Loboscelidia asiana Kimsey, 1988

Hisasue, Yu, Pham, Thai-Hong & Mita, Toshiharu, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae: Loboscelidiinae) from Vietnam, European Journal of Taxonomy 887 (1), pp. 1-68 : 6

Loboscelidia asiana Kimsey, 1988

Loboscelidia asiana Kimsey, 1988: 68 .

Holotype ♂; Viet Nam: Dalat (BPBM).

Remarks

Loboscelidia asiana resembles L. barbata sp. nov. and L. sisik Kimsey, 2012 in having the following characteristics: scale-like setae on the lower gena and a dark brown body color. However, it can be distinguished by the following characteristics: frontal projection is triangular (rectangular in L. barbata sp. nov.); scape striated (smooth in L. sisik ) and more than 3.5 times as long as wide (less than 3.0 times as long as wide in L. sisik ); scrobal sulcus absent (present in the other two species); M vein curved (nearly straight in other two species); and Rs 1.5 times as long as R (more than twice as long as the R in other two species).

Distribution

Vietnam (Southern Vietnam) ( Fig. 26 ).

Figures

Fig. 26. Distribution map of Loboscelidia spp. in Vietnam. L. asiana Kimsey, 1988 (read circle). L. bachmaensis sp. nov. (dark blue circle). L. barbata sp. nov. (yellow circles). L. cilia sp. nov. (green circle). L. convexa sp. nov. (pink circle). L. cucphuongensis sp. nov. (gray circles).