Leucospis ignota Walker, 1862

Lima, Alessandro Rodrigues & Dias, Priscila Guimarães, 2018, 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, Zootaxa 4441 (1), pp. 1-45 : 19-21

Leucospis ignota Walker, 1862

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Leucospis ignota Walker, 1862: 22 . Lectotype ♂: Colombia (BMNH); Bouček 1974a: 99 –100, figs 115–117; De Santis 1980: 273 (catalog); Grissell & Cameron 2002: 277, fig. 11 (compared L. pinna ); Noyes 2017 (online catalog).

Leucospis tolteca Cresson, 1872: 34 . Lectotype ♀: Mexico (ANS, Philadelphia); Schletterer 1890: 171, 173, 263; Bouček 1974a: 99. (syn. L. ignota ); Noyes 2017 (online catalog).

Leucospis cupreo-viridis Westwood, 1874: 135, pl. 25, fig. 5. Lectotype ♀: Colombia: Santa Martha (UM, Oxford); Schletterer 1890: 261; Bouček 1974a: 99. (syn. L. ignota ); Noyes 2017 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Occipital carina complete; POL about 1.4× OOL; inner margin of eyes slightly emarginate; clypeus apically bilobate, with a conspicuous median tooth; dorsellum carinate and glabrous; propodeum densely pilose, median carina present, plicae present; hind coxa punctate in depression, without translucent lobe dorso-laterally; hind femur broad, with teeth distinctly less than twice as long as broad; fore wing subhyaline, with apical fifth infuscate and apical process of stigmal vein as long as uncus; ovipositor not reaching base of tergite V; in male, tergite I broader than long but only about 0.6× as broad as gaster posteriorly.

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais), Colombia, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela.

Comments. Despite its distribution from Mexico to Argentina, this is only the second record of this species from Brazil, where it was previously reported from the state of Bahia ( Figs 25 , 26 ).

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. (1♀) Brazil, Minas Gerais, Nova Porteirinha , 1ª CIG, CODEVASF, 15°48'55.1"S; 43°16'26.8"W, 6‒13.ix.2013, N. G. Fonseca leg. Malaise trap [ UFMG ‒IHY‒1611610].

Figures

FIGURE 13. Leucospis ignota ♀ A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Habitus, dorsal view. C. Forewing. D. Forewing, stigma region in detail. E. Hind wing. F. Head, frontal view. G. Mesossoma, dorsal view. H. Scutellum, dorsellum and propodeum, posterodorsal view. I. Hind leg, lateral view. J. Posterior region of metasoma, lateral view. Scale bar = 1 mm. UFMG–IHY–1611610

FIGURE 25. Geographic records of Leucospis in Brazil, based on literature.

FIGURE 26. New geographic records of Leucospis in Brazil A. Detail of the state of Minas Gerais. B. New records in Brazil.