Loboscelidia atra

Small glitter wasps with a brown body. This is one of several species of the genus with well-developed complete scrobatic mesoscleral grooves, a rectangular frontal protrusion and a tendril scapus , whose length is 3 times its width and the methanotum is 2 times shorter than the scutellum. The antennae are attached horizontally on the nose frontal protrusion. The head behind passes into a neck-like protrusion covered with bristles. Teguls are very large, cover the base of the wings. In the fore wings, there is no stigma, costal and subcostal veins. They have a pronounced sexual dimorphism : the antennae of the males are thin and long, the metasome consists of 5 visible segments, and in the females the antennae are wide and shorter, the abdomen is 4-segmented. Presumably, like other species of its kind, parasitoids use host eggs ( Phasmatodea ) as hosts. The species was first described in 1983 by entomologist Karl Crombane, and its valid status was confirmed during a generic audit in 2012 by American hymenopterologist Professor Lynn S. Kimsey , Bohart Museum of Entomology , Department of Entomology, University of California , Davis , California , USA ) ^{[1] [2]} .

• Kimsey Lynn S. “Review of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae)” (Eng.) // ZooKeys . - Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers, 2012 .-- Vol. 213 . - P. 1-40 . - ISSN 1313-2970 .

• Genus Loboscelidia (Hymenoptera Online Database )