Chrysis jousseaumei du Buysson, 1898

Neveen, Paolo Rosa, Gadallah, Neveen S. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2025, New findings of cuckoo wasps for Yemen with nomenclatural changes and review of the Arabian hexadentate species of the genus Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zoosystema 47 (11), pp. 151-166 : 165

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( Fig. 7A, C, E View FIG )

Chrysis jousseaumei du Buysson, 1898: 538 .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Somalia ♂; MNHN (examined).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Yemen • 3 ♂, 1 ♀; Lahj; III-V.2002; Malaise trap; A. van Harten & A. Sallum leg.; RMNH • 1 ♀; Seyun; light trap; 12-14.VII.2002; A. van Harten leg.; RMNH .

DISTRIBUTION IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. — United Arab Emirates ( Linsenmaier 1994 as Chrysis (Hexachrysis) jousseaumei ; Howarth & Gillett 2008; Strumia 2008; Madl 2018); Yemen ( Linsenmaier 1994 as Chrysis (Hexachrysis) jousseaumei ).

EXTRALIMITAL DISTRIBUTION. — Somalia to Saudi Arabia (see Remark).

DIAGNOSIS. — Body length: 8.0-11.0 mm. Body entirely metallic dark blue and violet to dark purple ( Fig. 7A, C, E View FIG ), including legs; scape and pedicel metallic green; wings slightly ambrate, with ancillary vein originating from the Radial sector. First flagellomere l/w = 1.5; second flagellomere 1.7 × longer than the first; transverse frontal carina strong, sharp, M-shaped, with two upwards branches encircling anterior ocellus ( Fig. 7A View FIG ); apical margin of clypeus sharp, metallic blue and protruding; body sculpture with very large punctures (0.8 MOD) separated by polished interspaces ( Fig. 7E View FIG ), weakly wrinkled on mesoscutum; mesopleuron with large tooth on anteroventral margin ( Fig. 7C View FIG ); apical margin with six elongate and pointed teeth; black spots on second sternum transverse, connected to lateral margin, fused medially, with straight apical margin.

REMARK

Chrysis jousseaumei is known from the Afrotropical ( Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen) and Palaearctic ( Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates) regions.