Hedychridium feritatum LINSENMAIER , 1959

Rosa, Paolo, 2020, New records of Chrysididae from Iran (Hymenoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1), pp. 461-474 : 462

Hedychridium feritatum LINSENMAIER, 1959 stat.nov. * ( Figs 1 , 3, 5)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Mazandaran province: 1♂, Elburs, Damavend-Gebiet, Polur, 2000 m, 22.vii.1977, leg. J. Gusenleitner / Hedychridium AB. aheneum DHLB. ♂ det. J. Schmidt 1978 / ex coll. J. Gusenleitner Eingang 1990.

I r a n i a n r e c o r d s: Fars (TORABIPOUR et al. 2013, under the name Hedychridium aheneum DAHLBOM).

R e m a r k s Hedychridium feritatum ( Fig. 5 ) was described by LINSENMAIER (1959) as a subspecies of Hedychridium aheneum DAHLBOM, 1854. Nevertheless it is a separate species and can be recognised by metasomal punctation coarse, with large foveate punctures (Fig. 3) and genital capsule with shorter volsella ( Fig. 1 ), whereas metasomal punctures in H. aheneum are smaller and evenly spaced (Fig. 4), and genital capsule has longer volsella ( Fig. 2 ).

EBRAHIMI (2015), TAVASOLI & FALLAHZADEH (2015), and STRUMIA et al. (2016b) reported Hedychridium aheneum (DAHLBOM, 1854) in Fars province. Very likely these specimens are Hedychridium feritatum too.

Figures

Figs 1-2. Genital capsula; (1) Hedychridium feritatum; (2) Hedychridium aheneum. Figs 3-4. Metasoma, dorsal view; (3) Hedychridium feritatum; (4) Hedychridium aheneum. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.

Figs 5-8. Habitus, dorsalv iew; (5) Hedychridium feritatum; (6) Holopyga kuthyana; (7) Chrysis batyamensis; (8) Chrysura ignifrons. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.