Istiochrysis ziliolii Rosa, Feng & Xu, 2016

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 : 71-73

Istiochrysis ziliolii Rosa, Feng & Xu , in Rosa et al. 2016c

( Figs 71 A–71E)

Istiochrysis ziliolii Rosa, Feng & Xu in Rosa et al., 2016c: 596 . Holotype ♂; China: Yunnan: Tengchong, Qushi (SCAU) (ex- amined).

Material examined. 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Uttarakhand , 30km NW Bageshwar, 2400m, 25.–30.vi.2003, leg. Kejval & Tryzna ( PRC, MHC) .

Distribution. * India (Uttarakhand); China (Yunnan) ( Rosa et al. 2016c). The type locality in China is closely located to the bordering area between the Chinese Palaearctic and Oriental regions, which is actually not a line with a clear circumscription, but a transitional belt based on the distribution data several insectes and vertebrates ( Chen et al. 2008).

Genus Odontochrydium Brauns, 1928

Odontochrydium Brauns, 1928: 389 .

Type species: Odontochrydium trautmanni Brauns, 1928 [= Odontochrydium irregulare ( Mocsáry, 1914) ]. Monotypic.

Figures

FIGURE 71. Istiochrysis ziliolii Rosa et al. 2016c, female from Uttarakhand. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Metasoma, postero-lateral view. E. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.