Chrysis dichroa Dahlbom, 1854

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 : 12-13

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis dichroa Dahlbom, 1854 Plate 9

Chrysis dichroa : Dahlbom 1854: 146.

Type locality.

"Habitat in Austria D. D. Klug, Kollar, Parreys et Spinola; in Italia ad Buda, D. Zeller; in Asia minori ad Ephesum mense Aprili 1842, D. Loew".

Material.

Lectotype (here designated) ♀. Chrysis dichroa , Klug / D. Parreyss, Dalmatia // Buda.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis dichroa 132, 81, 68, 3 (box 50).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854) described Chrysis dichroa based on a syntypic series of specimens collected in Austria, Hungary (Buda, not Italy) and Turkey (Ephesus) lent by Klug, Kollár, Parreys, Spinola, Zeller, and Loew. The female syntype housed in the Spinola collection matches the current interpretation of the species and we designate it as a lectotype. The designation is necessary because during the last five decades, Linsenmaier (1959, 1968) and Arens (2001) described numerous species of the Chrysis dichroa group collected in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Therefore, there is the possibility that syntypes of Chrysis dichroa from Turkey could now belong to a different species. It belongs to the Chrysis dichroa group.

Current status.

Chrysura dichroa (Dahlbom, 1854) (transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 488).