Chrysis distinguenda Spinola, 1838

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 : 52

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis distinguenda Spinola, 1838

Chrysis distinguenda : Spinola 1838: 450.

Remarks.

The type is not present in the Spinola collection. Dahlbom (1854: 282) examined the type in the Spinola collection, when it was still there, and wrote that it is entirely blue-green: "quae species est toto corpore cyaneo-viridis". In Egypt, only few species are known with four anal teeth and blue-green colouration. One of them is Chrysis blanchardi Lucas, 1849, described from Algeria, distributed from the Iberian Peninsula via North Africa to Palestine. It could match Spinola’s description. Linsenmaier overlooked this name until his last work ( 1999: 211), in which he placed Chrysis distinguenda in the Chrysis ignita group. However, Chrysis distinguenda could be a small blue species as found in various species groups (e.g., Chrysis cerastes , Chrysis ignita , Chrysis scutellaris - viridissima , Chrysis pallidicornis ). Therefore, we consider Chrysis distinguenda as nomen dubium.

Current status.

Chrysis distinguenda Spinola, 1838, nomen dubium.