Hyposoter reunionis ( Benoit, 1957 )

Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, Zootaxa 3278, pp. 1-57 : 19

Hyposoter reunionis ( Benoit, 1957)

( Fig. 8 e)

Campoplex reunionis Benoit, 1957: 313

Diagnosis. Black species with legs and apices of metasomal tergites orange. The areolet on fore wing is present and the carination of propodeum is complete.

Description. Benoit (1957).

Comments. Species described from three males in poor condition. We collected a female which matches Benoit’s description but with 28 flagellomeres compared with the original description of 31 flagellomeres in the male. The ovipositor is stout and short, OTi 0.2.

Distribution records. Reunion.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE 3 ( MNHN EY 2025) Verbatim label data: La Réunion, Piton des Neiges, Côteau Maigre, alt. 1800m, 28–29 1 1955, leg. Institut scientifique de Madagascar; antennae, middle tarsi and hind apical tarsomeres lacking. Other material 1Ƥ Plaine des Palmistes / Piton de Bébour, alt. 1470m, I.2011, leg. P. Rousse.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Campopleginae and Metopiinae (females), habitus. a: Diadegma mollipla. b: Dusona pauliani. c: Venturia canescens. d: Eriborus pallipes. e: Hyposoter reunionis. f: Triclistus aitkeni.