Leucospis leucotelus Walker, 1852

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 : 33

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Leucospis leucotelus Walker, 1852 View in CoL

( Fig. 21 View FIGURE 21 )

Leucospis leucotelus Walker, 1852: 41 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀: Brazil: Pará (BMNH); Burks 1961: 540 (compared L. xylocopae View in CoL ); Bouček 1974a: 48, 50; De Santis 1980: 273 (catalog); Noyes 2017 ( online catalog).

Leucospis apicalis Cresson, 1872: 30 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀: Mexico (ANS, Philadelphia); Bouček 1974a: 48 (syn. L. leucotelus View in CoL ); Noyes 2017 ( online catalog).

Diagnosis. Occipital carina conspicuous only behind ocellar triangle; POL about 1.0‒1.3× OOL; inner margin of the eyes almost straight; dorsellum convex, its lateral margin not distinctly carinate; propodeum pilose, median carina present but not evident, plicae present but not evident; hind coxal depression punctate, dorso-laterally thin, sharp; hind femur very broad, 1.72‒1.84× as long as broad, teeth excluded; fore wing in proximal two-thirds blackish and apical third subhyaline, with apical process of stigmal vein very short, about 0.25× as long as uncus; in female, tergite I with median furrow smooth; tergite VI without spiniform projection at posterior margin; ovipositor reaching dorsellum.

Distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil ( Amazonas, Pará, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina).

Comments. This species is widely distributed throughout Brazil ( Figs 25 View FIGURE 25 , 26 View FIGURE 26 ). This is the first record from the state of Minas Gerais.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. ( 2♀) Brazil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, UFMG Pampulha, 28.x.1987 [ UFMG ‒IHY‒ 1504418]; Belo Horizonte, UFMG Pampulha, Estação Ecológica, 19°52'30"S, 43°58'20"W, 842m, malaise, 1‒ 8.x.1998, A.F. Kumagai leg. [ UFMG ‒IHY‒1504417].