Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) Author Paukkunen, Juho juho.paukkunen@helsinki.fi Author Rosa, Paolo rosa@chrysis.net Author Soon, Villu villu.soon@ut.ee Author Johansson, Niklas chrysis32@yahoo.se Author Ødegaard, Frode juho.paukkunen@helsinki.fi text Zootaxa 2014 2014-09-19 3864 1 1 67 journal article 4236 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1 be91818f-5889-4e51-82b9-ab9b2a5e3445 1175-5326 4930433 63885F86-D448-4CF0-BB19-3664E34BD78B 66. Chrysis zetterstedti Dahlbom, 1845 ? Chrysis sexdentata Dahlbom, 1831: 30 , nom. praeocc., nec Christ, 1791 . Holotype ♀ ; Sweden : Vestrogothia, Kinnaskog [= Västergötland, Kinnaskog] (lost?). Zetterstedt 1840: 434 . Chrysis Zetterstedti Dahlbom 1845: 11 . Lectotype ♂ (here designated); Sweden , Laxbro (ZMUL) (examined). Dahlbom 1854: 305, Kawall 1864: 303 . Chrysis fasciata [part.]: Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 92 , Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 410 , Soon 2004: 21 , 46, Cederberg et al. 2010: 353, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 148 , Johansson 2012b , Dyntaxa 2013 . Chrysis zetterstedti : Erlandsson 1971: 90 , Hedström 1987: 156 . Chrysis fasciata fasciata [nec Olivier, 1790]: Rosa & Soon 2012 . Chrysis fasciata zetterstedti : Rosa & Soon 2012 . Distribution. Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Sweden .—Transpalearctic: from North Europe to Siberia and possibly China and Korea ( Linsenmaier 1959 ). Remarks. The species is known from Sweden and the Baltic countries. It is rare in all countries, and it has been classified as vulnerable in Sweden ( Cederberg et al. 2010 ). Records from Norway are uncertain. Dahlbom (1845) described the species on the basis of specimens collected from Norway and Sweden . According to Dahlbom (1845 , 1854 ) the Norwegian syntype specimen was collected from Christiania (= Oslo ) in July 1844 by N. Moe. However, the labels of Moe have proven to be unreliable, and much of his material include a mix of Norwegian and foreign specimens ( Munster 1923: 267–268 , Ødegaard & Ligaard 2000: 13 ). Therefore the origin of the Norwegian syntype specimen is uncertain, as are all published records from Norway based on Dahlbom’s publications ( Mocsáry 1889: 541 , Siebke 1880: 75 , Strand 1898: 97 , Frey 1915: 43 , Trautmann 1927: 182 , 1930: 508 (as C. fasciata ), Balthasar 1954: 237 (as C. fasciata ), Haupt 1957: 96 (as C. fasciata ), Rosa & Soon 2012 (as C. fasciata zetterstedti )). The species was reported from central Finland ( Sa : Juva) on the basis of an uncertain record by Forsius (1925: 183 , as Hexachrysis zetterstedti ) and later also Rosa & Soon (2012) listed the species from the country. However, as pointed out by Vikberg (1986a: 62) , the record is unreliable and the species should not be included in the Finnish fauna. Linsenmaier (1959) classified zetterstedti as a subspecies of C. fasciata , and reported it from Fennoscandia, Russia and Siberia, while the nominotypical form was stated to occur in central and southern Europe and North Africa. A third subspecies (or form), daphne Smith, 1874, is known from Japan and the Far East. Unpublished molecular studies suggest that zetterstedti and daphne together probably represent a different species in relation to fasciata . Also morphologically they have differences which support their separation. Therefore we have considered zetterstedti as a distinct species. Rosa & Soon (2012) reported C. fasciata erroneously from the Baltic countries as C. fasciata fasciata . The closest records of C. fasciata are from Poland . From Dahlbom’s (1845: 11) description of C. zetterstedti (“ Chrysis Zetterstedti nob. ♂ ♀ . Svecia nob.; Norrveg. N. Moë ”) it can be interpreted that there were at least two Swedish specimens ( one male and one female ) and one Norwegian specimen (collected by N. Moe ) upon which the description was based. In Dahlbom’s collection in Lund ( ZMUL ) there are two male specimens under the name C. zetterstedti , which are probable syntypes . One specimen bears the labels “ Laxbro 7.5.40. ”, “ Chr. Zetterstedti ” [Dahlbom's handwriting], and an additional red lable “ Typ ” was added during the mid 20th century by a former curator ( Fig. 9 ). The second specimen bears a label with “ Moe 44 ” and it also has a square red label. As noted earlier, it is uncertain whether this specimen was originally collected from Norway . Both specimens fit with the current interpretation of the species, and therefore we here designate the Swedish specimen from Laxbro as the lectotype of C. zetterstedti .