An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) Author Rosa, Paolo Author Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi 0000-0001-5819-9858 aswathipg19@gmail.com Author Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan 0000-0002-5016-0454 drbijoyc@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-02-17 4929 1 1 100 journal article 7429 10.11646/zootaxa.4929.1.1 d54a604d-13dd-478c-99e5-b31c1411e111 1175-5326 4544556 1290857D-36E6-47DE-81C7-70CBD7C0AE01 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 ).