Leucospis gigas
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Leucospidae
Genus: Leucospis
Name
Leucospis gigas Fabricius, 1793 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Leucospis gigas Fabricius, 1793: 245; Nikols’kaya 1960[1]: 15; Bouček 1974a[2]: 149; Bouček and Narendran 1981[3]: 5; Narendran 1986[4]: 44; Madl 1989[5]: 200; Madl 1990[6]: 83; 2015: 665; Baur and Amiet 2000[7]: 367; Yildirim et al. 2002[8]: 1187; Lotfalizadeh and Fakhrzadeh 2012[9]: 53; Madl 2014[10]: 796; Madl and Schwarz 2014[11]: 1573.
Type material
Lectotype, ♀ (ZMUC), “FRANCE”, “Leucospis gigas Fabricius”, “Z. Bouček det., 1972”, ZMUC00242019, designated by Bouček (1974a)[2].
Diagnosis
Body mainly black (Figs 84, 85), with exception of antenna scape yellow, frontovertex with two yellow spots (Fig. 86), pronotum yellow with black transverse band medially (Fig. 86), mesoscutum with a pair of elongate yellow patches laterally, and a pair of yellow spots submedially (Fig. 85), mesoscutellum with yellow U-shaped mark posteriorly, metapleuron yellow (Fig. 85), wings brownish, hind coxa yellow baso-dorsally (Fig. 84), hind femur yellow with quadrate black mark ventrally (Figs 84, 87), T1 with a pair of broad quadrangular yellow marks laterad of ovipositorial furrow (Figs 84, 85); clypeus strongly produced ventrally; flagellum slender, F2–F4 distinct longer than broad; dorsellum bidentate posteriorly; pronotum with distinct premarginal carina; hind femur with seven teeth ventrally, basal tooth short, second and third teeth acute apically, fourth teeth rather obtuse apically (Fig. 87); T1 with ovipositorial furrow (Fig. 85); ovipositor sheath nearly reaching anterior margin of T1 (Figs 84, 85).
Male. Not available for this study.
Biology
Parasitoids of Megachilidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera) (Bouček 1974a[2]; Baur and Amiet 2000[7]; Luo and Liu 2009[12]; Madl and Schwarz 2014[11]). Luo and Liu (2009)[12] gave a detailed report on its life history and oviposition behaviour on its host Megachile desertorum. In China collected in June.
Distribution
China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia) (Luo and Liu 2009[12]). Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, India Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan (Bouček 1974a[2]; Narendran 1986[4]; Madl 1989[5], 1990[6], 2014[10]; Baur and Amiet 2000[7]; Yildirim et al. 2002[8]; Madl and Klimsa 2013[13]; Madl and Schwarz 2014[11]).
Taxon Treatment
- Ye, X; van Achterberg, C; Yue, Q; Xu, Z; 2017: Review of the Chinese Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) ZooKeys, (651): 107-157. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Nikols’kaya M (1960) Chalcididae and Leucospidae in Central Asia (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSR 27: 220–247.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
- ↑ Bouček Z, Narendarn T (1981) The Leucospis species of India and adjacent countries (Hymenoptera: Leucospidae). Oriental Insects 15: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1981.10434466
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Narendran T (1986) Family Leucospidae. In: Subba R Hayat M (Eds) The Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of India and the adjacent countries Part II. A Catalogue of Chalcidoidea of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects 20: 43–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1986.10433717
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Madl M (1989) Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Leucospis-Arten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Österreichs (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Leucospidae). Entomofauna 10(12): 197–201.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Madl M (1990) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Leucospis-Arten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna Österreichs (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Leucospidae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 22(1): 81–87.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Baur H, Amiet F (2000) The Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Switzerland, with a key and data on the European species. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 107(2): 359–388. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80135
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Yildirim E, Calmasur O, Madl M (2002) Leucospidae of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Linzer biologische Beiträge 34(2): 1185–1189.
- ↑ Lotfalizadeh H, Fakhrzadeh N (2012) A short review of the family Leucospidae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) in Iran. Biharean Biologist 6(1): 51–54.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Madl M (2014) New records of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Kazakhstan. Linzer biologische Beiträge 46(1): 795–797.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Madl M, Schwarz M (2014) Notes on Palaearctic species of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with new records from North Africa and Middle East. Linzer biologische Beiträge 46(2): 1569–1580.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Luo J, Liu Q (2009) Life history and oviposition behavior of Leucospis gigas. Chinese Bulletin of Entomology 46(1): 77–81. [In Chinese]
- ↑ Madl M, Klimsa E (2013) An aberrant colour form of Leucospis gigas (Fabricius, 1793) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Leucospidae) from Turkey. Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 65: 122.
