Leucospidae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Leucospidae
Name
Walker, 1834 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Leucopsidae Walker, 1834: 13. Type genus: Leucopsis Duméril, 1823 (= Leucospis Fabricius, 1775).
- Leucospidae Walker: Haliday 1839: ii; Habu 1962[1]: 165; Bouček 1974a[2]: 9; Schmid-Egger 2010[3].
Diagnosis
Body usually black or brown, with yellow, orange, reddish brown or whitish markings; antenna 13-segmented, F1 petiolate, without anellus, and no multiporous plate sensillae; tegula elongate, at least two times as long as broad, reaching pronotum or nearly so; forewing often longitudinally folded at rest; hind femur markedly swollen with one or more teeth ventrally; hind tibia strongly curved; ovipositor generally exserted and curved upward over metasoma (Bouček 1974a[2]; Hanson 1995[4]; Noyes 2016[5]).
Biology
Ectoparasitoids of solitary aculeate Hymenoptera, especially Megachilidae and Anthophoridae (Burks 1961[6]; Habu 1962[1]; Bouček 1974a[2]; Cooperband et al. 1999[7]; Schmid-Egger 2010[3]).
Distribution
Cosmopolitan.
Valid species
139 species in four genera (Alexandre et al. 2013; Noyes 2016[5]).
Taxon Treatment
- Ye, X; van Achterberg, C; Yue, Q; Xu, Z; 2017: Review of the Chinese Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) ZooKeys, (651): 107-157. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Habu A (1962) II. Family Leucospidae. In: Okada Y Uchida T Kuroda N Yamashina Y (Eds) Fauna Japonica. Biogeographical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 165–177.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bouček Z (1974a) A revision of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the world. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, Supplement 23: 1–241.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schmid-Egger C (2010) Order Hymenoptera, family Leucospidae. In: van Harten A (Ed.) Arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates, Volume 3. Multiply Marketing Consultancy Services, Abu Dhabi, 319–324.
- ↑ Hanson P (1995) Chapter 11.10. Leucospidae. In: Hanson P Gauld I (Eds) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 342–344.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Noyes J (2016) Universal Chalcidoidea Database. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids [accessed 16.04.2016]
- ↑ Burks B (1961) A new Brazilian Leucospis parasitic on Xylocopa, with a brief review of the South American species of Leucospis (Hym., Leucospidae). Studia Entomologica 4: 537–541.
- ↑ Cooperband M, Wharton R, Frankie G, Vinson S (1999) New host and distribution records for Leucospis (Hymenopera: Leucospidae) associated primarily with nest of Centris (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) in the dry forests of Costa Rica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8(2): 154–164.
