Diaparsis (Diaparsis) ramassamy Rousse & Villemant, 2012

Khalaim, Andrey I., 2013, Afrotropical species of Diaparsis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae), African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 127-127 : 151

Diaparsis (Diaparsis) ramassamy Rousse & Villemant, 2012

Diaparsis ramassamy: Rousse & Villemant 2012: 51 [holotype ♀ (MNHN), Reunion, Bras Panon / La Caroline, 230 m, 03/05, leg. Rousse].

Diagnosis (based on the original description and illustrations):

Small species with fore wing length 2.2–2.5 mm and body length about 3.0– 3.4 mm. Head and mesosoma granulate, probably impunctate. Flagellum filiform, basally slen­der, with 18–19 segments in female and 20 segments in male. Malar space 1.2× as long as basal width of mandible. Foveate groove of mesopleuron present, strongly oblique. Propodeal spiracle separated from pleural carina by 2.5 diameters of spiracle. Fore wing with second recurrent vein distinctly postfurcal. Metacarp probably ending far short of fore wing apex. First tergite slender, round in cross-section, with glymma situated behind middle. Legs slender. Ovipositor slender and very long, more than 3.0× as long as first tergite, strongly sinuate at apex. Head (lower part of clypeus, mandible and palpi yellowish), mesosoma and first metasomal segment reddish black. Antenna fuscous, without pale band, basally brownish. Metasoma behind first tergite brown. Pterostigma pale brown. Legs yellow, hind coxa slightly infuscate.

Distribution: Reunion.