Hedychrum radoszkowskyi du Buysson, 1893

Rosa, Paolo, Wisniowski, Bogdan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Radoszkowski in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, ZooKeys 486, pp. 1-100 : 74-75

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Hedychrum radoszkowskyi du Buysson, 1893 Figure 11

Hedychrum radoszkowskyi du Buysson (in André) 1893: 213.

Type locality.

“Algérie (Radoszkowsky)".

Holotype

♂ [box 59]: Africa [printed] [light blue label] // plastic label with left fore wing glued on it // Hedychrum Radoszkowskyi Buyss. n. sp! [handwritten by Buysson].

Remarks.

The type is partially damaged: it lacks the right antenna and left flagellum. The type locality is different from the one given by du Buysson: Africa instead of Algeria. This information is particularly important, because the species has a typical sub-saharan aspect, and it does not belong to the Palaearctic fauna, as supposed by all the authors. Linsenmaier (1999: 45) in his last revision on the northern African species considered Hedychrum radoszkowskyi as belonging to the Egyptian fauna (sic!), known only from the type "Mir nicht in Natura bekannt".

Current status.

Hedychrum radoszkowskyi du Buysson, 1893.