Loboscelidia kafae Kimsey, 2012

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 : 33-34

Loboscelidia kafae Kimsey, 2012

Loboscelidia kafae Kimsey, 2012: 20 .

Holotype ♂; Thailand: Chiang Mai Province, Doi Phahompok NP Mae Fang Hot spring ( QSBG).

Remarks

Loboscelidia kafae resembles L. pasohana and L. laminata in having the following characteristics: F1 less than twice as long as wide and cu-a 0.50 times as long as R. However, L. kafae can be distinguished by the following characteristics: weakly convex cervical expansion (strongly convex in L. pasohana ); F2 twice as long as wide (1.5 times as long as wide in L. pasohana ); F11 that 4.0 times as long as wide (3.5 times as long as wide in other two species); F2 twice as long as wide (less than twice as long as wide in L. laminata ); fore- and midtibial flanges as wide as the tubular part; and a hindtibial flange twice as wide as the tubular part (less than twice as wide as the tubular part in other two species) ( Kimsey 2012).

Distribution

Laos; Malaysia; Thailand; Vietnam (Northern Vietnam) ( Kimsey 2012).