Amisega cyaniceps 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 : 504

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scientific name	Amisega cyaniceps Ducke, 1911
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Amisega cyaniceps Ducke, 1911 View in CoL

Amisega mocsaryi var. cyaniceps Ducke, 1911: 93 View in CoL . Syntypes ♂, ♀; Brazil: Amazonas: Tefé, 06.ix.1904, A. Ducke ( MZSP) , 29.ix.1904 ( MPEG) , 01.x.1904 ( MPEG) , 02.x.1904 ( MPEG) , 03.x.1904 ( MPEG) ; Santo Antônio do Içá , 31.viii.1905, A. Ducke ( MPEG) ; Rio Javari (unknown depository), Tabatinga , 12.x.1904, A. Ducke ( MPEG) , 16.x.1904 ( MPEG) . Peru: Loreto: Iquitos , 29.vii.1906, A. Ducke ( MPEG) .

Amisega mocsaryi View in CoL : Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 93).

Amisega cyaniceps View in CoL : Lucena et al. (2024: 13).

Lucena et al. (2024) elevated A. cyaniceps to species rank without providing any explanation. This taxon was previously synonymized with A. mocsaryi by Kimsey (1987), where A. cyaniceps was not mentioned, and by Kimsey & Bohart (1991). A visual comparison of the photographs of A. cyaniceps and the type material of A. mocsaryi reveals minimal differences, which could be interpreted as intraspecific variation. It is possible that the authors examined additional material that justifies separating the two species, however a comment supporting the status of A. cyaniceps as a valid species would be valuable in future publications.