Review of the Palaearctic species of the genus Colpopyga (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of a new species

P. Rosa

Abstract. Colpopyga Semenov, 1954, a chrysidid genus of the tribe Elampini (Chrysididae: Chrysidinae) with four Palaearctic and one Nearctic species, is reviewed. The study of internal urites (Noskiewicz & Lorencova, 1963) and new molecular data (Niehuis, pers. comm.) show a generic status of Colpopyga, which is more related to the genus Holopyga Dahlbom, 1854. A new species, Colpopyga nesterovi sp. nov. from Kazakhstan, is described and illustrated; it is easily recognizable by the red-coppery body coloration and shallow, small and sparse punctures. The status of the subspecies Hedychridium flavipes temperatum Linsenmaier, 1959 is updated to species level in the genus Colpopyga (comb. nov.). New generic combinations are also proposed for C. aureiventris (Mercet, 1904), comb. nov. and C. crassa (Bohart, 1978), comb. nov. (all from the genus Hedychridium). The lectotype of Hedychridium flavipes var. cyanomaculatum Trautmann, 1927 is designated.

Key words: Kazakhstan, Chrysidinae, Elampini, Hedychridium, new species, new combinations

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2017, 26(2): 294–306 ▪ Published in print 25 December 2017

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2017.26.2.294 ▪ Open full article

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