Kibalus mubfs Rousse & van Noort

Rousse, Pascal, van Noort, Simon & Diller, E., 2013, Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species, ZooKeys 354, pp. 1-85 : 60-62

Kibalus mubfs Rousse & van Noort sp. n. Figs 35-36

Type material.

Holotype male: Uganda, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1523m, 0°33.84'N, 30°21.70'E, 9. viii. 2008, S. van Noort, UG08 –KF8– S02, sweep, primary mid–altitude rainforest. SAM–HYM–P 044120 (SAMC).

Diagnosis.

Female unknown. Male: head and mesosoma mainly reddish yellow, propodeum slightly infuscate dorsally, metasoma brownish with apices of tergites 2-7 yellow; body densely and deeply punctate with propodeum rugulose–reticulate, tergite 1 smooth, following tergites alutaceous; notaulus moderate; propodeum mid–posteriorly concave, carination almost complete with area superomedia present but weak, hexagonal, slightly wider than long. HdWi 1.5; HfWi 1.2; Ci 2.1; Mi 0.2; Di 3.8; IOi 0.8; OOi 1.2; Fli1 5.7, Fli15 2.1, Fli24 1.8; OTi NA.

Description.

MALE (Holotype). B 4.2; A 3.2; F 2.8.

Color. Head, mesosoma and legs yellow, slightly darkenning dorsally to yellowish orange; propodeum medially infuscate; flagellum brown; metasoma brown with thyridia, spiracular areas and apex of all tergites yellow; wings hyaline, venation light brown.

Head. Clypeus transverse, almost smooth with isolated punctures; face slightly transverse and produced forwards; face and frons deeply and densely punctate but finely transversely puncto–striate medially; vertex and temple deeply and densely punctate; gena quite smooth; ocellar triangle slightly wider than long; temple strongly and regularly rounded, head distinctly swollen behind eyes; antenna slender with 25 flagellomeres.

Mesosoma. Pronotum deeply rugulose but dorsal margin deeply and densely punctate; mesopleuron and metapleuron deeply, densely and coarsely punctate, punctures sometimes confluent into longitudinal rugosities, speculum smooth; epicnemial carina reaching level of postero–ventral corner of pronotum; mesoscutum deeply and densely punctate, punctation rougher medially; scuto–scutellar groove smooth; scutellum similarly punctate; propodeum rugulose–reticulate, mid–longitudinally concave; propodeal carination anteriorly moderate and posteriorly faint, area superomedia defined, hexagonal, receiving costula anteriorly to middle.

Metasoma. Tergite 1 smooth, following alutaceous.

FEMALE. Unknown.

Etymology.

Named after the acronym of Makerere University Biological Field Station, where the holotype was collected. The field station is affectionately called “Mubfs” by those privileged to have experienced a stay there. Noun in apposition.

Distribution.

Uganda.