Hedychrum flavipes Eversmann, 1857

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 : 73

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Hedychrum flavipes Eversmann, 1857 Figure 9

Hedychrum flavipes Eversmann 1857: 552.

Type locality.

"Hab. in campis orientalibus et in promontoriis Uralensibus".

Syntype

1♀ [box 59]: golden rounded label // Hedychrum n. sp. flavipes Evm. [handwritten by Eversmann] // [handwriting not readable] // 79 [printed].

Remarks.

The type was originally pinned and later glued on a plastic label with extended ovipositor. The type is partially damaged: the left antenna is broken, glued on the label, and it lacks the tarsus of left mid-leg, as well as two terminal tarsal segments of the right mid-leg.

Semenov-Tian-Shanskij (1954) described the genus Colpopyga based on Hedychrum flavipes Eversmann. This species has the metasomal external segments morphologically modified. Noskiewicz and Lorencowa (1963) demonstrated that also the internal segments have a deep modified shape. Future molecular analysis may clarify the systematic position of this taxon.

Current status.

Hedychridium flavipes (Eversmann, 1857) (transferred by du Buysson (in André) 1891: 182).