Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b

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Hedychridium wroughtoni du Buysson, 1896b: 466 . Holotype ♀; India: Central Provinces (Inde Anglaise) (466 (descr.), pl. II (figs 5, 6), pl. V (fig. 4)) (MNHN). Bingham 1908: 347 (cat., Oudh: Lucknow, Central India); Kimsey 1986: 108 (invalid lectotype designation); Jonathan et al. 1977: 85 (India: Gujarat); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 207 (cat. India: Central Prov.); Strumia 1999: 49 (key), 53 (figs 11–14), 71 (descr., India: Nilgiri Hills; Coimbatore).

Hedychrum wroughtoni Bingham, 1903: 425 (cat., India: Central provinces of India, species unknown to Bingham), 424 (key), 425 (descr.).

Material examined. 2 ♂, 3 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Nadawaram, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♂, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, 29.ix.1953, leg. Nathan (MNLU) ; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pulney Hills [= Palni Hills], Kodaikanal, 6500 ft, v.19, leg. Nathan (MNLU) .

Distribution. India (Central Provinces (locality not specified), Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat). Nepal (Bingham 1908), Myanmar, Sri Lanka (Strumia 1999).

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) proposed the name Hedychridium attenuatum group, for those species sharing general habitus similar to Hedychrum; a pit on the hind tibia; mandible without subsidiary tooth; elongate clypeus; elongate pronotum and metanotum; mesopleuron ventrally rounded; forewing radial sector (Second radial cross & Radial sector) longer than stigma. Linsenmaier (1968) and Rosa & Agnoli (2019) named this species group Hedychridium planifrons group. It was named Hedychridium wroughtoni group by Strumia (1999) after synonymisation of H. attenuatum Mocsáry, 1914 with H. wroughtoni . The group includes the following species: Hedychridium wroughtoni; H. aegyptiacum du Buysson, 1898a; H. planifrons du Buysson, 1900; H. iocosum Linsenmaier, 1959; H. laetificum Linsenmaier, 1959; and probably H. tarbinskyi Rosa & Agnoli, 2019, and H. nevadae Kimsey in Bohart & Kimsey, 1978 (not examined).

Genus Hedychrum Latreille, 1802

Hedychrum Latreille, 1802: 317 . Type species: Chrysis lucidula Fabricius, 1775 (= Sphex nobilis Scopoli, 1763). Monotypic.