Chrysis mirifica Balthasar 1953

Chrysis mirifica Balthasar, 1953 Chrysis mirifica Balthasar, 1953:264. Holotype ♂; Palestine: Wadi el Kelt (Prague) (exsecata group). Chrysis dawahi Strumia in Strumia & Dawah, 2012:174 (Saudi Arabia); Falahatpisheh et al., 2020:31 (Fars). Distribution. Iran (Fars). Palestine (Balthasar, 1953), Saudi Arabia (Strumia & Dawah, 2012), United Arab Emirates (Strumia, 2014). Remarks. Chrysis dawahi Strumia (listed by Falahatpisheh et al., 2020 for Iran) was synonymised with C. mirifica Balthasar by Rosa et al. (2020a). However, this action was unnecessary because in the original description of C. dawahi, the name and location of the collection housing the holotype were omitted, thereby not complying with Article 16.4.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999). Consequently, Chrysis dawahi is not correctly described and must be considered as unavailable and nomen nudum.