Chrysis oculata Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi
name: Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Chrysis
Chrysis oculata

description: Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775
(Figs 48 A–48E)
Chrysis oculata Fabricius, 1775: 357. Holotype ♀; India: Malabar (ZMUC) (examined). Fabricius 1781: 455 (cat., India: Mala- bar); Gmelin 1790: 2744 (descr., Malabar); Donovan 1800: 114 (descr., Tranqebar [= Tharangambadi]); Fabricius 1804: 171 (descr., Tranqebar [= Tharangambadi]); Dahlbom 1854: 310–311 (descr., Tranquebar); Dalla Torre 1892: 82 (cat., India); du Buysson 1896b: 477–478 (Calcutta [= Kolkata], Poona [= Pune] Raipur, Pondichery, Mysore), 477 (key), pl. III (fig. 8); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 488–489 (descr., probably the whole of Continental India), pl. I (fig. 15); Bingham 1908: 349 (Purneah [= Purnia]); Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (cat., India); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 445 (cat., India, oculata group); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 23 (cat., Gujarat).
Stilbum oculata: Blanchard 1840: 297 (descr., India Orientalis).
Chrysis siva Mocsáry, 1889: 545. Holotype ♀; India: Bengal (HNHM).
Pyria oculata: Brullé 1846: 19 (descr., India Orientalis).
Chrysis (Hexachrysis) oculata Gribodo: Mocsáry 1889: 543–544 (descr., India Orientalis); Bischoff 1913: 67 (cat., India).
Material examined. India: 3 ♀, Karikal, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Karnataka, Bellary, 1883, leg. Chater (NHMW); 1 ♀, Karnataka, Mysore, Shimoga, 1865 ft, 24.vii.1937, leg. P.S. Nathan (MNLU); 1 ♀, Kerala, Wa- layar forest, Malabar, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Sikhim, Coll. Bingham (HNHM); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data (NHMW); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry [= Puducherry], without further data (NHMW); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nettapakam, Pondicherry [= Puducherry], without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Moyar Camp, 2900 feet, v.1954, leg. Nathan (NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Tranquebar [= Tha- rangambadi], x.1951, leg. S. Nathan (MNLU); 4 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram, ix.1951, leg. Nathan (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills, Moyar Camp, 2600 feet, iv.1954, leg. Nathan (MNLU); 2 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Set- tipatti, iii.1978, leg. W. Perraudin (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai, x.1984, leg. Nathan (PRC); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry [= Puducherry], Karaikal, x.1997, leg. T. Nathan (PRC); 1 ♀, Uttarakhand, Haldwani Distr., Kumaon, leg. F.G. Champion (MNLU); 1 ♀, India (likely Gujarat or Pakistan), 1934, leg. T.R. Bell (MNLU); 1 ♀, India, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Bombay Stockinger, 755-2, Chrysis L. oculata Fabr. Linsenmaier det. 62, Holotypus Chrysis siva ♀ Mocs. RMB, id nr. 135 414 HNHM Hym.coll. (HNHM).
Distribution. India (Bihar; Chhattisgarh; Puducherry; Karnataka; Kerala; Maharashtra; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; Uttarakhand; West Bengal; Bengal (locality not specified); Malabar (locality not specified); India Orientalis (locality not specified); Myanmar, Sri Lanka (Jonathan et al. 1977).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4929 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4929.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4544556