Hedychridium krajniki turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968

Rosa, Paolo, Heim, René & Bernasconi, Marco Valerio, 2022, The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 2. Elampini: genus Hedychridium Abeille de Perrin, 1878, Zootaxa 5090 (1), pp. 1-94 : 36

Hedychridium krajniki turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968

( Fig. 36A–36E )

Hedychridium (Hedychridium) krajniki turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968: 30 (descr., ardens group).

Hedychridium turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968 stat. nov.: here upgraded to species rank.

Type locality. Turkey: “ Klein-Asien , Ulu Dag 1500 m, ♀ Type leg. Bytinski-Salz (an Oxybelus -Kolonie) in Coll. m.”.

Holotype, ♀: Uludag 1500m Turkey 12.8.1951 leg. Bytinski-Salz // ♀ Type Hedychridium Ab. krajniki turceyanus Lins. Linsenmaier det. 1963 // 217 // NML _ ENT GBIF _ Chr0009504 (ex type-collection).

Remarks. Hedychridium krajniki turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968 stat. nov. is here upgraded to species rank because the size is costantly larger, the sculpture of mesonotum is distinctly smaller, and the colour pattern is different, with fully red pronotum and scutellum, and golden metanotum. It is a member of a Turanic species distributed from Anatolia to Central Asia (data unpubl.) which only superficially resemble the European H. krajniki Balthasar, 1946 .

Figures

FIGURE 36. Hedychridium krajniki turceyense Linsenmaier, 1968, holotype, female.A) Habitus, dorsal view. B) Head frontal view. C) Habitus, lateral view. D) Mesosoma, dorsal view. E) Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar 1 mm.