Metopius (Peltocarus) strenuus, Riedel, 2016

Riedel, Matthias, 2016, Contribution to the genus Metopius PANZER (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae) from Africa South of Sahara, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2), pp. 1635-1675 : 1660-1661

Metopius (Metopius) strenuus BENOIT, 1965: 39

H o l o t y p u s (♀) R W Tucker Nov 1918 [back] Kumati R Transv., Metopius (Peltocarus) strenuus n. sp. ♀ P.L.G. Benoit det., 1963 (Cape Town), type studied.

D e s c r i p t i o n of ♀:

Body length 13 mm. Tips of flagella broken off. Mandible with one tooth. Second

maxillary palpomere club-shaped, about 1.9x as long as wide. Frons transversely striate.

Facial shield slightly narrowed ventrally, punctate and with strong carinae, length 1.1x width, pointed below, with small median carina reaching clypeus. Interantennal lamella high, with small subdistal indentation and small distal tooth. Temple strongly narrowed behind eye.

Mesosoma with long whitish hairs. Side of pronotum coarsely punctate, striate anteriorly. Epicnemial carina above sternaulus running to the mesopleural border and then parallel up to subtegular ridge. Central area of propodeum with parallel sides, open apically. Hind femur length 2.6x height. Hind metatarsus 0.5x as long as hind tibia. Outer apical spur of hind tibia 0.55x as long as hind metatarsus. Front and middle claws without visible teeth. Areolet 2.0x as long as wide, second recurrent vein lateral the middle and with two bullae.

First tergite with dorsal carina on the basal 0.5, aciculate in the apical half, spiracle with a small tooth-like extension and strong lamella ventrally. Second and third tergites with tooth-like posterolateral extensions, following tergites rounded posterolaterally.

Color: Black. Flagellum reddish. Palps reddish. Facial shield yellowish, reddish ventrally and with blackish central patch. Yellow are upper face and short stripe on frontal orbit, spot on dorsal mesopleuron combined with subtegular ridge, prescutellar ridge, scutellum completely, postscutellum and posterolateral spot on propodeum, first tergite completely, apical bands on second to fourth tergite (wider than half of tergite), on tergites 5-6 in apical 0.25. Front und middle legs yellow, front and middle coxae and femora basally brown. Hind coxa dark reddish-brown. Hind leg otherwise red. Wing darkened apically.

6 unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: RSA.