Chrysis succincta
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Chrysis
Name
Chrysis succincta species group – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chrysis succincta group: Linsenmaier 1959[1]: 92 (key), 106 (diagn.). Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 324 (key), 363 (diagn.).
- Chrysis succincta s.str. subgroup: Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 362 (diagn.).
- Chrysis autocrata group: Linsenmaier 1997[2]: 275, syn. nov.
Diagnosis
The succincta species group includes more than a hundred species distributed worldwide, with a large majority known in the Palaearctic region, and subdivided into succincta s.str. subgroup and leachii subgroup (or leachii group according to Linsenmaier 1959[1]). Usually, Palaearctic species are easily recognised by their slender habitus and by their peculiar colouration, with the body largely red coloured. The most diagnostic feature is anyhow the prominent brow, often ridge-like, and the transverse frontal carina which is usually only partially developed; females scapal basin is always polished medially in the succincta s.str. subgroup, whereas it is finely striated in the leachii subgroup, while in males it is finely punctate in both subgroups. The apical margin of tergum III is highly variable, bearing from none to four teeth or two median teeth almost fused together and projecting medially.
Hosts
Crabronidae (Pauli et al. 2019[3]).
Remarks
Linsenmaier (1997)[2] established the autocrata species group, based on Chrysis autocrata Nurse, 1903. After type examination of the latter, we propose the new synonymy Chrysis variana du Buysson, 1901 = Chrysis autocrata Nurse, 1903, syn. nov. Chrysis variana (see pictures of the type in Rosa et al. 2020[4]) is a widespread Central Asian species of the succincta group (known from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan), and apparently unknown to Linsenmaier, as it is not listed in his papers and was not found in his collection. Consequently, we synonymize the autocrata species group with the succincta species group, because it is not sufficiently supported by morphological diagnostic characters. During the examination of the Palaearctic types of cuckoo wasps, the first author also observed that the holotype of Chrysis ewridica Tarbinsky, 2001 (described from Kyrgyzstan, Jalal-Abad) is a female of Chrysis variana and therefore we here propose also the new synonymy Chrysis variana du Buysson, 1901 = Chrysis ewridica Tarbinsky, 2001, syn. nov.
Taxon Treatment
- Rosa, P; Baiocchi, D; Halada, M; Proshchalykin, M; 2021: A new species and new records of cuckoo wasps from Pakistan and India (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 84: 283-294. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linsenmaier W (1959) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Brücksichtigung der europäischen Spezies.Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft32: 1–232.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Linsenmaier W (1997) Altes und Neues von den Chrysididen. (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae).Entomofauna18(19): 245–300.
- ↑ Pauli T, Castillo-Cajas R, Rosa P, Kukowka S, Berg A, van den Berghe E, Fornoff F, Hopfenmüller S, Niehuis M, Peters R, Staab M, Strumia F, Tischendorf S, Schmitt F, Niehuis O (2019) Phylogenetic analysis of cuckoo wasps (Chrysididae) reveals the partially artificial nature of the current classification at the genus level in this family of Hymenoptera.Systematic Entomology44(2): 322–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12323
- ↑ Rosa P, Madl M, Zettel H, Zimmermann D (2020) Annotated catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) types deposited at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B: 17–140.
