Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907

Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Usman, Syeda Uzma, Khan, Farmanur Rahman, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Dawah, Hassan A., Rizvi, Parvez Qamar & Anwar, Prince Tarique, 2024, An overview of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species, ZooKeys 1189, pp. 185-202 : 185

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1189.113635

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D05BBE1-922C-4E76-8256-5B02AF30D857

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/18BC19D1-807B-505E-A605-96F53BAABB12

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scientific name

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907
status

 

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907 View in CoL

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Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907: 204. Lectotype, female (BMNH), designated by Bouček 1974: 104, South Africa (Cape Province), examined (illustrations only).

Remarks.

Bouček (1974) recorded L. africana from several African countries and provided a brief diagnosis of females and described the males. He further recorded its host for the first time. Gadallah at al. (2018) recorded males from Saudi Arabia and provided a detailed diagnosis of males and a key identify it from other species of Saudi Arabia. Here, we figure the lectotype for the first time.

Host.

Serapista denticulata (Smith) ( Hymenoptera , Megachilidae ) ( Bouček 1974); Megachile spinarum Cockerell ( Hymenoptera , Megachilidae ) ( Gess 1981).

Distribution.

Afrotropical: 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; Bouček 1974; Noyes 2019); Saudi Arabia (Gadallah at al. 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Leucospidae

Genus

Leucospis

Loc

Leucospis africana Cameron, 1907

Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Usman, Syeda Uzma, Khan, Farmanur Rahman, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Dawah, Hassan A., Rizvi, Parvez Qamar & Anwar, Prince Tarique 2024
2024
Loc

Leucospis africana

Cameron 1907
1907