Adelphe metallica ( Kieffer, 1910 )

Rosa, Paolo & Brothers, Denis J., 2025, Nomenclatural and taxonomic updates on the Brazilian cuckoo-wasp catalogue (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zootaxa 5642 (6), pp. 501-541 : 503-504

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5642.6.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3B7CA64C-AD05-47CB-B698-D89357A5ECD5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15818279
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scientific name	Adelphe metallica ( Kieffer, 1910 )
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Adelphe metallica ( Kieffer, 1910) View in CoL

Parachrysis metallica Kieffer, 1910: 288 View in CoL . Holotype ♂; Brazil: Pará, Belém, A. Baker. Synonym of Pseudepyris flavipes Ducke, 1903 according to Ducke (1911).

Adelphe metallica View in CoL : Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 86); Kimsey (2008: 161).

Adelphe flavipes View in CoL : Lucena et al. (2024: 7)

Adelphe metallica View in CoL was considered a valid species within the genus Adelphe View in CoL by Kimsey & Bohart (1991), and Kimsey (2008) who revised the Neotropical species and provided diagnostic characters in a key. However, Lucena et al. (2024) synonymized this species again, apparently based on the interpretation by Ducke (1911). We have not personally examined any type material and consider the measurements provided by Kimsey (2008) possibly to reflect intraspecific variability. Nonetheless, further clarification by the authors on their synonymization would have been welcome to better understand their species concept and whether they examined type material or based their interpretation solely on Ducke (1911).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Chrysididae
Genus	Adelphe