Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
N. Y., Ill., Ark., Colo.; Cosmopolitan.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Spalangia nigripes Curtis
Spalangia muscarum Girault, 1920, p. 213 [female].
This species was described from one female specimen. The type is labeled: “Urbana, Ill., 39589, Spalangia muscarum Girault. ♀ Type. Type No. 20877 U.S.N.M.” The specimen is intact.
This specimen agrees in all diagnostic characters with reliably determined European specimens in the USNM of Spalangia nigripes Curtis, the species with which muscarum has been synonymized by Bouček (1963, p. 468). Five apical funicular segments of antenna broader than long; head and pronotum with relatively sparse, umbilicate punctation and smooth interstices; pronotum lacks an isolated crossline of punctures just anterior to posterior margin; scutellum with a complete frenal crossrow of punctures, anterior scutellar area sparsely punctate laterally, smooth on meson; and second gastral tergum with posterior margin broadly emarginate.
- bibliographic citation
- Burks, B. D. 1969. "Species of Spalangia Latreille in the United States National Museum collection (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.2
