Chrysis frivaldszkyi subsp. frivaldszkyi Mocsary 1882

Chrysis frivaldszkyi frivaldszkyi Mocsáry, 1882 Chrysis frivaldszkyi Mocsáry, 1882:52 [descr. in Hungarian], 84 [descr. in Latin]. Lectotype ♂ designated by Móczár, 1965:171; Hungary (Budapest) (succincta group). Chrysis frivaldszkyi: Samin et al., 2014:122 (Khorasan, Semnan); Rosa, 2020:466 (Mazandaran). Distribution. Iran (Fars, Khorasan, Semnan, and Mazandaran). Remarks. Strumia & Fallahzadeh (2015) listed Chrysis succincta Linnaeus for Iran; neverthess, the identification is based on females only. It is known (e.g. Linsenmaier, 1959a, Rosa & Makris, 2023) that females of Chrysis succincta, C. tristicula and C. frivaldszkyi are impossible to be identified based on external morphological features. Since C. succincta is currently known with certainty only for the northern part of Central Europe, Scandinavia and part of Russia, the occurrence in Iran is doubtful. On the other hand, several similar species are found in Iran, in particular Chrysis frivaldszkyi seems to be very common and we suppose that Strumia & Fallahzadeh's specimens belong to this species. Strumia & Fallahzadeh (2015) postulated that these females could belong to C. prosuccincta. We exclude C. succincta from the checklist until male specimens of Chrysis succincta are found.