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 gujaratica Nurse, 1903a ( Figs 38 A–38D, 39A–39D) Chrysis gujaratica Nurse, 1903a: 11 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Bohart in Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 416 ; India : Gujarat : Deesa (NHMUK). Bingham 1903: 437 (key), 456 (descr., Northern Gujarat : Deesa; Delhi ), pl. I (fig. 3); Linsenmaier 1959: 239 (descr., India ); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 416 (cat., India : Deesa, pallidicornis group); Rosa et al. 2020a: 48 (cat., typ., fig. 18). Chrysis nursei Bingham, 1903: 463 . Holotype ♂ ; India : Gujarat : Deesa (437 (key), 463–464 (descr.), 463 (fig. 156)) (NHMUK) (examined), syn. nov. Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 444 (cat., India : Deesa, pallidicornis group). Chrysis ( Tetrachrysis ) gujaratica : Bischoff 1913: 52 (cat., India ). Chrysis ( Hexachrysis ) nursei : Bischoff 1913: 66 (cat., India ). Chrysis ( Chrysis ) gujaratica : Linsenmaier 1968: 92 (descr., North-West India , pallidicornis group). Material examined. 1 ♀ , Syntype , Deesa, 3.01, ♀ , Type, Col. C.G. Nurse Collection 1920-72, Chrysis gujaratica ( Nurse), B.M. Type Hym. 13.89, BMNH(E) #970899 ( NHMUK ); 1 ♂ , Holotype , Deesa , 12.01, ♂ , Chrysis nursei ♂ Bing. Type, B.M . Type Hym. 13.99, BMNH(E) #970898 ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , Deesa 3.01, Baluchistan Deesa C.G. Nurse 1909, Chrysis gujaratica Nurse (NHMW) ; 1 ♂ , Deesa 3.01, Baluchistan Deesa C.G. Nurse 1909, Chrysis gujaratica Nurse (NHMW) ; 2 ♂ , Gujarat , Deesa , iii.1901 , leg. C.G. Nurse ( MNLU ). FIGURE 37. Chrysis excellens Linsenmaier, 1997 , holotype female. A. Habitus, dorsal view. C. Head, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, dorsal view. Paratype male from Pakistan. B. Habitus, dorsal view. D. Head, dorsal view. F. genital capsule, dorsal view. G. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view. H. Metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm. FIGURE 38. Chrysis gujaratica Nurse, 1903 , lectotype, female. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, frontal view. D. Metasoma, posterior view. Scale bars 1.0 mm. (© The Trustees of the NHMUK) Distribution: India ( Delhi ; Gujarat ). Pakistan ( Nurse 1903b ). Remarks. Chrysis nursei Bingham ( Fig. 39 ) is the dimorphic ♂ of Ch. gujaratica Nurse ( Fig. 38 ), both collected in numbers at Quetta by Nurse during the years 1901–1903, and for this reason we here propose the new synonymy: Chrysis nursei Bingham, 1903 , syn. nov. of Ch. gujaratica Nurse, 1903b .