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Leucospis ornata Westwood

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

Leucospis ornata Westwood, 1839. Lectotype female in Berlin (MNHU). Type locality: Cape Province, South Africa.

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Hosts: Tricarinodynerus guerinii (de Saussurre, 1853) (Vespidae) (Weaving, 1994); Lithurgus sparganotes (Schletterer, 1891) (Rasplus, 1987), Lithurgus spiniferus Cameron, 1905 (as Lithurgus capensis Friese, 1905) (Bouček, 1974), Megachile willowmorensis Brauns, 1926 (Megachilidae) (Bouček, 1974).

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.

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.

Rasplus, J.-Y. 1987. Leucospidae récoltés à Lamto (Cote d’Ivoire). Descriptions des mâles de Leucospis reversa Bouček et Neleucospis masculina Bouček. Revue Française d’Entomologie, Nouvelle Série 9 (4): 172-175.

Weaving, A.J.S. 1994. Notes on nesting behavour in two Afrotropical auplopine wasps Auplopus vitripennis Smith and A. femoralis (Arnold) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Entomologist 113 (2): 140-153.
Westwood J.O. 1839. Die Hymenopteren-Gattung Leucospis, monographisch behandelt. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 1 (2): 237-266, pls 3, 4.

Credits

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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