Leucospis enderleini Ashmead, 1904

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 : 37-40

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Leucospis enderleini Ashmead, 1904 View in CoL

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Leucospis enderleini Ashmead 1904: 405 View in CoL , pl. 31, fig. 1. Holotype ♀: Brazil: Santarém (USNM); Burks 1961: 540 (compared L. xylocopae View in CoL ); Bouček, 1974a: 90 –91, figs 103, 104 (description of male); De Santis 1980: 273 (catalog); Arias-Penna 2008: 165 (Colombia registre); Noyes 2017 ( online catalog).

Leucospis metallica Weld 1922: 13 View in CoL –14, figs 2a,b. Holotype ♀: Brazil: São Paulo (USNM); Burks 1961: 541 (syn. L. enderleini View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Occipital carina complete; POL about 1.6‒1.8× OOL; inner margin of the eye shallowly emarginate; clypeus apically bilobate, without median tooth; pronotum without premarginal carina; dorsellum bare, semicircular, margin carinate; propodeum about 2‒2.5× longer than dorsellum at middle; propodeum pilose, median carina present, keel-like, plicae present; hind coxa punctate in depression; hind tibia with outer spur smaller than inner spur; apical process of stigmal vein very long, about 2.7× as long as uncus; in female, tergite I without ovipositor furrow, ovipositor not reaching anterior third of tergite V. Male gaster, in lateral view, with dorsal margin of tergite VI contiguous with tergite V.

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil ( Pará, Pernambuco, Bahia, São Paulo), Colombia.

Comments. This is only the second species recorded from Bahia, the largest state in the northeastern region. Together with L. ignota , these are the only two Leucospis species recorded from the entire region.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. ( 1♂) Brazil, Bahia, Rio de Contas, Brumadinho , 13°30'29.0"S, 41°53'36.2"W, 1145m, Malaise, 14‒20.i.2016, L.N.Perillo leg. [ UFMG ‒IHY‒1706263]. GoogleMaps