Chrysura radians (Harris 1776)
- Dataset
- Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Chrysididae
- genus
- Chrysura
- species
- Chrysura radians
discussion
Remarks. The species is known from all Nordic and Baltic countries except Finland, and it is not known from Russian Fennoscandia either. In Norway, the species has been classified as data deficient (Hansen et al. 2010). A possible record from central Finland (Sb: Juva) was mentioned by Forsius (1925: 183, as Holochrysis pustulosa), but the record could not been verified. Silfverberg (1981: 61) included the species in the Finnish fauna erroneously (as Chrysis pustulosa), as pointed out by Vikberg (1986 a: 61). The species was also reported from Russian Fennoscandia (Kon: Kizhi archipelago) by Polevoi et al. (2005: 111, as Chrysis pustulosa), but this record was based on a misidentified specimen of C. hirsuta (specimen checked). Chrysura radians is a southern species in Sweden and Norway, and in Estonia it has been found only from the west coast (Soon 2004). The records from Lapland (Trautmann 1927: 111, Benno 1950: 45, Haupt 1957: 77, as C. pustulosa) and the Arctic (Trautmann 1930: 501, as C. pustulosa) are most likely erroneous. As noted earlier, Chrysura hirsuta has been separated from C. radians in the Nordic literature from the 1870 s onwards, and thus earlier records of C. radians can include either species. Dahlbom’s early records (1829, 1831 and 1854) of C. bicolor (= C. radians) from southern Sweden represent with certainty (based on type specimens) C. radians, but possibly also C. hirsuta. The northern records most likely refer to C. hirsuta, as the distribution of C. radians is restricted to the south.
distribution
Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden. — Transpalearctic: from West Europe and North Africa to West Asia and Siberia (Linsenmaier 1959).
Name
- Homonyms
- Chrysura radians (Harris 1776)