: 97.

Chrysis osmiae: Westerlund 1893: 30 , Strand 1903: 7, Aurivillius 1911: 11, Lundblad 1924: 25.

Chrysis hirsuta ab. freyi Hellén 1920: 210, invalid name.

Holochrysis hirsuta: Jansson 1922: 34 .

Chrysura hirsuta: Vikberg 1986b: 68 , Hedström 1987: 156, Hedström 1989: 154, Nilsson 1991: 82, Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 490, Hellqvist 1994: 33, Bergsten et al. 2003: 71, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 45, Abenius 2004 b: 40, Soon 2004: 24, 46, Nilsson 2005: 110, Hellqvist 2006: 37, Abenius & Hellqvist 2007: 66, Valtonen 2007: 20, Karlsson 2008, Sörensson 2008a: 80, Johansson 2009, Artsdatabanken 2010, Johansson 2010: 118, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 152, Johansson 2011: 35, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Hallin 2012, Humala & Polevoi 2012: 142, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.

Chrysis pustulosa [nec Abeille de Perrin, 1878]: Polevoi et al. 2005: 111.

Distribution. Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia.—Transpalearctic: from West Europe to China, Korea and Japan ( Linsenmaier 1959).

Remarks. The species has been reported from all countries of the studied area, except Denmark. However, the record from Latvia (Rosa & Soon 2004) is doubtful. The record of “ Chrysis regia ” (= Hedychrum nobile ) from Kurland (= Courland = western Latvia) by Kawall (1855: 261) might actually concern this species, because Osmia nigriventris was observed as its host. The mason bee O. nigriventris is one of the main hosts of C. hirsuta in the Nordic and Baltic countries (see e.g. Trautmann 1927), and it is not known as a host of Hedychrum . No specimens of C. hirsuta have been found in LMSZ in Riga.

In the Nordic literature, C. hirsuta was separated from C. radians only in the 1870s, and therefore older records of C. radians (= C. bicolor ) can represent either species. As the distribution of C. radians is restricted in Fennoscandia to southern Sweden and Norway, old records of C. radians (= C. bicolor ) from Finland ( Dahlbom 1829, Woldstedt 1875), Russian Fennoscandia ( Woldstedt 1875), Swedish (?) Lapland ( Dahlbom 1854) and Levangerfjord in Norway ( Dahlbom 1854), most likely represent C. hirsuta . Siebke (1880) and Strand (1898) reported C. bicolor from Norway probably based on Dahlbom’s record from Levangerfjord, so these records should also refer to C. hirsuta .