Chrysis rani Mocsáry, 1913

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 : 59

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Chrysis (Hexachrysis) Ráni Mocsáry, 1913: 23 . Holotype ♀; India orientalis: Sikkim (HNHM) (examined). Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., Sikkim). Chrysis rani: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 455 (cat., North India, smaragdula group). Chrysis (Hexachrysis) assamensis Mocsáry, 1913: 24 . Holotype ♀; India: Assam (HNHM) (examined) ( smaragdula group). Bischoff 1913: 64 (cat., Assam).

Material examined. 1 ♀, Sikhim iv.–v.1900 Bingham Coll., Collect. Bingham, Rani Mocs. typ. det. Mocsáry, Holotypus Chrysis rani (♀) Mocs. RMBohart, id nr. 135461 Hym. coll. ( HNHM) ; 1 ♀, Asia mer. Assam, assamensis Mocs. det. Mocsáry, Holotypus Chrysis assamensis (♀) Mocs. RMB, id. nr. 135475 HNHM Hym. coll. ( HNHM) .

Distribution. India (Assam; Sikkim).

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) synonymised Chrysis assamensis Mocsáry, 1913 with Ch. parallela Brullé, 1846 , nevertheless Ch. assamensis can be recognized by frontal transverse carina 1 × MOD far from the anterior ocellus (vs. 1.5–2.0 × MOD in Ch. parallela ), different sculpture of mesoscutellum with spaced punctures (vs. mesoscutellum with larger, deeper and closer punctures), tergum I with double punctation and tergum II with small, even punctures, antero-medially 1 × PD apart (vs. tergum I with large punctures and small dots in the interspaces, tergum II with a few shallow and very sparse punctures), tergum III with different shape of apical teeth. Chrysis assamensis (see figures in Rosa et al. 2014) is a colour aberration, and diagnostic morphological characters match Ch. rani Mocsáry, 1913 .