Kimulodes maldesi

Michel, Bruno, 2012, First record of the genus Kimulodes Tjeder & Hansson in West Africa with description of a new species (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae), Zootaxa 3497, pp. 37-40 : 37-40

Kimulodes maldesi nov. sp.

Diagnosis. General coloration brown ( Fig. 1 ). Antennae of male with a tuft of hairs on basal flagellomeres. Antennae of male sinuate basally, not arched at a right angle. Apex of mesoprescutum pointed and raised ( Fig. 6 ). Ectoprocts of male rounded.

Description. Head. Face yellow with yellow-white hairs ( Fig. 2 ). Genae yellow, hairless. Postorbital sclerites and occiput yellowish-white, hairless. Antennae sinuate basally, but not arched at a right angle, shorter than distance between base of forewing and pterostigma. Scape yellow, broader than long, with yellowish hairs. Pedicel light brown. First six flagellomeres mainly brown with the dorsal area of implantation of hairs piceous. Remaining flagellomeres piceous. Size of the tufts of hairs increasing progressively from flagellomeres one to five, decreasing rapidly from flagellomeres 12 to 13. Flagellomere 14 with only two long hairs. Flagellomeres 17 to 23 with small tuft of short hairs. Flagellomere 15 straight. Club pear-shaped. Thorax. Brown dorsally and ventrally. Sides brown with a yellow band along lower part. Side of mesoprescutum and mesoscutum with tuft of hairs ( Fig. 6 ). Posterior margin of mesoprescutum pointed and raised ( Fig. 6 ). Legs. Yellow. Femur with dorsal long white hairs and ventral black erect setae. Tibia with ventral black erect setae. Tarsomeres piceous apically and ventrally. Wings. Forewing 3: 29 mm, hind wing 3: 25 mm. Membrane suffused with light brown. Longitudinal veins yellowish. Costal area of forewing progressively narrowed at base of wing. Anal angle of forewing obtuse. Pterostigma brown with three crossveins. No tuft of hairs at base of the forewing of male. Abdomen. Light brown. Bordered with brown along lateral margin of tergites and sternites ( Fig. 9 ). Sternites yellowish with a piceous median line. Male. Ectoproct rounded. External edge of parameres rounded ( Fig. 11 ). Gonarcus pointed dorsally, at the junction with the parameres ( Fig. 9 ). Pulvini short. Pelta present. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype 3 TOGO Kolokopé [07°47’N 01°17’E] 25.X.1990 J.-M. Maldès leg. (Coll. CIRAD-CBGP).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Togo. This is the first record of the genus Kimulodes in West Africa.

Etymology. Species dedicated to my colleague Jean-Michel Maldès who collected the holotype.

Additional data on Kimulodes angulicornis Tjeder & Hansson, 1992

A male and a female ( Figs. 4, 5 ) in the collection of the MNHN, Paris, were collected in the Central African Republic in the region of Bouar [05°55’N, 15°35’E], which is a new locality record. Tjeder and Hansson (1992) mentioned only one locality in the Central African Republic, Fort Crampel [07°00’N, 19°11’E]. The species is also known from Uganda and Zaire ( Tjeder & Hansson, 1992).

Key to the species of Kimulodes

1. Mesoscutum with two antero-median elevations. Mesoprescutum concave. Antennae of male arched at right angle ( Fig. 8 )............................................................................ K. angulicornis Tjeder & Hansson

- Mesoscutum without elevations. Mesoprescutum convex. Antennae of male sinuate basally........................... 2

2. Apex of mesoprescutum rounded and flat ( Fig. 7 ). Forewing of male with costal area abruptly narrowed at base and anal angle sharply right-angled ( Fig. 3 a). Lateral brown band on abdominal tergites wide ( Fig. 10 ). Parameres of male with extern edge sub-parallel ( Fig. 12 ).................................................................. K. sinuatus (Kimmins)

- Apex of mesoprescutum pointed and raised ( Fig. 6 ). Forewing of male with costal area progressively narrowed at base and anal angle obtuse ( Fig. 1 ). Lateral brown band on abdominal tergites narrow ( Fig. 9 ). Parameres of male with extern edge convex ( Fig. 11 ).................................................................... K. maldesi Michel , nov. sp.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Kimulodes spp. 1 — K. maldesi habitus holotype male. 2 — K. maldesi face and base of antennae. 3 — K. sinuatus 3 a: habitus of holotype male (BMNH); 3 b: labels of holotype. 4 — K. angulicornis habitus of male (MNHN). 5 - K. angulicornis habitus of female (MNHN).

FIGURES 6 – 12. Kimulodes spp. 6 — Mesonotum of male of K. maldesi. 7 — id. K. sinuatus. 8 — id. K. angulicornis. 9 — Terminalia and genitalia of male of K. maldesi. 10 — id. K. sinuatus. 11 — Caudal view of parameres of K. maldesi. 12 — id. K. sinuatus. (e = ectoproct; g = gonarcus; p = paramere; black arrows = tufts of hairs on mesoprescutum and mesoscutum; white arrow = apex of mesoprescutum).