Chrysis ignita (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-sen & Xu, Zai-fu, 2014, An annotated checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, ZooKeys 455, pp. 1-128 : 34

119. Chrysis ignita (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sphex ignita Linnaeus, 1758: 571. Lectotype ♀ design. by Richards (1935: 159), Europe (depository: LSL).

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) ignita : Mocsáry 1889: 487 (tax.), 488 (China boreali, tax., descr.); Uchida 1927: 151 (North China, cat.); Tsuneki 1947: 55 (China: Beijing, cat.); Tsuneki 1948a: 126 (China: Hengshuichen-Henglingkuan, Henglingshan-Peihungkaokao, cat.), 128 (Beijing distr., Manchuria, Shanxi, cat.); Tsuneki 1953a: 58 (Manchuria: Wenchüansze; Heilongjiang: Harbin, tax.).

Chrysis ignita : Dalla Torre 1892: 69 (China boreali, cat.); du Buysson 1898a: 535 ("Montagnes au nord de Pèking”, cat.); du Buysson 1899: 167 (China, cat.); du Buysson 1900: 148 (China: Beijing, cat.); Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 317 (fig. 103), 336 (fig. 110a), 348 (tax., ignita group), 420 (cat.); Kurzenko and Lelej 2007: 1005 (China, cat.).

Chrysis ignita var.: Hammer 1936: 3 (China: Inner Mongolia: Hurtjertu Gol, cat.).

Chrysis (Chrysis) ignita : Linsenmaier 1959: 151 (key), 152 (key), 155 (tax., ignita group), 205 (fig. 388), 217 (fig. 696).

Distribution.

China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi). Widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region ( Trautmann 1927; Linsenmaier 1959; Kimsey and Bohart 1991).

Remarks.

Some identification may be related to other species belonging to the ignita group. The species is traditionally subdivided in two forms, Chrysis ignita A and B after Linsenmaier (1959), now recognized as two different species: Chrysis terminata Dahlbom and Chrysis ignita (Linnaeus).