Trichrysis lusca
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi
name: Wiśniowski, Bogdan
name: Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Trichrysis
Trichrysis lusca

description: Trichrysis lusca (Fabricius, 1804)
Figs 4, 7C
Chrysis lusca Fabricius, 1804: 171.
Chrysis lusca – du Buysson 1896: 475 (in key), 476. — Dalla Torre 1892: 76. — du Buysson 1898b: 76. — du Buysson 1900: 153. — Bingham 1903: 439 (in key), 484; 1908: 349. — Jonathan et al. 1977: 87. — Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22.
Chrysis (Pentachrysis) lusca – Mocsáry 1889: 527–528. — Bischoff 1913: 62.
Praestochrysis lusca – Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 533.
Trichrysis lusca – Suresh et al. 1999: 2. — Mathew 2004: 219. — Rosa et al. 2021a: 81, fig. 82.
Material examined
Holotype ITALY [given in the original description] • ♀ [square green label]; “TYPE”; “Schlanbusch, Mus: T: Lund, Chrysis, lusca, Fabr. ”; “ Chrysis lusca F., Syst. Piez. 1804.171.7”; “ ZMUC 00241218 ”; ZMUC.
Other material INDIA • 2 ♀♀; Karikal, Malabar; without further data; NHMW • 1 ♀; Kerala, Kannur, Ulikkal; 12°01′ N, 75°40′ E; 5 Feb. 2021; A.S. Prakash leg.; CCSERLC118; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Ernakulam, Moothakunnam; 10°11′ N, 76°12’,E; 27 Jul. 2020, N.A. Kashmeera leg.; CCSERLC87; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Kozhikode, Malaparamba; 11°17′ N, 75°48′ E; 3 Feb. 2021; P.G. Aswathi leg.; CCSERLC112; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Kasargod, Periyanganam; 12°18′ N, 75°15′ E; 28 Feb. 2020; sweep net; CCSERLC13; SERL • 3 ♀♀; Kerala, Idukki, Marakkanam; 9°57′ N, 77°02′ E; 19 Apr. 2020; T.D. Dhanoop leg.; CCSERLC182 to 184; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Thenmala; May 1985; Nathan leg.; PRC • 1 ♀; Kerala, Wayanad, Kambalakkad; 11°40′ N, 76°05′ E; 19 Mar. 2020; CCSERLC24; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Wayanad, Kallur; 11°39′ N, 76°19′ E; 20 Nov. 2020; sweep net; P.G. Aswathi leg.; CCSERLC93; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Wayanad, Mananthavady; 11°46′ N, 75°59′ E; 20 Jan. 2021; P.G. Aswathi leg.; CCSERLC99; SERL • 1 ♀; Kerala, Wayanad, Vakery; 11°41′ N, 76°12′ E; 5 May 2020; P.G. Aswathi leg.; CCSERLC79; SERL • 12 ♀♀; Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore; without further data; NHMW • 1 ♀; Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore; Aug. 1932; Nathan leg.; NMLU • 1 ♀; Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram; 22 Sep. 1951; S. Nathan leg.; NMLU • 3 ♀♀; Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram; Sep. 1951; MNLU • 1 ♀; Tamil Nadu, Settipatti; 13 Jun. 1975; W. Perraudin leg.; NMLU • 1 ♀; same locality data as for preceding; 16 Jun. 1975; NMLU • 1 ♀; same locality data as for preceding; 3 Jul. 1976; NMLU • 3 ♀; same locality data as for preceding; Nov. 1979; MNLU • 1 ♀; Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Salem Settipatti; 14 Oct. 1975; W. Perraudin leg.; NMLU • 1 ♀; same locality data as for preceding; 5 Nov. 1975; NMLU • 1 ♀; same locality data as for preceding; 29 Nov. 1975; NMLU • 4 ♀♀; same locality data as for preceding; Mar. 1978; NMLU.
Distribution
India (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajarampore, Nilgiris); China (Hubei, Hunan, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Macao, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan) (Rosa et al. 2016); Australia, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand (Kimsey & Bohart 1991); Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Jonathan et al. 1977), Sri Lanka, Vietnam (Rosa et al. 2016). Afrotropical: Mauritius and Réunion (Azevedo et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi, Wiśniowski, Bogdan & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2022, Preliminary revision of the Indian cuckoo wasp genera Trichrysis Lichtenstein, 1876 and Chrysidea Bischoff, 1910, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 117-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 852 on pages 128-129, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.852.2017, http://zenodo.org/record/7501490