Chrysis schioedtei Dahlbom, 1854

(Figs 58 A–58E)

Chrysis Schi ӧdtei Dahlbom, 1854: 309. Holotype ♀; India: Tamil Nadu: Tranquebaria (ZMUC) (examined). Dalla Torre 1892: 92 (cat., India); du Buysson 1896b: 477 (key), 478 (cat., Assam: Margherita; Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]; Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry).

Chrysis (Hexachrysis) Schi ӧdtei: Mocsáry 1889: 544–545 (descr., India Orientalis, Pondicherry); Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., Assam).

Chrysis schioedtei: Bingham 1903: 440 (key), 489–490 (descr., Gujarat: Punjab; Central Provinces; Maharashtra: western India, Poona [= Pune], Gujarat: Deesa); du Buysson 1904: 273 (cat., Sikkim).

Chrysis schiodti (!): Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (widely distributed in India).

Chrysis schiodtei (!): Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 459 (cat., India, smaragdula group).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Kerala, Walayar forest, Malabar, without further data (NHMW) ; 2 ♀, Meghalaya, Khasia Hills, wihtout further data (ETHZ) ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, without further data (NHMW) ; 5 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data (NHMW) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram, I.1952, leg. Nathan (MNLU) ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, idem, IX.1951, leg. Nathan (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Settipatti, 13.vii.1975, leg. W. Perraudin (MNLU) ; 1 ♀, idem, 21.vii.1975 (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry [= Puducherry], Karaikal, iv.2002, leg. T. Nathan (PRC); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, viii.1975, leg. Nathan (PRC) .

Distribution. India (Assam; Chhattisgarh; Gujarat; Kerala; Maharashtra; Meghalaya; Odisha; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; India Orientalis (locality not specified); Central Provinces (locality not specified); Western India (locality not specified)). Oriental and Australian (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks. Bohart (in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 460) designated the lectotype based on the holotype specimen. Dahlbom (1854) described Chrysis schioedtei on a single holotype specimen “ Specimen unicum in Tranquebaria lectum communicavit D. Westermann ”.