Chrysis rubroviolacea Mocsary 1913

CHRYSIS RUBROVIOLACEA MOCSÁRY, 1913 Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 427) synonymised C. rubroviolacea Mocsáry, 1913, described from South Africa, with C. jousseaumei, described from Djibouti. Chrysis jousseaumei is characterised by toothed mesopleuron (Fig. 7C), violet to purplish body colour, large punctures with polished interspaces covering the whole body (Fig. 7E). Chrysis rubroviolacea, as correctly given in the original description, has a simple, unmodified mesopleuron, without any evident tooth (Fig. 7D); in addition, the shape of the head is different (Fig. 7B), being clearly transverse (l/w = 0.7) (measure taken from the transverse frontal carina to clypeal margin) and the shortest distance between inner eye margin instead of triangular, and short (l/w = 0.8) as in C. rubroviolacea (Fig. 7A); the episternal sulcus is formed by larger foveae (Fig. 7D); the black spots on second sternum are narrower, almost half as wide as long. For these notable differences in diagnostic characters, we consider C. rubroviolacea Mocsáry, 1913 as a valid species.