Hedychrum coelestinum
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Hedychrum
Name
Hedychrum coelestinum Spinola, 1838 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hedychrum coelestinum: Spinola 1838[1]: 454.
Type locality
"Egypte".
Material
Holotype (?) ♀. Hedychrum coelestinum Kl. D.D. Waltl Égypte et Klug, Cap. B. Esp. // Paralectotype Hedychrum coelestinum ♀ Spinola det. L. D. French.
Catalogue Casolari & Casolari Moreno. Hedychrum coelestinum, 132, 23/53, 95, 2 (box 50).
Remarks
In the Spinola collection, two specimens from Egypt (D. Waltl) and South Africa (Cap B. [onne] Esp. [érance]" (D. Klug)) referring to this species are present. Only one specimen belongs to the original type series. However, it is currently impossible to state which one, since both specimens lack locality labels. At present, we cannot identify the specimen that had been collected in Egypt. Both specimens were examined by Dahlbom (1854[2]: 60) and they are found under the name "Hedychrum cœlestinum Kl.", a species never described by Klug. Dahlbom (1854)[2] erroneusly assigned this species to Klug and not to Spinola, even though he knew Spinola’s (1838)[1] paper. Furthermore, Dahlbom (1854)[2] named this species "caelestinum", which we consider an incorrect subsequent spelling (Madl and Rosa 2012[3]: 96). The two specimens were labelled as lectotype and paralectotype by L.D. French, but the lectotype designation has not been published. The two females have different colours: one is greenish and the second is a deep blue. The blue one was labelled by French as paralectotype, but the colour matches Spinola’s description ("La couleur du corps est d’un bleu plus intense") and we suppose that this one could be the type. In Dahlbom’s collection in LZM, there is another specimen labelled as type by a former curator, not by Dahlbom himself, and that refers to the specimen listed as "caelestinum Kl." (Dahlbom 1854[2]: 60).
Current status
Hedychrum coelestinum Spinola, 1838.
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 Spinola M (1838) Comte rendu des Hyménoptères recuillis par M. Fischer pendant son voyage en Égypte, et communiqués par M. le Docteur Waltl a Maximilien Spinola. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7: 437–546.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Dahlbom A (1854) Hymenoptera Europaea praecipue Borealia, formis typicis nonnullis, specierum generumve exoticorum propter nexum systematicum associatis, per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta ab Adrea Gustavo Dahlbom. Chrysis in sensu Linneano. Vol. II, F. Nicolai, Berlin, 412 pp.
- ↑ Madl M, Rosa P (2012) A Catalogue of the Chrysididae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 44(1): 5–169.
