Chrysis sicula Dahlbom, 1854

Rosa, Paolo & Xu, Zai-fu, 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Maximilian Spinola (1780 - 1857), Turin, ZooKeys 471, pp. 1-96 : 30

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis sicula Dahlbom, 1854

Chrysis sicula : Dahlbom 1854: 158 (given as var. ab and var. f).

Type locality.

Sicily.

Material.

Holotype (?) ♀. Chrysis elegans , Lepell. et Dlbm. var. a, ♀ - β. id. var. ab. Dlbm. - Chrysis sicula , mihi olim D. Grohmann. Sicilia.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis elegans , 164, 204, 34, 2 (box 50).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854) refered to three specimens housed in the Spinola collection named Chrysis sicula . The male specimen is no longer present in the collection, and it was not listed by Spinola himself, who listed only two female specimens: Chrysis elegans var. a and "β" var. ab. However, there is no perfect match between Dahlbom (1854) descriptions and Spinola’s label, since the form "β" referred to a male (described with green mesosoma), whereas in the Spinola collection the label "β" refers to a female. We interpret Chrysis sicula as a new synonym of Chrysis elegans Lepeletier, 1806. It belongs to the Chrysis elegans group.

Current status.

Chrysis elegans Lepeletier Lepeletier, 1806.