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Leucospis arabica Gadallah and Soliman

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Leucospidae; Genus: Leucospis)

Leucospis arabica Gadallah and Soliman, 2018. Holotype in King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Riyadh (KSMA). Type locality: Saudi Arabia, Jazan, Farasan Islands, Sajid (16.7627°N, 41.9988°E, alt. 25 m).

Classification

Distribution

Saudi Arabia. Also Palaearctic region: Egypt.

Biology

Hosts: unknown.

References

Bouček, Z. 1974. A revision of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the world. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement 23: 1-241.

Gadallah N, Soliman A, Abu El-Ghiet, U, Elsheikh, T, Al Dhafer, H. 2018. The family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the South of Saudi Arabia, with the first report of the genus Micrapion and description of Leucospis arabica sp. nov.. Journal of Natural History 52: 2071-2096. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1510557.

Klug F.F. 1834. Symbolae physicae, seu icones et descriptiones insectorum, quae in itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem Friderici Guilelmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg, studio, novae aut illustratae redierunt. Pars Zoologica. Insecta. 4. Berlin (G. Reimer): pls 31-40.

Madl, M. & Schwarz, M. 2012. Catalogue and faunistics of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the Ethiopian region excluding Malagasy subregion. Linzer biologische Beiträge 44: 1221-1235.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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