Hedychrum simile Mocsary , 1889

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55. Hedychrum simile Mocsary, 1889 Plate 15

Hedychrum cyaneum Mocsáry (in Radoszkowski), 1889: 10 nec Brullé, 1846. Lectotype ♀ design. by French (in Bohart and French 1986: 341), China “Ta-schian-sy” (HNHM)*.

Hedychrum simile Mocsáry, 1889: 157. Replacement name for Hedychrum cyaneum Radoszkowski, 1889 nec Brullé, 1846.

Hedychrum simile : Dalla Torre, 1892: 35 (China, cat.); Mocsáry 1890a: 61 (China borealis, cat.); Tsuneki 1946: 37 (Manchuria, tax.); Tsuneki 1947: 51 (China: Inner Mongolia: Apaka; North China: Tientsing [= Tianjin], tax., distr.); Tsuneki 1953b: 23 (North China, Manchuria, tax.); Linsenmaier 1959: 36 (key), 37 (key), 39 (Manchuria, tax., descr.), 198 (figs 79, 80); Bohart and French 1986: 341 (lectotype designation by French, China ( “borealis”): Ta-schian-sy); Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 220 (China, Manchuria, cat.); Kurzenko and Lelej 2007: 1003 (Northeast China, tax.); Terayama et al. 2010: 6 (figs.), 10 (China, cat.), 12 (tab., biol.).

Hedychrum simili (!): Uchida 1927: 151 (North China, cat.).

Hedychrum simile f. pullatum Tsuneki, 1953b: 23. Syntype ♂♀, Korea, Shôyôzan (23 (descr.), depository: NIAS).

Hedychrum simile ssp. aereum Tsuneki, 1970a: 34. Holotype ♀, Japan, Chiba (34 (descr.), depository: NIAS).

Distribution.

Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin. Widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region from Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and Russian Far East ( Tsuneki 1953b; Linsenmaier 1959; Kimsey and Bohart 1991; Kurzenko and Lelej 2007).

Host.

Cerceris arenaria (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Hymenoptera , Crabronidae ) ( Tsuneki 1979).

Remarks.

Mocsáry examined at least two specimens of both sexes (see the simbols male and female in the first couplet). However, in the original description Mocsáry (in Radoszkowski) gave the description of Hedychrum simile (sub cyaneum Mocsáry nec Brullé) based only on the male housed in the Radoszkowski collection and dissected by the Russian entomologist, who drew the genitalia. The type locality given by Radoszkowski is "Siberia orientalis", and it has to be referred only to the male housed in the Radoszkowski collection. In the MNHM, we examined the rest of the type series listed by Mocsáry (1889): a female specimen collected in China (Ta-schian-sy). French (1986) designated this female as lectotype. However, this female belongs to a different species compared with the male collected in Siberia. The female lectotype is characterised by the very long pronotum (similar to Hedychrum longicolle ) and sharp and pointing out propodeal angles, while the male has a short pronotum and wide and triangular propodeal angles. A revision of the blue Asian species of Hedychrum is missing and urgently needed.