Stilbum cyanurum
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi
name: Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricostilbomycetes
Agaricostilbales
Chionosphaeraceae
Stilbum
Stilbum cyanurum

description: Stilbum cyanurum (Forster, 1771)
(Figs 78 A–78B)
Chrysis cyanura Forster, 1771: 89. Holotype ♂; Spain (NHMUK).
Chrysis splendida Fabricius, 1775: Donovan 1800 –1804: 115 (descr. Tamil Nadu: Tranquebar [= Tharangambadi]).
Stilbum cyanurum: Bingham 1903: 431 (key), 433–434 (descr., Sikhim [= Sikkim], the variety amethystinum is common and the true Stilbum cyanurum is not seen in India), 433 (fig. 151); Bingham 1908: 349 (Bihar: Purneah [= Purnia]); Suresh et al. 1999: 2 (Kerala: Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary), tab. 1; Mathew et al. 1998: 109 (Kerala: Silent Valley, Nelliampathy, Sholayar, Parambikulam); Mathew 2004: 219 (cat., Kerala); Anbalagan et al 2015: 102 (cat., Tamil Nadu); Tamil Nadu Thirupathisaram, Kanyakumari District).
Stilbum splendidum: du Buysson 1896b: 478 (West Bengal: Calcutta [= Kolkata]; Maharashtra: Poona [= Pune]; Gujarat: Surat, S Guzerat [= S Gujarat]; Chhattisgarh: Raipur; Tamil Nadu: Pondichery; Karnataka: Mysore), pl. III (figs 11, 12), pl. V (fig. 8).
Stilbum splendidum var. Lereillei (sic) du Buysson, 1896a: 678. Syntypes, India: Maharashtra: Bombay [= Mumbai] (MNHN). Emendated into leveillei by Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 567.
Stilbum cyanurum splendidum Spinola: Jonathan et al. 1977: 87 (India).
Stilbum sp. (superbum): Thakkar & Parikh 2018: 23 (cat., Gujarat).
Material examined. 1 ♂, Maharashtra: Bombay [= Mumbai], 23–28.x.1929; 1 ♂, Maharastra, 6mi. E Bhandara, 200m, 30.Ii.1962, leg. E.S. Ross & D.Q. Cavagnaro; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pennadam, 1932; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Set- tipatti, 17.v.1974, leg. W. Perraudin; 1 ♀, idem, 16.v.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 18.viii.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 21.viii.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 30.viii.1975; 5 ♂, 1 ♀, idem, 17.–18.x.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 19.x.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 2.vi.1976; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Omalur, Settipatti, 9.x.1975, leg. W. Perraudin; 1 ♀, idem, 10.x.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 18.xi.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 3.xii.1975; 1 ♀, idem, 22.ii.1976; 1 ♀, idem, 29.iii.1976; 4 ♀, idem, iii.1978; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Nagercoil, 50ft, 26.iii.1962, leg. E.S. Ross & D.Q. Cavagnaro; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, ix.1971 (PRC); 2 ♀, Pondicherry, Karaikal, ii.1983, leg. Nathan (PRC); 1 ♀, idem, xi.1987, leg. Nathan (PRC); 1 ♀, idem, x.1980 (PRC); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Tanjore [= Thanjavur], 21.iv.1938, leg. D.Y. Nedung; 1 ♀, Uttar Pradesh, Agra, 6.–8.xi.1929; 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai, x.1984, leg. Nathan (PRC); all examined specimens are deposited at MNLU.
Distribution. India (Bihar; Chhattisgarh; Gujarat; Karnataka; Kerala; Maharashtra; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal). Subcosmopolitan: Afrotropical, Australian, Oriental, Palaearctic, in tropics and warm temperate areas (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).
Genus Trichrysis Lichtenstein, 1876
Trichrysis Lichtenstein, 1876: 27 (as subgenus of Chrysis Linnaeus, 1761).
Type species: Sphex cyanea Linnaeus, 1758: 572 [= Trichrysis cyanea (Linnaeus, 1758)]. Monotypic.
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 78-79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4929.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4544556