Lepidura variegata Dasch 1974

• Main Authors: Araujo, Rodrigo O., Vivallo, Felipe
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae; Lepidura; Lepidura variegata; Antártica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5978415; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/873587DCFF985B12FF65FCB8FA04FA38

Lepidura variegata Dasch, 1974 Lepidura variegata Dasch, 1974. 18, 26, 476 (Original description, keyed, comparative illustration of metasoma); Lanfranco, 1974. 203 (Listed); Lanfranco, 1980. 79 (Listed). Diagnosis : Body mostly reddish brown. Antenna, central portion of supra-antennal area, around ocelli, gena and anterior and lateral stripes on mesoscutum, dark brown. Remainder of legs light green. Metasoma darker on petiole and T2. Gena wide, 2.50–3.00 as wide as lateral ocellus diameter. Hypopygium strongly scletorized, thus dark. Propodeum without areola but with subpentagonal area delimited by complete lateral longitudinal and posterior transverse carina and incomplete anterior transverse and median longitudinal carina (Fig. 1). Comments : This is the darkest species of the genus. Type material : Holotype female (CNC, examined). Type locality : CHILE: Región de Los Lagos : Caremalpu. Distribution (Fig. 4): CHILE: Región de Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo : Melinka (Dasch, 1974). Región de Bío-Bío : Pichimahuel (Dasch, 1974). Región de Los Lagos : Caremalpu, Dalcahue, Enco, Puerto Fuy (Dasch, 1974). Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena : Cameron (Dasch, 1974; Lanfranco, 1974). Material Examined : 1 female: Holotype, Caremalpu Llanquihue, Chile, Feb. 21–28, 1957, L. Peña (CNC). 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 226, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/2607942