Caenochrysis producta ( Brullé, 1846 )

Rosa, Paolo & Brothers, Denis J., 2025, Nomenclatural and taxonomic updates on the Brazilian cuckoo-wasp catalogue (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Zootaxa 5642 (6), pp. 501-541 : 508

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5642.6.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15818315
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scientific name	Caenochrysis producta ( Brullé, 1846 )
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Caenochrysis producta ( Brullé, 1846)

Chrysis producta Brullé, 1846: 44 . Holotype ♀; Brazil: Minas Gerais, C.M. Aug. Saint-Hillaire (MNHN, examined). Synonymized with Chrysis brasiliana Guérin-Méneville, 1842 by Mocsáry (1889).

Caenochrysis brasiliana : Kimsey & Bohart (1991); Lucena et al. (2024: 16).

Material examined. Holotype ♀: des Mines / Museum Paris des Mines / Chrysis producta Br. <handwritten by Brullé> type. <handwritten by du Buysson> / Chrysis brasiliana Guérin R. du Buysson det. 1898 / Holotypus Chrysis producta ♀ Brullé P. Rosa vidit 2016 ( MNHN).

The type depository of Chrysis producta was given as doubtfully MNHN in Kimsey & Bohart (1991) and Lucena et al. (2024). The specimen is indeed housed at MNHN. This taxon was synonymized with Chr. brasiliana Guérin-Méneville, 1842 by Mocsáry (1889) and PR also examined its type at MSNG. Some differences between the two exist, though these were not evaluated across a larger series. The mesopleuron differs in shape, having a short, incomplete episternal sulcus compared to the complete and elongate sulcus in Chr. brasiliana , and the black spots on the second sternum are smaller in Chr. producta . More material is needed to determine whether Chr. producta should be resurrected from synonymy.