Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON 1898

Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON 1898

Chrysis Rabaudi View in CoL n.sp.: du BUYSSON 1898b: 527 (descr., Somalia), pl. 19 (figs 3a, b). Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON : du BUYSSON 1899: 165 (tax., South Africa). Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON : du BUYSSON 1900: 147 ( South Africa). Chrysis rabaudi BRUYSS. (!): du BUYSSON 1904: 263 ( Eritrea). Chrysis ( Tetrachrysis) rabaudi du BUYSSON : BISCHOFF 1913: 58 (cat.). Chrysis ( Chrysis) rabaudi du BUYSSON : LINSENMAIER 1968: 92 (tax., descr., Nigeria, Somalia). Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON : KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 455 (tax., Somalia, South Africa, cat.,

alternans group). * Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) heroum n.sp.: MOCSÁRY 1908b: 524 (descr., South Africa). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) heroum MOCSÁRY : BISCHOFF 1913: 65 (cat.). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) heroum MOCSÁRY : INVREA 1953: 67 ( Ethiopia). Chrysis heroum MOCSÁRY : EDNEY 1954b: 657 (syn.). Chrysis heroum MOCSÁRY : KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 455 ( lectotype design. by Bohart, South

Africa). * Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) laetifica n.sp.: MOCSÁRY 1908b: 523 (descr., South Africa). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) laetifica MOCSÁRY : BISCHOFF 1913: 65 (cat.). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) laetifica MOCSÁRY : EDNEY 1954b: 634 (key), 657 (tax., descr., South

Africa, Zimbabwe), 672 (fig. 3c), 673 (fig. 4t). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis) laetifica MOCSÁRY : EDNEY 1962: 866 ( Zimbabwe). Chrysis laetifica Mocsáry : KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 455 (syn.).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

LINSENMAIER (1968) includes Chrysis rabaudi du BUYSSON in the pallidicornis group, but KIMSEY & BOHART (1990: 455) in the alternans group. Both groups are quite different.