Chrysis viridissima Klug, 1845

Rosa, Paolo, Gadallah, Neveen S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Chrysidoidea, Chrysididae, Zootaxa 4754 (1), pp. 101-121 : 114

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.10

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3720200

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Chrysis viridissima Klug, 1845
status

 

Chrysis viridissima Klug, 1845

(= Chrysis viridissima fasciolata Klug, 1845 , = Chrysis decolorata Strumia & Dawah, 2019 syn. nov.)

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia ( Strumia & Dawah 2010, 2019), United Arab Emirates ( Linsenmaier 1994; Howarth & Gillett 2008 as Chrysis viridissima fasciolata ).

Extralimital distribution: North Africa ( Linsenmaier 1968), Afrotropical Region ( Madl & Rosa 2012).

Remarks: Chrysis decolorata Strumia & Dawah, 2019 was described from a single aberrant specimen, without mention of relevant diagnostic characters, instead being based merely on its unusual coloration. This is likely a case of rufinism or post-mortem alteration, as in the case of Trichrysis fulvicornis Strumia & Dawah, 2019 (see under Trichrysis longispina Mocsáry, 1912 below). Both specimens were collected in the same Malaise trap on the same day and their altered colour may be the result of a climatic event or storage conditions. The earlier synonymy of Chrysis fasciolata Klug, 1845 by Madl & Rosa (2012) with Chrysis viridissima is also confirmed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Chrysididae

Genus

Chrysis

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