Chrysis parallela Brullé, 1846

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 53

Chrysis parallela Brullé, 1846

Chrysis parallela Brullé, 1846: 29 . Holotype ♀ [not ♂]; Indonesia: Timor Isl. (MNHN) (examined). Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 447 (cat., India, smaragdula group).

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) lepcha Cameron, 1902a: 206 . Holotype ♀, India: Khasia [= Meghalaya, Khasia Hills?] (NMNH) (syn- onymised by Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 447).

Distribution. India (Meghalaya: Khasia).

Remarks. According to Kimsey & Bohart (1991) Chrysis parallela is widespread in Indo-Malaysian region, from India to Taiwan and Indonesia, nevertheless this distribution includes records of Ch. assamensis (here synonymised with Ch. rani Mocsáry, 1913 ) and Ch. lepcha (type not examined). Any Indian specimen of Ch. parallela was examined and the occurrence of Chrysis parallela in India should be better evaluated. In fact, all Indian specimens identified as Ch. parallela from several collections (e.g. at HMNH and MNLU), belong to different species, and the synonymy of Ch. lepcha should be confirmed.