Trichrysis lusca
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi
name: Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Trichrysis
Trichrysis lusca

description: Trichrysis lusca (Fabricius, 1804)
(Figs 82 A–82D)
Chrysis lusca Fabricius, 1804: 171. Holotype ♀; Italy (accidentally introduced) (ZMUC) (examined). du Buysson 1896: 475 (key), 476 (Central provinces; Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Karnataka: Bangalore [= Bengaluru], Rajabrampoor, Mysore; Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry); Dalla Torre 1892: 76 (cat., India); du Buysson 1898b: 76 (Hindoustan [= India]: North Konkan); du Buysson 1900: 153 (Balasore [= Baleshwar]); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 484 (descr., throughout India); Bingham 1908: 349 (West Bengal: Murshidabad, it occurs throughout India); Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (India: Arunachal Pradesh); Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 22 (cat., Gujarat).
Chrysis (Pentachrysis) lusca: Mocsáry 1889: 527–528 (descr., India orientalis, Rajarampore, Neelgherries, Tamil Nadu: Pondicherry, Tranquebar [= Tharangambadi]); Bischoff 1913: 62 (cat., India).
Praestochrysis lusca: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 533 (cat., India).
Chrysis bengalensis Mocsáry, 1889: 527. Holotype ♀; India Orientalis, Maharashtra: Bombay (HNHM). Dalla Torre 1892: 47 (cat., India); Bingham 1903: 439 (key), 482–483 (descr., Maharashtra: Bombay, Madras [= Chennai]); Bingham 1908: 349 (Bihar: Purneah [= Purnia].
Chrysis (Pentachrysis) bengalensis: Bischoff 1913: 62 (cat., India).
Trichrysis lusca: Suresh et al. 1999: 2 (Kerala: Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary) (tab.1); Mathew 2004: 219 (cat., Kerala).
Material examined. 1 ♀, Bombay leg. Stockinger, 755-1, Bengalensis Mocs. typ. det. Mocsáry Chrysis lusca F. Linsenmaier det. 62, Holotypus Chrysis bengalensis ♀ Mocs. RMB, id nr. 135510 HNHM Hym.coll. (HNHM); 2 ♀, Karikal, Malabar, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Kerala, Thenmala, v.1985, leg. Nathan (PRC); 12 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, without further data (NHMW); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, viii.1932, leg. Nathan (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Kurumbagaram, 22.ix.1951, leg. S. Nathan (MNLU); 3 ♀, idem, ix.1951 (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Settipatti, 13.vi.1975, leg. W. Perraudin (MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 16.vi.1975 (MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 3.vii.1976 (MNLU); 3 ♀, idem, xi.1979 (MNLU); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Salem, Settipatti, 14.x.1975, leg. W. Perraudin (MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 5.xi.1975 (MNLU); 1 ♀, idem, 29.xi.1975 (MNLU); 4 ♀, idem, iii.1978 (MNLU).
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. 2016a); 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. 2016a). Afrotropical: Mauritius and Réunion (Azevedo et al. 2010).
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 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4929.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4544556