Chrysis versicolor Spinola, 1808

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 : 37

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis versicolor Spinola, 1808 Plate 36

Chrysis versicolor : Spinola 1808: 241.

Type locality.

"Habitat passim in Liguria, haud infrequens".

Material.

Lectotype (here designated) ♀. Chrysis versicolor , Spin. Ins. Lig. Typus. β var e Coll. Latr. Genes [Genoa].

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis versicolor , 1, 110, 0, 2 (box 51).

Remarks.

Only two specimens are found unter the name Chrysis versicolor in the Spinola collection. One is not a syntype, since it bears a rounded label (6295) and was acquired with other specimens of the Latreille collection. The second specimen is labelled "Type", and it was collected at Genoa, as written on the main label. Spinola’s description is surely based on a syntype series ("haud infrequens"), therefore we here designate as lectotype the last syntype left in the collection, even though the specimen is badly damaged. It lacks the metasoma, the right flagellum and almost all of the left flagellum; only the right mesoleg is complete. However, many diagnostic characteristics are still visible and even the sex is identifiable.

Current status.

Spintharina versicolor (Spinola, 1808) (transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 558).