Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806

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 : 17

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806

Chrysis elegans : Lepeletier 1806: 128.

Type locality.

unknown.

Material.

Holotype (?) ♀. Chrysis elegans , Lepell. et Dlbm. var. a, ♀. - β. id. var. ab / Dlbm. - Chrysis sicula , mihi olim / D. Grohmann. Sicilia.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis elegans , 164, 204, 34, 2 (box 50).

Remarks.

Two specimens are found under the label Chrysis elegans in the Spinola collection. One bears a single label (β) and likely refers to Chrysis sicula Dahlbom (see under the name sicula ). The second specimen could be the holotype of Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806. The type of Chrysis elegans is not housed in MNHN ( du Buysson 1898). Because the second specimen above matches the sex ( femelle ) and the colour drawing (pl. 6: fig. 20) given by Lepeletier 1806 it could be the holotype that arrived in the Spinola collection together with other types (e.g. Chrysis comparata ).

Bohart (in Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 407) designated the lectotype of Chrysis elegans Lepeletier in MNHN. This designation has to be set aside because it is based on a male (and not female as given in the description), and it was collected in Greece (the typical locality was unknown: "Je ne sais de quel pays elle est."). Hence it cannot be a syntype (or a holotype, to be more accurate). The specimen selected by Bohart is not a syntype and it cannot be considered as a lectotype according to Art. 74.2. It belongs to the Chrysis elegans group.

Current status.

Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806.