Chrysis lyncea Fabricius, 1775

Neveen, Paolo Rosa, Gadallah, Neveen S. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2025, New findings of cuckoo wasps for Yemen with nomenclatural changes and review of the Arabian hexadentate species of the genus Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zoosystema 47 (11), pp. 151-166 : 158-160

Chrysis lyncea Fabricius, 1775

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Chrysis lincea Fabricius, 1775: 357 .

Chrysis lyncea – Fabricius 1781: 455 (emendation of lincea Fabricius, 1775 ).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype • sex unknown; Sierra Leone, type possibly lost.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Yemen • 2 ♀; Wadi Higgan ; 7.VIII.1936; M.T. leg.; EFC .

DIAGNOSIS. — Body length: 8.0- 12 mm. Body colour varying from entirely green to blue, with or without darker or purple reflections; legs including basitarsi metallic green; scapal basin punctate-rugose; first flagellomere reduced in both sexes (l/w = 1); pronotal humeral angle strongly produced, acute; metanotal mucron elongate, triangular, medially carinate and apically blunt and impunctate ( Fig. 8B ); mesopleuron largely smooth, polished medially ( Fig. 8C ), with two distinct ventral teeth, the lower of which conspicuously large, pointed and sharply carinate; lateral tooth on third tergum small, placed basally ( Fig. 8E ); wings darkened; metasomal sterna metallic green, with two small, oval black spots widely separated from lateral margin and between each other ( Fig. 8F ).

DISTRIBUTION IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. — Oman, United Arab Emirates ( Linsenmaier 1994 as C. (Pyria) lyncea ; Howarth & Gillett 2008; Strumia 2008), Yemen (new record).

EXTRALIMITAL DISTRIBUTION. — Cyprus ( Linsenmaier 1959, 1994, 1999), Sub-Saharan Africa ( Linsenmaier 1959, 1994, 1999), Northern Africa.

REMARK

Other taxa described as variations of C. lyncea from Oriental and Australian regions are currently under revision and will be elevated to species rank.

Figures

FIG. 8. — Chrysis lyncea Fabricius, 1775, females from Limassol, Cyprus (NMLU): A, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; B, mesosoma, dorsal view; C, head and mesosoma, lateral view; D, metasoma, dorsal view; E, second and third metasomal tergum, lateral view; F, metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm.