Loboscelidia nigricornis
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Loboscelidia
Name
Loboscelidia nigricornis Fouts – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Loboscelidia nigricornis Fouts 1925[1]: 517. Holotype male; Philippines: Mindanao, Surigao (USNM).
Material studied
Philippines: Mindanao I., Agusan, Esperanza Bagugan, Matibog Creek (1 male, BPBM); 6 specimens were seen including the otype series.
Diagnosis
This is one of several species with a flat medial vein and rectangular frontal projection. In males, the absence of cu-a and the scape more than 3.3× as long as broad are characteristics Loboscelidia nigricornis shares with Loboscelidia halimunensis. Loboscelidia defecta can be distinguished from Loboscelidia halimunensis by Rs less than twice as long as broad (longer in Loboscelidia halimunensis) and longer pronotum (1.2× as long as broad, versus as long as broad or broader in Loboscelidia halimunensis).
Taxon Treatment
- Kimsey, L; 2012: Review of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae) ZooKeys, 213: 1-40. doi
Other References
- ↑ Fouts R (1925) Descriptions of three new Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. The Philippine Journal of Science 26: 515-519.