Chrysis oxyacantha Mocsáry, 1913

Chrysis oxyacantha Mocsáry, 1913

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Chrysis (Heptachrysis) oxyacantha Mocsáry, 1913: 41 .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Eritrea • ♀; Keren ; HMNH (examined).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Yemen • 1 ♀; Hajjah Governorate, Hirran ; 28.IV.1936; M.T. leg.; EFC • 1 ♂; Sana’a University Campus , 2300m; 3.XI.2005; J. Halada leg.; coll. MHC • 1 ♂; Wadi Sudd , 10 km W Marib, 1120 m; 8.X.2005; [15°24’N, 45°16’E]; J. Halada leg.; MHC GoogleMaps .

Oman • 1♂; 17 km W of Súr ; 15.III.2015; M. Snižek leg.; coll. MHC • 1 ♂; E of Súr, S of Shiya ; 15.III.2015; [22°30’31”N, 59°25’15”E]; L. Černý leg.; MHC GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. — Body length: 11.5-13.0 mm. Metallic green to blue, face golden-green; scape metallic green, rest of antenna dark brown; wings brown with dark veins. First flagellomere short (l/w = 0.8); second flagellomere 3× as long as the first; transverse frontal carina strong, sharp, M-shaped with upwards branches ( Fig. 10A View FIG ); pronotal humeral angles acute, pointing upwards; propodeal antero-median line very deep; notauli exceptionally wide and deep ( Fig. 10C View FIG ), width decreasing towards anterior margin; notauli width basally larger than largest punctures on mesoscutum ( Fig. 10D View FIG ); metanotal plate triangular, basally concave; mesopleuron densely, coarsely punctate, with scrobal area forming a ventral, pointed tooth; first tergum densely dotted between larger punctures, second and third tergum with polished intervals between punctures; apical margin of third tergum with six triangular, pointed teeth ( Fig. 10E View FIG ); black spots of second sternum large, sub-quadrate, with apical margin arcuate, distinctly separated medially and from lateral sternal margins ( Fig. 10F View FIG ).

DISTRIBUTION IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. — Oman (new record), Yemen (new record).

EXTRALIMITAL DISTRIBUTION. — Eritrea ( Mocsáry 1913), Mali (new record).

REMARK

The type has a very small denticle between apico-median teeth of third tergum, and for this reason the species was described in the subgenus Heptachrysis Mocsáry, 1889 .