Alysia lucicola Haliday, 1838

Verheyde, Fons, Jacobs, JEffrEY, Dekoninck, WOUTEr, Achterberg, Kees Van, Rond, JErOEn, Blanck, Tim De, Schoonvaere, KarEL, Nieuwenhuijsen, Hans, Ketelaere, Augustijn De, Minnebo, BarT & Ferrer-Suay, Mar, 2023, Remarks on Hymenoptera on urban green roofs in Belgium, Belgian Journal of Entomology 140, pp. 1-37 : 20-21

Alysia lucicola Haliday, 1838 - Belg. sp. nov.

BELGIUM: • 1 ♀; N51.197° E4.463°; v/2021; J. Jacobs leg.; coll. KVA; pan trap (yellow); K. van Achterberg det.

Remarks:

This braconid wasp is a member of the Subfamily Alysiinae , which are associated with Diptera and have exodont mandibles. Identification is difficult. One of the more recent keys to get to genera within the Subfamily is ZHU et al., 2017. A. lucicola has been well described by FISCHER 1965. The species is easy to recognize within the genus by its very elongate first tergite.