The New World species of Leucospis Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Leucospidae): an update of Bouček’s revision with description of two new species from Brazil
Author
Lima, Alessandro Rodrigues
Author
Dias, Priscila Guimarães
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-26
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Leucospis versicolor
Bouček, 1974
(
Fig. 24
)
Leucospis versicolor
Bouček, 1974: 87
–89, fig. 97.
Holotype
♀
:
French Guiana
:
Kourou
(
MNHN
,
Paris
).
Diagnosis
. Occipital carina complete; POL about 1.4× OOL; inner margin of the eye shallowly emarginate; clypeus apically bilobate, with a weak median tooth; pronotum with premarginal carina indicated by bare line; dorsellum bare, margin sublaminate; propodeum 1.5× longer than dorsellum at middle; propodeum pilose, median carina present, keel-like, plicae present; wings infuscate along anterior margin; hind coxa on dorsal edge with abundant punctures, in depression with narrow smooth streak; apical process of stigmal vein very short, about 0.15× as long as uncus; in female, tergite I without punctures over basal two-thirds; tergite VI with spiniform projection at posterior margin, below spiracle level; ovipositor reaching base of tergite V.
Distribution.
Brazil
(
Amazonas
,
Minas Gerais
),
French Guiana
.
Comments
.
Leucospis versicolor
was previously recorded from
northern South America
(
French Guiana
and
Brazil
, state of
Amazonas
)
.
These new records from the state of
Minas Gerais
, in the Brazilian southeast, represent a considerable southern range extension for the species (
Figs 25
,
26
).
Biology.
Unknown.
Material examined.
(
2♀
)
Brazil
,
Minas Gerais
, Belo Horizonte,
UFMG
Pampulha, 1992 [
UFMG
‒IHY‒ 1504420]; Belo Horizonte,
UFMG
Pampulha, Estação Ecológica,
19°52'30"S
,
43°58'20"W
,
842m
, malaise,
25.x‒ 1.xi.2013
, A.F. Kumagai
leg.
[
UFMG
‒IHY‒1504419].