Bouček, 1974a : 94
Bouček 1974b : 430
L. leptomera
Martins & Antonini 1994 : 556
Martins et al. 1996 : 13
Grissell & Cameron 2002 : 277
L. pinna
The New World species of Leucospis Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Leucospidae): an update of Bouček’s revision with description of two new species from Brazil
Lima, Alessandro Rodrigues
Dias, Priscila Guimarães
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-26
4441
1
1
45
6Q63C
Boucek, 1974
Boucek
1974
[151,539,1661,1687]
Insecta
Leucospidae
Leucospis
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
16
17
Arthropoda
species
genalis
Leucospis genalis Bouček, 1974a: 94–96; figs 111, 112. Holotype ♀: Paraguay: Villarica (MCZ, Cambridge); Bouček 1974b: 430–432; fig. 1.1 (compared L. leptomera); Martins & Antonini 1994: 556, 558 (hosts); Martins et al.1996: 13–14 (hosts); Grissell & Cameron 2002: 277(compared L. pinna); Noyes 2017( onlinecatalog).
Diagnosis.Occipital carina conspicuous only behind ocellar triangle; POL about 0.9‒1.0× OOL; inner margin of eyes not emarginate; clypeus apically bilobate, with a conspicuous median tooth; mandible with lower tooth long, separated from upper edge by a broad semicircular gap; pronotum without premarginal carina; dorsellum subtriangular, bare, coarsely alveolate, its margin with raised sublamellate carina; propodeum densely pilose, median carina present, plicae present; hind coxal depression with coarse punctation dorsally and a broad impunctate streak extending nearly to base, without translucent lobe dorso-laterally; hind femur unusually slender, more than twice as long as broad excluding teeth; fore wing light brown, apical third infuscate, stigma clavate, apical process of stigmal vein about as long as uncus; tergite I without ovipositor sulcus; gaster posteriorly with golden pubescence; ovipositor reaching base of tergite IV; in female, tergite VI without spiniform projection at posterior margin; in male, tergite II dorsally not only visible, but very heavily sculptured.
Distribution. Brazil( Minas Gerais, São Paulo), Paraguay.
Comments. Leucospis genaliswas previously recorded from Paraguayand Brazil(state of São Paulo) ( Figs 25, 26). This is the first record from the state of Minas Gerais, which represents the northern most record of this species.
Biology.Previously recorded as a parasitoid of the solitary bees Diadasina distincta(Holmberg, 1903)( Martins & Antonini 1994) and Ptilothrix plumataSmith, 1853( Martins et al.1996).
Materialexamined.( 7♀, 4♂) Brazil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Campusda UFMG, Estação Ecológicada UFMG, J.F.Macedo leg. 5.iv.1993, [1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1305657], 6.ix.1993[1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1701143], 27.vii.1993[1♀ UFMG–IHY–1701142]; H.R.Pimenta leg., 26.viii.1991[ 1♂ UFMG‒IHY‒1305658], 9.iv.1992[ 1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1305659] 18.iv.1991[ 1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1305660], 6.iii.1992[ 1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1305661], 20.ii.1992[ 1♂ UFMG–IHY–1305662], 14.v.1991[ 1♂ UFMG–IHY–1305663]; São Paulo, Rio Claro, Horto Florestal Navarro de Andrade, em vôo, 18.iv.1988, R.P.Martins leg. [ 1♀ UFMG–IHY–1305759]; São Paulo, Jundiahy, 1899, Schrottky[ Paratype ♂ MfN].
1851456522
UFMG
Material
Brazil
Belo Horizonte
Estacao Ecologica
Campus
17
18
11
7
4
Minas Gerais
1851456490
1988-04-18
1992-04-09
1988-04-18
UFMG
H. R. Pimenta
Brazil
18
19
Horto Florestal Navarro de Andrade
Rio Claro
17
18
6
3
3
Sao Paulo
1851456519
UFMG, MfN
R. P. Martins
Brazil
Schrottky
Jundiahy
18
19
2
1
1
Sao Paulo
paratype