Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891

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 : 43

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891a: 195.

Type locality.

“Saraks”.

Holotype

♂ [box 61]: golden rounded label // Tr-Cap Saraks [printed] [yellow label with metasoma glued to it] // Saraksensis [handwritten by Radoszkowski].

Remarks.

The type is in bad condition: it lacks the left flagellum, both fore wings, as well as mid- and hind-legs. The metasoma was found on the bottom of the box and glued on the locality label.

Radoszkowski emended the name Chrysis saraksensis to Chrysis seraxensis ( Radoszkowski 1893b: 81), without any comment. The name Chrysis seraxensis was later used by du Buysson ((in Andrè) 1896: 728), Bischoff (1913: 59) and Semenov-Tian-Shanskij and Nikol’skaya (1954: 128). The emendation is unjustified according to the Art. 32.5.1 of the Code: incorrect transliteration or latinization, or use of an inappropriate connecting vowel, are not to be considered inadvertent errors. The name Chrysis saraksensis is the incorrect transliteration of a locality name written in Arabic. Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 428) placed Chrysis saraksensis in synonymy with Chrysis kokandica Radoszkowski in the Chrysis splendidula group. Linsenmaier (1994: 197) revalidated Chrysis sarakensis and placed it in the Chrysis cerastes group. Chrysis saraxensis belongs to the Chrysis cerastes group and cannot be a synonym of Chrysis kokandica Radoszkowski because it belongs to the Chrysis splendidula group.

Current status.

Chrysis saraksensis Radoszkowski, 1891.