REVISION OF LEUCOSPIDAE 141 



The E LEG A NS-Group 



L. elegans Klug, known in the Mediterranean subregion only from Egypt, is 

 discussed elsewhere (p. 144) together with the bulk of the species of the group. Here 

 only the following species is dealt with. 



Leucospis brevicauda Fabricius 



(Text-figs 169, 170) 



Leucospis brevicauda Fabricius, 1804 : 169, $. LECTOTYPE § (here designated), 'Barbaria' 

 = Algeria? (UZM, Copenhagen) [examined]. 



Leucospis Grohmanni Spinola, 1838 : 444-446, £ $. LECTOTYPE $ (here designated), Italy: 

 Sicily (MIZS, Turin) [examined]. 



Leucospis clavata Westwood, 1839 : 256-257, §. LECTOTYPE § (here designated), Italy: 

 Sicily (UM, Oxford) [examined]. 



Leucospis Fabricii Westwood, 1839 : 257. Holotype (J, 'Barbaria' = Algeria? (UZM, Copen- 

 hagen) [examined]. 



Leucospis torquata Costa, 1882 : 24, 37, $. LECTOTYPE <$ (here designated), Italy: Sardinia, 

 Alghero (IZU, Naples) [examined]. 



The apparently single original specimen of L. brevicauda designated as lectotype. 



L. grohmanni. I selected the lectotype female from the bulk of the original 

 material consisting of four females and two males in the Spinola collection in Turin 

 in 1969. Some years ago I examined another female, probably from the original 

 material, sent by Spinola to the MNHU, Berlin (Boucek, 1959 : 441). Synonymized 

 with brevicauda by Schletterer (1890 : 178, 180-181). 



L. clavata. From the two apparently original specimens in the Westwood 

 collection the one labelled 'Sicily, F. W. Hope' is selected as lectotype. Synonymized, 

 as well as the following L. fabricii, with brevicauda by Schletterer (1890 : 178, 181), 

 although in the latter case with some doubts. 



L. fabricii. From the two original males of L. dispar Fabricius (see under 

 L. dorsigera Fabricius p. 142) in the Copenhagen Museum one belongs to the 'minor' 

 form mentioned by Fabricius (1804 : 169) and became later the type on which 

 Westwood based his L. fabricii. 



L. torquata. I designate as lectotype the original male specimen bearing the 

 right locality label, 'Alghero'. Although Masi did not see this specimen, he rightly 

 synonymized it with L. brevicauda (1935 : 37) and corrected Schletterer's wrong 

 assumption (1890 : 196, 199) that torquata might be the same as L. intermedia 

 Illiger. 



L. brevicauda is a very distinctive species (see the key), and its colour pattern 

 which, although slightly variable, always shows the hind tibia black, in contrast 

 with the extensively yellow hind femur. Some useful characters were mentioned 

 by Schletterer (1890 : 178-181), by Masi (1935 : 37-39), who redescribed the male, 

 and by BouCek (1959 : 437, Fig. 5). 



Biology. Hosts still unknown. 



Distribution. Portugal (Boucek, 1959), Spain, S. France, Italy (including 

 Sardinia and Sicily), Turkey (Masi, 1935 : 37, mentions a male from 'Armenia?'), 

 Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. 



