Isodontia costipennis Spinola 1851

Authors :: Buys, Sandor Christiano
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Zenodo, 2022.
Abstract: Isodontia costipennisSpinola 1851 (Figure 4) Description External capsule. Whitish, translucent; malleable, fragile; nipple-like projection on basal extremity, with terminal orifice; layer of white silken threads sparsely distributed on external surface. Externally covered by vegetal debris. Internal capsule. Brown; texture brittle, internal surface brilliant, external surface opaque, with white pubescence. Nipple-like projection on basal extremity, with terminal orifice. Meconium isolated by a silken layer. Grains of uric acid on basal extremity, the most cylindrical. Material examined Brazil: Minas Gerais: Lavras: Reserva Biol��gica de Unilavras Boqueir��o, F. Frieiro-Costa, 1 April 2014. Six cocoons collected from wood trap-nest.<br />Published as part of Buys, Sandor Christiano, 2022, An overview of cocoon morphology of Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 2935-2949 in Journal of Natural History 55 (47 - 48) on pages 2940-2942, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2036843, http://zenodo.org/record/6351759