Chrysis cotesi du Buysson, 1893

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 36

Chrysis cotesi du Buysson, 1893 , sp. resurr.

( Figs 29 A–29F, 30A–30E)

Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) cotesi du Buysson, 1893: 249 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Bohart in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 447; India: Karnataka: Bangalore [= Bengaluru] (MNHN) (examined).

Chrysis cotesi: du Buysson 1896b: 472 (key, descr., quadridentatae group, Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]; Karnataka: Kanara; South Guzerat [= Gujarat], Central provinces, Bangalore, Mysore); Bischoff 1913: 50 (cat., India); du Buysson 1898a: 134 (cat., North Konkan, Matheron); du Buysson 1898b: 529 (cat., Bengal), 552 (cat., Pondicherry); Bingham 1903: 438 (key), 470–471 (descr., Gujarat: Deesa, Central Provinces and Western India, Karnataka: Bangalore [= Bengaluru], Mysore, probably throughout continental India); Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (widely distributed species in India).

Chrysis palliditarsis Spinola, 1838 : Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 447 (cat., syn., Bangalore, comparata-scutellaris group).

Material examined. 1 ♂, Lectotype, Museum Paris Inde, Bangalore, Coll. R. du Buysson 1900, ♂ ( MNHN); 1 ♀, South India, Karikal, without further data ( NHMW).

Distribution. India (Gujarat; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Bengal and Central provinces (locality not specified)).

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) synonymised Chrysis cotesi du Buysson, 1893 with Ch. palliditarsis Spinola, 1838 . Nevertheless, this rather common Indian species does not belong to the scutellaris group, but to the similar viridissima group. We agree with all other authors who treated Chrysis cotesi as a distinct species and revalidate it here. Chrysis cotesi can be easily separated from Ch. palliditarsis by transverse frontal carina vanishing (vs. sharp and M-shaped), face longitudinally elongate (vs. transverse), male with darker brown tarsi (vs. yellowish to whitish in C. palliditarsis ), pronotum medially elongate (vs. unmodified), mesoscutal punctation shallow, with large, polished interspaces (vs. punctation coarse, without interspaces), mesoscutellum distinctly elongate (vs. unmodified), postero-lateral mesoscutal corner dentate before tegula (vs. unmodified), metasomal punctation shallow and with large, polished interspaces (vs. largely and densely punctate).

Figures

FIGURE 29. Chrysis cotesi du Buysson, 1893, lectotype, male. A. Mesosoma, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Mesosoma, lateral view. D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, posterior view. F. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.