Leptacis pinicola MacGown, 1979

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 188

Leptacis pinicola MacGown Figures 1-6

Leptacis pinicola MacGown, 1979: 24, 101 (original description. Keyed).

Leptacis piniella MacGown, syn. n., 1979: 24, 104 (original description. Keyed).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=11677

Material examined.

Holotype of L. pinicola , female: UNITED STATES: VA, Fairfax Co., Vienna , 20.XI.1941, J. C. Bridwell, USNMENT01059099 (deposited in USNM) . Holotype of L. piniella , female: UNITED STATES: CO, Jefferson Co., Evergreen , 30.VIII.1937, USNMENT01059210 (deposited in USNM) .

Comments.

The treatment of L. pinicola and L. piniella as different species is perplexing, given that they were described in the same publication. The key to species in McGown (1979) separated them on the basis of the scape "long and slim" versus "stouter, not noticeably long and slim". Our examination reveals that the shapes of the scape in these species are essentially identical (Figures 3 , 5 )

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. 1 Leptacis piniella, holotype female (USNMENT 01059210), head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 2 Leptacis pinicola, holotype female (USNMENT 01059099), head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 3 Leptacis piniella, holotype female (USNMENT 01059210), head, anterior view 4 Leptacis piniella, holotype female (USNMENT 01059210), head and mesosoma, dorsal view 5 Leptacis pinicola, holotype female (USNMENT 01059099), head, anterior view 6 Leptacis pinicola, holotype female (USNMENT 01059099), head and mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.