Chrysis sybarita persis

Rosa, Paolo, Farhad, Afrouz, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Ameri, Ali, Baiocchi, Daniele, Halada, Marek & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2024, The Iranian Chrysididae (Hymenoptera), the current state of the art, with an updated checklist and description of eleven new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (4), pp. 827-951 : 905

Chrysis sybarita persis Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1967

Chrysis ( Tetrachrysis) sybarita var. persis Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1967:166. Holotype ♂; Kizaabad [according to Bobrinskoi, 1940: between Qazvin and Manjil], 16.v.1904, N. Zarudny ( St. Petersburg) ( graelsii group).

Chrysis graelsii Guérin-Meneville, 1842:148 ; Rosa et al., 2013:21 ( Qazvin).

Chrysis jaxartis Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1910:222; Rosa et al., 2013:23 ( Tehran).

Distribution. Iran ( Qazvin, Tehran) ( Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1967).

Remarks. In Rosa et al. (2013) two similar species were listed: Chrysis graelsii (with Chrysis sybarita persis as one of its synonyms, following the interpretation of Kimsey & Bohart, 1991) and C. jaxartis (based on Linsenmaier’s identification of a specimen from Elburz found at the Luzern Museum). The type of Chrysis sybarita persis was examined later in St. Petersburg ( Rosa et al., 2017a) and is not conspecific with C. graelsii but is more closely related to the Central European and Western Asian Chrysis sybarita (revalidated by Wiesbauer et al., 2020) based, among the others, on the shape of the apical teeth. Linsenmaier didn’t know and never reported Chrysis sybarita persis in his publications, therefore the identification of the Iranian specimen in his collection needs to be newly evaluated. For the moment, we consider only Chrysis sybarita persis in Iran, pending a complete morphological and genetic study, and taking into consideration that more species of this group may be anyway present in the country.