Leucospis gigas Fabricius, 1793 Figs 84-85, 86-87

Leucospis gigas Fabricius, 1793: 245; Nikols’kaya 1960: 15; Bouček 1974a: 149; Bouček and Narendran 1981: 5; Narendran 1986: 44; Madl 1989: 200; Madl 1990: 83; 2015: 665; Baur and Amiet 2000: 367; Yildirim et al. 2002: 1187; Lotfalizadeh and Fakhrzadeh 2012: 53; Madl 2014: 796; Madl and Schwarz 2014: 1573.

Type material.

Lectotype, ♀ (ZMUC), “FRANCE”, " Leucospis gigas Fabricius", "Z. Bouček det., 1972", ZMUC00242019, designated by Bouček (1974a).

Diagnosis .

Body mainly black (Figs 84, 85), with exception of antenna scape yellow, frontovertex with two yellow spots (Fig. 86), pronotum yellow with black transverse band medially (Fig. 86), mesoscutum with a pair of elongate yellow patches laterally, and a pair of yellow spots submedially (Fig. 85), mesoscutellum with yellow U-shaped mark posteriorly, metapleuron yellow (Fig. 85), wings brownish, hind coxa yellow baso-dorsally (Fig. 84), hind femur yellow with quadrate black mark ventrally (Figs 84, 87), T1 with a pair of broad quadrangular yellow marks laterad of ovipositorial furrow (Figs 84, 85); clypeus strongly produced ventrally; flagellum slender, F2-F4 distinct longer than broad; dorsellum bidentate posteriorly; pronotum with distinct premarginal carina; hind femur with seven teeth ventrally, basal tooth short, second and third teeth acute apically, fourth teeth rather obtuse apically (Fig. 87); T1 with ovipositorial furrow (Fig. 85); ovipositor sheath nearly reaching anterior margin of T1 (Figs 84, 85).

Male. Not available for this study.

Biology.

Parasitoids of Megachilidae and Vespidae ( Hymenoptera) (Bouček 1974a; Baur and Amiet 2000; Luo and Liu 2009; Madl and Schwarz 2014). Luo and Liu (2009) gave a detailed report on its life history and oviposition behaviour on its host Megachile desertorum . In China collected in June.

Distribution.

China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia) (Luo and Liu 2009). Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, India Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan (Bouček 1974a; Narendran 1986; Madl 1989, 1990, 2014; Baur and Amiet 2000; Yildirim et al. 2002; Madl and Klimsa 2013; Madl and Schwarz 2014).