Chrysis modica 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 : 23

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Chrysis modica Dahlbom, 1854

Chrysis modica : Dahlbom 1854: 326 [nec 1850: 140].

Type locality.

"Habitat in Africa; 3 specimina vidimus; unum in Guinea lectum, a D. Westermann nobis olim donatum; alterum e promontorio bonae spei a D. Spinola ut variet. Chrysidis malachiticae communicatura; tertium e Port Natal a D. J. Wahlberg reportatum, Mus. R. Acad. Scient. Stockholm".

Material.

Paralectotype 1 ♀. Chrysis modica , Dlbm. D. Dreage, Pr. B. Esp.

Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Chrysis modica , 27, 53, 21, 1 (box 51).

Remarks.

Dahlbom (1854) described Chrysis modica based on three specimens collected in Guinea (ZMUC), Cape of Good Hope ( Spinola’s collection) and Port Natal (NHRS). Bohart (in Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 437) selected the latter as lectotype. It belongs to the Chrysis smaragdula group.

Current status.

Chrysis mediocris Dahlbom, 1845 (synonymised by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 437).