A new species and new records of cuckoo wasps from Pakistan and India (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

Abstract

Chrysis arkadyisp. nov. from India and Pakistan is herein described in the C. splendidula species group, and C. speculata du Buysson, 1896 is recorded for the first time from Pakistan. The Chrysis autocrata species group, established by Linsenmaier (1997), is synonymised with the C. succincta species group, and the C. serpentula species group, established by Tarbinsky (2002), is synonymised with the C. splendidula species group. C. autocrata Nurse, 1903 syn. nov. and C. ewridica Tarbinsky, 2001 syn. nov. are considered junior synonyms of C. variana du Buysson, 1901. A key to the seven species of the C. succincta species group so far known from Pakistan and India is provided.

Preliminary revision of the Indian cuckoo wasp genera Trichrysis Lichtenstein, 1876 and Chrysidea Bischoff, 1910, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

“…Subcosmopolitan species, distributed in the Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental Regions (Kimsey & Bohart 1991). The current number of known species from India for the genera Trichrysis and Chrysidea is here updated to 10 and 4 respectively (Rosa et al 2021a(Rosa et al , 2021bRosa & Halada 2021;Aswathi & Bijoy 2021).…”