Chrysis travancoriana ROSA, 2021

Chrysis travancoriana ROSA in ROSA et al., 2021 ( Figs 15 View Fig A-15E)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Pondicherry: 1♁, Karikal [= Karaikal], South India, [without further information] (NHMW).

R e m a r k s: Chrysis travancoriana was described based on two females. The male found at NHMW can be easily associated with the female of C. travancoriana , exhibiting the same diagnostic characters, such as the colour pattern green and blue with golden and red patches apico-laterally on first and second terga ( Fig. 15E View Fig ); the same structure of the third metasomal tergum, with six teeth, four of which apically aligned and two positioned on lateral edge ( Fig. 15E View Fig ); the peculiar sculpture on lateral area of mesoscutum between the notauli and the parapsidal signum, with punctures transversally contiguous ( Fig. 15D View Fig ). Other characters as follow: body length 5.3 mm, forewing length 3.0 mm. OOL = 1.5× MOD; POL = 2.1× MOD (in female, POL is 1.8× MOD and not 6.7 as erroneously given in the original description); MS distinctly shorter than in female = 0.7 × MOD; subantennal distance less than 1.0 MOD; relative length of P:F1:F2:F3 = 1.0:1.3:1.2:1.2, with very short first flagellomere, as long as the second. Scapal basin with the area below frons impunctate (fully punctate in females) and without the frons distinctly prominent over the scapal basin ( Fig. 9B View Fig ). All the differences mentioned above are compatible with sexual dimorphism.

I n d i a n r e c o r d s: Pondicherry *, Tamil Nadu ( ROSA et al. 2021a).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: India ( ROSA et al. 2021a).