Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM 1854

Madl, M. & Rosa, P., 2012, A Catalogue of the Chrysididae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion, Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1), pp. 5-169 : 16

Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM 1854

Chrysis alternans KLUG n.sp.: DAHLBOM 1854: 197 (tab. genus Chrysis 4: key), 236 (descr.

partim partim, South Africa). Chrysis alternans KLUG (!): COSTA 1864: 68 ( South Africa). Chrysis alternans KLUG (!): MAGRETTI 1885: 285 ( Sudan), 352 (cat.). Chrysis alternans KLUG (!): CASOLARI & CASOLARI MORENO 1980: 79 ( South Africa, cat.). Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM : KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 333 (tax.), 334 (tax.), 327 (fig. 106q), 329

(fig. 107c), 331 (fig. 108e), 350 (fig. 112h), 381 (tax., lectotype design. by Bohart, South

Africa, cat. partim, alternans group). Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM : GESS 1996: 287 (app. 2: biol., South Africa). Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM : GESS & GESS 2003: 6 (biol., South Africa). * Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) striata n.sp.: MOCSÁRY 1890: 59 (descr., South Africa). Chrysis striata MOCSÁRY : de DALLA TORRE 1892: 98 (cat.). Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) striata MOCSÁRY : BISCHOFF 1913: 60 (cat.). Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) perengueyi (!) striata MOCSÁRY : EDNEY 1954a: 546 (key), 559 (tax., descr.,

South Africa), 618 (fig. 1i). Chrysis striata MOCSÁRY : KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 381 (syn.).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: South Africa, Sudan.

Known from the Palaearctic Region. DAHLBOM (1854) has described three variations (a, b, c) of Chrysis alternans DAHLBOM , which actually belong to three different species. The type designation by Bohart (KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 381) refers to variation a.