Chrysis comparata Lepeletier, 1806

Boustani, Mira & Rosa, Paolo, 2022, Survey of cuckoo wasps of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 5104 (1), pp. 1-39 : 13

Chrysis comparata Lepeletier, 1806

Chrysis comparata Lepeletier, 1806: 127 . Neotype ♂ designated by Rosa & Xu 2015: 13 ; Italy (MRSN) ( comparata group). Chrysis (Chrysis) comparata: Linsenmaier 1968: 95 ( Lebanon, without locality).

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Bcharre , 1670 m, 27.vi.1960, 3♂, leg. G.A. Mavromoustakis, det. W. Linsenmaier 1959 ( NMLU) ; Kadisha Grotto , 1670 m, 21.vi.1960, 2♀, leg. G.A. Mavromoustakis, det. W. Linsenmaier 1959 ( NMLU) ; Arz Bcharre , 1897 m, 20.viii.2019, 1♀, leg. M. Boustani, det. P. Rosa ( MBOU) ; Horch Ehden Nature Reserve , 1686 m, 14.viii.2019, 1♂, leg. X. Van achter, det. P. Rosa ( XVA) ; Tannourine Al Tahta , Saint Peter Church, 1155 m, 27.vi.2019, 1♂, leg. X. Van achter, det. P. Rosa ( XVA) .

Distribution. Lebanon. West Palaearctic from Europe and North Africa to the Caucasus. All the specimens in Linsenmaier’s collection were identified as Chrysis comparata orientica Linsenmaier, 1959 (replacement name for C. chevrieri orientalis Mocsáry, 1889 ), known for Caucasus and Anatolia. It is the eastern form with the male almost or fully green coloured.

Remarks. Found in several wooded areas comprising Quercus sp. and Cedrus libani .