Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972

Figs 1F, 9E–F, 10

Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972: 203 .

Diagnosis

As for the genus, and also: large species (about 5.0 mm ♀, 3.0 mm ♂) with elongate mesosoma and gaster; body bright green, scape pale, only tip dark, rest of antenna dark, all legs, except for metallic coxae and darker pretarsi, pale(Fig. 10); axillula coarsely sculptured, with pliciform structures (Fig. 9F); median propodeal furrow with subparallel margins, coriaceous (Fig. 1F); propodeum with three to five setae on flange and posteriad spiracular tubercle; prosternum evenly curved, with a small transverse carina on its arc.

Female

Pedicel plus flagellum nearly 3.0 × as long as scape, pedicel 2.3×, scape 5.0–5.5× as long as wide, flagellum with elongate segments, F1 about 6.0×, F2 nearly 5.0×, F3 4.0 ×, clava about 5.0× as long as wide, with elongate clavomeres and with deep constriction between them; metasomal petiole transverse conical, slightly wider than long, with robust, evenly sloping metallic neck; gaster about 6.0× as long as wide, very long, syntergum in form of a broad parallel-sided stylus, 6.0–7.0× as long as wide; CC with one to three setae on ventral side; WIP with wide violet area apically, followed by some green and red narrow stripes.

Male

Antenna with five separate elongate funiculars, scape widened, about 3.3–3.4× as long as wide.

Female and male description

Bouček 1972.

Type material examined

Holotype

GHANA • ♀; Bodomase, E of Kumasi; 420 m a.s.l.; 6.54° N, 1.14° W; 17 Aug. l967; S. Endrödy-Younga leg.; No 260; ex Pennisetum purpureum; NHMUK 5.2175.

Paratypes

GHANA • 14 ♀♀, 7 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; NHMUK • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; ZISP • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; USNM .

Other material examined

CAMEROON • 10 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Idenao, R. Sanje; 4°14′ N, 9°00′ E; 13 May 2001; R.J. Post leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Yaoundé, Nkolbisson station; 15 Dec. 1966; P. Bruneau de Miré leg.; CIRAD .

GHANA • 1 ♀; Kumasi, Kwadaso; 3 Mar. 1977; G. Scheibel reiter leg.; NHMUK .

UGANDA • 1 ♂; Semliki, ~ 4 km SW of Bundimasoli; 17 Feb. 2013; A. Gumovsky leg.; dried marsh; DNA extract A08; SIZK .

Biology

Bred from languriid beetle larvae in stems of Pennisetum purpureum .

Distribution

Ghana (Bouček 1972; this paper), Cameroon, Uganda (new record).

Remarks

The species is highly distinct: it differs from both C. necator and C. eburnus sp. nov. in general habitus: longer gaster and antennal segments, in particular.