Pristomerus guinness Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013

Rousse, Pascal & Noort, Simon van, 2015, Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 124, pp. 1-129 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2015.124

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8E33A9C0-0940-4EF8-8105-7B71D9282635

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3794981

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E387CC-FFC4-AB49-7FF5-FEC4FEBFEE5F

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Pristomerus guinness Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013
status

 

Pristomerus guinness Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013

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Diagnosis (range of variation from Rousse et al. 2013)

Head whitish yellow with frons, inter-ocellar area and occiput black; mesosoma testaceous–orange; metasoma black with apical margin of tergites 2–7 white; antenna basally black, fading to pale testaceous, then apically darker; face densely and shallowly punctate; inner margins of eyes subparallel; clypeus transverse, sparsely punctate; malar line long; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina shortly above mandible base; antenna long with 35–36 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere quadrate; mesosoma elongate, very densely punctate-granulate except pronotum centrally and speculum ventrally smoother, and mesoscutum mid-posteriorly transversely rugose; area superomedia elongate; female femoral tooth about as long as basally wide; ovipositor moderately long, weakly sinuous apically. B 6.2–9.2; A 4.7– 6.9; F 4.9–7.1; CT 1.8; ML 0.7; POL 0.7; OOL 0.4; Fl n–1 1.0; ASM 2.5; OT 1.4–1.5; FFT 1–2. Male with ocelli and femoral tooth enlarged, posterior ocellus almost touching eyes dorsally; otherwise similar to female. OOL 0.1; POL 0.4.

Differential diagnosis

Rather large Madagascan species, differentiated from all other Afrotropical species by the atypical colour pattern: head mostly white, mesosoma testaceous orange and metasoma mostly black with apical margins of tergites white. The only other Afrotropical species with a somewhat similar colour pattern is P. zulu sp. nov., whose face is medially reddish-testaceous and the malar line is distinctly shorter.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR: ♀, “ MADAGASCAR, Rogez , foret côte est, V. 32, EY 0000003649” ( MNHN).

Distribution

Madagascar.

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SubOrder

Apocrita

SuperFamily

Ichneumonoidea

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Cremastinae

Genus

Pristomerus

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