Leptacis laodice ( Walker, 1835 )

Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28), pp. 1651-1703 : 1664

Leptacis laodice ( Walker, 1835)

= Leptacis buchi Buhl, 1997 syn. nov.

England: Hampshire, New Forest, Holland’s Wood , 1 female, 25 May 1954, Clark, J.A. and Clark, D.J. ( BMNH) ; Kent, Blean Woods National Nature Reserve , 1 female, 5 June 1982, Brown, R.G. ( BMNH) ; Wiltshire, Corsham , 1 female, 28 June 1975, Noyes, J.S. ( BMNH) .

Recorded from near London by Walker (1835), from Ireland by O’Connor et al. (2004), and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009). The scutellar spine of this species is in fact semitransparent brownish towards tip, not “massive” as stated by Vlug (1985).