Hedychrum caerulescens
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Hedychrum
Name
Hedychrum caerulescens Lepeletier, 1806 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hedychrum caerulescens: Lepeletier 1806[1]: 122.
Type locality
"Mâle et femelle. Donné par M. Walkenaer qui l’a trouvée aux environs de Paris".
Material
Lectotype (here designated) ♂. Hedychrum caeruleus (Chrysis) Deg. [De Geer] – (Omalus) Dhlbm. Hedychrum caerulescens Lepel. 122 coll. St. Fargeau, Parisiae.
Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Hedychrum caeruleus, 36, 185, 53, 1 (box 50).
Remarks
Lepeletier (1806)[1] described Hedychrum caerulescens based on two specimens, one male and one female. One of these two syntypes was acquired by Spinola and belongs to the species Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763); the second syntype is housed at MNHN. Du Buysson (1898[2]: 563) listed one specimen in Lepeletier’s collection Hedychrum coerulescens = Ellampus caeruleus (De Geer), but it is not listed as a type. We examined the second syntype (currently in the general collection MNHN box 8). It belongs to the same species, Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli), even though it is placed under the name of Omalus aeneus (Fabricius).
We designate as lectotype of Hedychrum caerulescens Lepeletier the syntype male. The reason is to fix the synonym with Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli). The specimen is damaged, lacking its fore wings and left hind wing, and it is partially covered by mould.
Current status
Pseudomalus violaceus (Scopoli, 1763) (synonymised by Dalla Torre 1892[3]: 19; transferred by Kimsey and Bohart 1991[4]: 270).
Taxon Treatment
- Rosa, P; Xu, Z; 2015: Annotated type catalogue of the Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the collection of Maximilian Spinola (1780–1857), Turin ZooKeys, (471): 1-96. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lepeletier A (1806) Mémoire sur quelques espèces nouvelles d’insectes de la section des Hyménoptères appelés les Portetuyaux, et sur les caractères de cette famille et des genres qui la composent. Annales du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 7: 115–129.
- ↑ Buysson R (1898) Étude des Chrysidides du Muséum de Paris. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66(4): 518–580.
- ↑ Dalla Torre C (1892) Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Chrysididae (Tubulifera). Tip. G. Engelmann, Lipsiae, 118 pp.
- ↑ Kimsey L, Bohart R (1991) The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. University Press, New York, 652 pp.