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Lepidura improcera Dasch 1974

Description

Lepidura improcera Dasch, 1974

Lepidura improcera Dasch, 1974. 17, 31, 476 (Original description, keyed, comparative illustration of metasoma); Lanfranco, 1974. 203 (Listed); Lanfranco, 1980. 79 (Listed).

Diagnosis: Body light green. Supra-antennal and ocellar areas, dorsal half of gena, propodeum, mesothorax and metasomal segments 6–9 dark brown. Antenna and all tarsi reddish brown. This species is easily identified by having 43 flagellomeres. Propodeum with areola delimited by median longitudinal carina and anterior and posterior transverse carina (Fig. 3).

Type material: Holotype female (USNM, not examined).

Type locality: CHILE: Región de Magallanes y de La Antártica Chilena: El Salto.

Distribution (Fig. 6): * ARGENTINA: Neuquén: San Martín de Los Andes. CHILE: Región de Magallanes y de La Antártica Chilena: El Salto (Dasch, 1974; Lanfranco, 1974).

Material Examined: 1 female: RA Neuquen, S. Martin Andes, Pucará, Jan’70, Schajovskoy Coll (FSCA).

Notes

Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O. & Vivallo, Felipe, 2018, Taxonomic revision of Lepidura Townes, 1971 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) with the description of three new species, new distribution records and a key to the all known species, pp. 215-229 in Zootaxa 4514 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/2607942

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
FSCA , USNM
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Lepidura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Dasch
Species
improcera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lepidura improcera Dasch, 1974 sec. Araujo & Vivallo, 2018

References

  • Dasch, C. E. (1974) Neotropic Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Uol. 22. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, 509 pp.
  • Lanfranco, L. D. (1974) Contribucion al conocimiento de la ichneumofauna de la Region de Magallanes (Hymenoptera- Ichneumonidae). Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Punta Arenas, Chile, 5, 199 - 208.
  • Lanfranco, L. D. (1980) Contribucion al conocimiento de los icneumonidos de Chile (Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 10, 77 - 84.