Leucospis genalis Bouček, 1974

Leucospis genalis Bouček, 1974 View in CoL

( Figs 11 View FIGURE 11 , 12 View FIGURE 12 )

Leucospis genalis Bouček, 1974a: 94 View in CoL –96; figs 111, 112. Holotype ♀: Paraguay: Villarica (MCZ, Cambridge); Bouček 1974b: 430 –432; fig. 1.1 (compared L. leptomera View in CoL ); Martins & Antonini 1994: 556, 558 (hosts); Martins et al. 1996: 13 –14 (hosts); Grissell & Cameron 2002: 277 (compared L. pinna View in CoL ); Noyes 2017 ( online catalog).

Diagnosis. Occipital carina conspicuous only behind ocellar triangle; POL about 0.9‒1.0× OOL; inner margin of eyes not emarginate; clypeus apically bilobate, with a conspicuous median tooth; mandible with lower tooth long, separated from upper edge by a broad semicircular gap; pronotum without premarginal carina; dorsellum subtriangular, bare, coarsely alveolate, its margin with raised sublamellate carina; propodeum densely pilose, median carina present, plicae present; hind coxal depression with coarse punctation dorsally and a broad impunctate streak extending nearly to base, without translucent lobe dorso-laterally; hind femur unusually slender, more than twice as long as broad excluding teeth; fore wing light brown, apical third infuscate, stigma clavate, apical process of stigmal vein about as long as uncus; tergite I without ovipositor sulcus; gaster posteriorly with golden pubescence; ovipositor reaching base of tergite IV; in female, tergite VI without spiniform projection at posterior margin; in male, tergite II dorsally not only visible, but very heavily sculptured.

Distribution. Brazil ( Minas Gerais, São Paulo), Paraguay.

Comments. Leucospis genalis was previously recorded from Paraguay and Brazil (state of São Paulo) ( Figs 25 View FIGURE 25 , 26 View FIGURE 26 ). This is the first record from the state of Minas Gerais, which represents the northern most record of this species.

Biology. Previously recorded as a parasitoid of the solitary bees Diadasina distincta (Holmberg, 1903) ( Martins & Antonini 1994) and Ptilothrix plumata Smith, 1853 ( Martins et al. 1996).

Material examined. ( 7♀, 4♂) Brazil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Campus da UFMG, Estação Ecológica da UFMG, J .F.Macedo leg. 5.iv.1993, [1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1305657], 6.ix.1993 [1♀ UFMG‒IHY‒1701143], 27.vii.1993 [1♀ UFMG–IHY–1701142]; H.R.Pimenta leg., 26.viii.1991 [ 1♂ UFMG ‒IHY‒1305658], 9.iv.1992 [ 1♀ UFMG ‒IHY‒1305659] 18.iv.1991 [ 1♀ UFMG ‒IHY‒1305660], 6.iii.1992 [ 1♀ UFMG ‒IHY‒1305661], 20.ii.1992 [ 1♂ UFMG –IHY–1305662], 14.v.1991 [ 1♂ UFMG –IHY–1305663]; São Paulo, Rio Claro, Horto Florestal Navarro de Andrade , em vôo, 18.iv.1988 , R.P.Martins leg. [ 1♀ UFMG –IHY–1305759]; São Paulo, Jundiahy, 1899, Schrottky [ Paratype ♂ MfN] .