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Chrysis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Chrysididae

Taxonomy

Chrysis was named by Linnaeus (1761). It is extant. It is the type genus of Chrysidini, Chrysidinae, Chrysidides.

It was assigned to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Chrysidides by Latreille (1802); to Chrysididae by Carpenter (1992); and to Chrysidini by Pauli et al. (2019).

Species

C. amoena, C. miocenica, C. rohweri, C. viridicyanea

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1761	Chrysis Linnaeus p. 414
1764	Chrysis Müller p. 72
1766	Chrysis Schaeffer
1767	Chrysis Linnaeus p. 947
1771	Chrysis Forster p. 88
1775	Chrysis Fabricius p. 357
1776	Chrysis Müller p. 162
1796	Chrysis Latreille p. 126
1798	Chrysis Fabricius p. 257
1802	Chrysis Latreille p. 317
1992	Chrysis Carpenter
2019	Chrysis Pauli et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Chrysidoidea
family	Chrysididae	()
subfamily	Chrysidinae
tribe	Chrysidini
genus	Chrysis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Chrysis Linnaeus 1761

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†Chrysis amoena Förster 1891

†Chrysis miocenica Rohwer 1909

†Chrysis rohweri Cockerell 1907

†Chrysis viridicyanea Giebel 1862

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Holocene or 37.00000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	C. miocenica, C. rohweri (106381)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	France	C. amoena (121473)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Tanzania	C. viridicyanea (129861)