Ipsiura brevispina ( Ducke, 1911 )

Rosa, Paolo & Brothers, Denis J., 2025, Nomenclatural and taxonomic updates on the Brazilian cuckoo-wasp catalogue (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zootaxa 5642 (6), pp. 501-541 : 525

Ipsiura brevispina ( Ducke, 1911)

Chrysis brevispina Ducke, 1911: 102 . Syntypes (not lectotype ♂ by inference of “ holotype ”). Brazil: Pará , Óbidos (MZSP).

Neochrysis (Ipsiura) brevispinosa : Kimsey & Bohart (1981): incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ipsiura brevispina : Bohart (1985); Kimsey (1985); Kimsey & Bohart (1991); Rosa (2009); Lucena et al. (2016, 2019, 2024: 35).

Neochrysis (Ipsiura) brevispina : Linsenmaier (1985).

Material examined. Syntype ♀: Obidos 2.1.1907 Ducke <handwritten by Ducke> / Chrysis ♂ brevispina tipo Ducke <handwritten by Ducke> / Brazil Estado do Pará / ex Coll. Gribodo Brasile Para A. Ducke <handwritten by Invrea> ( MSNG).

Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 508) inadvertently referred to the syntype deposited at MZSP as the “ holotype ”. Lucena et al. (2024) considered the latter as the lectotype by inference of “ holotype ” designated by Kimsey & Bohart (1991), incorrectly applying Code Art. 74.6. Actually Code Art. 74.6 precludes lectotype designation by inference of “ holotype ” in this case because the type series was explicitly based on an unknown number of syntypes, body size specified as 7–7.5 mm, as actually noted by Lucena et al. (2024); their intended designation of a lectotype is therefore invalid. PR has examined only the syntype deposited at MSNG, and a lectotype, if needed, should be designated and illustrated only after analysis of all the available syntypes. For the moment, we do not consider any lectotype designation for this species to be necessary.