Chrysis obsoleta Dahlbom, 1845

Rosa, Paolo & Vardal, Hege, 2015, An annotated catalogue of the types of Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, with brief historical notes, ZooKeys 495, pp. 79-132 : 95-97

Chrysis obsoleta Dahlbom, 1845 Plate 14

Chrysis obsoleta : Dahlbom 1845: 8.

Type locality.

unknown.

Holotype ♂.

[Mus. Payk.] [ Chrysis ignita var. obsoleta Dahlb. Dispos. 1845] [NHRS-HEVA000000856].

Remarks.

The specimen is badly conserved. The metasoma was broken and glued using large quantity of glue, which now includes also part of the legs. All the European authors and Kimsey and Bohart (1991: 420) considered this small and slender specimen as synonym of Chrysis ignita (Linnaeus). The specimen clearly belongs to another species, probably Chrysis angustula Schenck, 1856. Villu Soon (pers. comm.) confirmed that it possibly belongs to Chrysis angustula but perhaps even Chrysis solida Haupt, 1956. Since the name Chrysis obsoleta Dahlbom has the priority on almost all the other names in the ignita group, we suggest considering it as a nomen oblitum, to maintain the prevailing usage of the names within this complicated species-group (Art. 23.9 of the Code).

Current status.

Chrysis ignita (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonymised by Mocsáry 1889: 488).