Family LEUCOSPIDAE
Compiler and date details
July 2012 - Danielle N. Stringer, Sarah Mantel, John T. Jennings & Andrew D. Austin, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and the School of Earth and Environmental Science, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Introduction
This is a small, rarely collected family with 11 described species in Australia. Leucospids are among the largest of the chalcidoids, with some species up to 16 mm in length. They are characterised by the hind femur swollen and the ventral surface toothed; the tegula elongate, more than two times longer than wide; the fore wing often longitudinally folded; the ovipositor generally exserted and curving upward over the metasoma; the body usually black, non-metallic and with yellow or red markings.
Leucospids are parasitoids of solitary aculeate Hymenoptera, mostly bees. Leucospis is the only Australian genus, and is treated in Boucek (1988).
History of changes
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| 07-Aug-2012 | 07-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 06-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED |