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Leucospis
africana
Cameron, 1907
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Leucospis arabica Gadallah and Soliman,
2018 |
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Leucospis
carinifera Kriechbaumer,
1894
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Leucospis
elegans Klug,
1834
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Leucospis
fallax Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
fuelleborniana
Enderlein,
1903
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Leucospis
holubi Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
incarnata Westwood,
1839
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Leucospis
insularis Kirby,
1900
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Leucospis
namibica Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
obsoleta Klug,
1834
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Leucospis
ornata Westwood,
1839
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Leucospis
osmiae Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
parvula Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
pubescens Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
reversa Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
rostrata Bouček,
1974
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Leucospis
schlettereri
Schulthess-Schindler,
1899
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Leucospis
tricolor Kirby,
1883 |
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Leucospis
varicollis Cameron,
1909 |
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Leucospis
species
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Distribution |
Afrotropical region:
Burundi, Central African Republic,
Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Gabon,
Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho,
Liberia,
Malawi,
Madagascar,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
Sudan,
Tanzania, Uganda,
Yemen,
Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Also Worldwide. |
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Biology |
Parasitoids of solitary bees and wasps. |
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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.
Gess F.W. 1981. Some aspects of an ethological study of
the aculeate wasps and the bees of
a karroid area in the vicinity of Grahamstown, South Africa. Annals of the
Cape Provincial Museums, Natural History 14 (1): 1-80.
Kirby, W.F. 1883. Remarks on the genera of the subfamily
Chalcidinae, with synonymic notes and descriptions of new species of
Leucospidinae and Chalcidinae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London,
Zoology 17 (98): 53-78, pls 3, 4.
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.
Schulthess-Schindler,
A. de. 1899.
La faune entomologique du Delagoa. Hymenoptères. Bulletin de la Société
Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 35 (132): 249-277.
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.
Weaving A.J.S. 1995. A comparison of nesting success and nesting habits
in some Afrotropical aculeate wasps, with particular reference to nest parasites
(Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Eumenidae). Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums
(Natural History) 19 (4): 181-224.
Westwood J.O. 1839. Die Hymenopteren-Gattung
Leucospis, monographisch behandelt. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 1
(2): 237-266, pls 3, 4. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Michael Madl and Martin Schwarz (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna), or
photographs ©
Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg).
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