Leucospis gigas Fabricius, 1793

Ye, Xin-hai, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Yue, Qi & Xu, Zai-fu, 2017, Review of the Chinese Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), ZooKeys 651, pp. 107-157 : 127-130

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).