New records for the Indian cuckoo wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of two new species and remarks on types of Smith and Cameron Author Rosa, Paolo text Journal of Natural History 2023 2023-11-03 57 29 - 32 1396 1433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2250158 journal article 284802 10.1080/00222933.2023.2250158 ceff4be9-64e7-44f0-b6c5-14081fc5efa2 1464-5262 10492656 Chrysis principalis Smith, 1874 ( Figure 18A–18F ) Chrysis principalis Smith, 1874 , p. 461 . Syntypes ♀ ; China : Shanghai ( NHMUK , OUMUK ) . Chrysis principalis : Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 450 (cat., holotype deposited at OUMUK , smaragdula group). Material examined 1♀ : N. China / Chrysis principalis Type Smith /Type/B.M. TYPE HYM. 13.135/ NHMUK 014420309 ( NHMUK ); 1♀ : N. China / principalis Smith [ OUMUK ]. Remarks Smith (1874) described Chrysis principalis based on an unknown number of specimens, presumably syntypes (′This species has the thorax sometimes green, with only a faint blue transverse line on the prothorax... ̍ from Smith 1874 , p. 461). Kimsey and Bohart ([1990] 1991) considered a female specimen deposited at OUMUK as holotype . This specimen bears the handwritten labels ′N China ̍ and ′ principalis Smith ̍ without indication of the type status ( Figure 18B ) and can be considered a type. Another identical specimen, but labelled as type by Smith, from N China is deposited at NHMUK ( Figure 18A, C ). I consider both specimens to be syntypes ; being conspecific, no action is required to designate the lectotype in this article. Chrysis principalis is currently considered a common and widespread species in the East Palearctic and Oriental region ( Kimsey and Bohart [1990] 1991; Rosa et al . 2021a ).