Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907

Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Elsheikh, Tarek Y. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2018, The family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the South of Saudi Arabia, with the first report of the genus Micrapion and description of Leucospis arabica sp. nov., Journal of Natural History 52 (31 - 32), pp. 2071-2096 : 2076-2079

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2018.1510557

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40BEF37F-0D92-4AEF-9990-30C1CFC3A7A7

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C1D829-080E-8603-84E7-232FFCA0FF36

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907
status

 

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907 View in CoL

( Figures 1 View Figure 1 and 2 View Figure 2 )

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907: 204 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀, South Africa: Cape Province.

Diagnosis

Varies in colour, generally black mixed with red/brown and patterned with pale yellow; with unusual variation of the hind femur ventral teeth (Bou Č ek 1974a). In the Saudi Arabian male, body generally black with red/brown on the following parts ( Figures 1 View Figure 1 (a,b) and 2(c)): scape beneath, lateral sides of pronotum and mesoscutum, most of T1 (leaving hind margin black), apical half of fore coxa and upper side of fore femur, hind coxa (except basal third black), base of hind femur extending to upper side, inner curved side of hind tibia; pale yellow distributed as follows: a transverse yellow strip visible in front of discal carina, but not continuing to lateral panel of pronotum, hind margin of mesoscutellum, hind femur externally, tarsi, carapace with three cross bands of which the upper and apical ones are short while the middle band is the longest; body with relatively long setae; compound eye densely setose ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (a)); pronotum with three distinct carinae, of which the discal carina narrowly laminate, translucent margin directed backwards, while preapical and marginal carinae sharply elevated and directed backwards ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (b)); postscutellum more or less carinate, nearly straight at hind margin ( Figures 1 View Figure 1 (b) and 2(b)); hind coxa densely punctured, without smooth streak, with dorsal side narrow, turns posteriorly into a thin ridge ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (c)); hind femur with basal tooth not longer and more robust than following tooth, shorter than two middle sharp cylindrical teeth ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (c)), teeth becoming closer and very short towards apex. In female, ovipositor not reaching base of GT5 (Bou Č ek 1974a).

Material examined: Saudi Arabia

1 ♂, Abha , Raydah (18.1947°N, 42.3947°E, alt. 1851 m), sweep net, 22 April 2017, leg GoogleMaps . Ahmed M GoogleMaps . Soliman [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Abha, Raydah (18.1958°N, 42.3891°E, alt. 1614 m), sweep net, 18 October 2017, leg GoogleMaps . Athar M GoogleMaps . Gul [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Abha, Raydah (18.1958°N, 42.3891°E, alt. 1614 m), sweep net, 18 October 2017, leg GoogleMaps . Athar M GoogleMaps . Gul [ EFC] .

Distribution

Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eretria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South

Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( Cameron 1907; Bou Č ek 1974a; Noyes 2016); Saudi Arabia (new record).

Host records

Serapista denticulata (Smith) ( Hymenoptera : Megachilidae ) (Bou Č ek 1974a), Megachile spinarum Cockerell ) ( Hymenoptera : Megachilidae ) ( Gess 1981).

EFC

Escola de Florestas

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Leucospidae

Genus

Leucospis

Loc

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907

Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Elsheikh, Tarek Y. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M. 2018
2018
Loc

Leucospis africana

Cameron P 1907: 204
1907
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