Loboscelidia maai (Lin)

Kimsey, Lynn S., 2012, Review of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae), ZooKeys 213, pp. 1-40 : 17

Loboscelidia maai (Lin)

Scelidoloba maai Lin 1964: 238. Holotype female (not male); Taiwan: Paomingszu, 2 km s Keelung City (NMNS).

Loboscelidia artigena Lin 1964: 243. Holotype male; Taiwan: Paomingzu, 2 km s Keelung City (NMNS). Possible synonymy with Loboscelidia maai suggested by Day (1979). New synonymy herein.

Loboscelidia latigena Lin 1964: 241. Holotype male; Taiwan: Tsaoshan, 20 km nw Taipei city (NMNS). Synonymized by Kimsey and Bohart 1991.

Material studied.

None.

Diagnosis.

This is one of four species, including Loboscelidia brunnea , Loboscelidia maculipennis and Loboscelidia nitidula , with the cervical expansion of the vertex flat in profile. Loboscelidia maai males can be distinguished from these species by having the scape less than 2.5 × as long as broad, the presence of a scrobal sulcus, and the tibial flanges wider than the tubular part of the respective tibiae.