Lepidura olivacea Dasch, 1974

Araujo, Rodrigo O. & Vivallo, Felipe, 2018, Taxonomic revision of Lepidura Townes, 1971 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) with the description of three new species, new distribution records and a key to the all known species, Zootaxa 4514 (2), pp. 215-229 : 222

Lepidura olivacea Dasch, 1974

Lepidura olivacea Dasch, 1974 . 18, 23, 476 (Original description, keyed, comparative illustration of metasoma); Lanfranco, 1974. 203 (Listed); Lanfranco, 1980. 79 (Listed).

Diagnosis: Antenna brown. Body mostly greenish brown. Head light green, supra-antennal and ocellar areas brown; Mesosoma greenish brown, except on lateral lobe of mesoscutum, depression of pronotal lobe and stripe on dorsal half of mesopleuron, darker brown. Metasoma greenish brown, with petiole, T2 and anterior region of T3 dark brown. Dorsal surface of T3–T5 and metasomal segments 6–9 light brown, including gonoforceps (males) and hypopygium and ovipositor sheath (females). Propodeum without areola, costula absent ( Fig. 2 ). Vein 1mcu&(RS+M)b strongly angled. Ovipositor sheath comparatively wide.

Comments: The only difference between the male and female is the color of metasoma; in the male, dark brown on petiole and T2, and on T3–T9, yellowish green on ventral half while in the female it is light brown.

Type material: Holotype female ( USU, examined).

Type locality: CHILE: Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena: Río Tres Pasos .

Distribution ( Fig. 5 ): * ARGENTINA: Neuquén: San Martín de Los Andes. CHILE: Región de la Araucanía: Malleco (Termas Tolhuaca) ( Dasch, 1974). Región de Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo: Puerto Cisnes ( Dasch, 1974). Región de Bío-Bío: Las Cabras, Pichimahuel ( Dasch, 1974). Región de Los Lagos: Caremalpu, Ensenada, Pucatrihue, Río Carihueico, Río Gol Gol ( Dasch, 1974). Región de Los Ríos: Puerto Fuy ( Dasch, 1974). Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena: Río Tres Pasos ( Dasch, 1974; Lanfranco, 1974).

Material Examined: 1 female: Holotype, Río Tres Pasos , Magallanes, Chile, Dec. 11, 1960, T. Cekalovic ( USU). 1 female: RA Neuquen, S. Martin Andes, Pucará, Jan’ 70, Schajovskoy Coll ( FSCA).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Distribution records for Lepidura callaina Dash, 1974, L. mallecoensis Dash, 1974, L. nigricephala new species and L. olivacea Dash, 1974.

FIGURES 1–3. Propodeum in dorsal view. 1–2 Propodeum without areola: 1 Propodeum with subpentagonal area delimited by complete lateral longitudinal and posterior transverse carinae and incomplete anterior transverse and median longitudinal carinae, Lepidura abbreviata Dash, 1974; 2 Propodeum smooth, with reduced carinae, L. olivacea Dash, 1974; 3 Propodeum with areola delimited by the median longitudinal, anterior transverse and posterior transverse carinae, L. improcera Dash, 1974. Scale bars (mm): Figs 1–3 = 0.2.