Protoleptops angolae ( Heinrich, 1967 )

Dal Pos, Davide, De Ketelaere, Augustijn & Di Giovanni, Filippo, 2024, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new species from Burundi, ZooKeys 1214, pp. 197-216 : 197-216

Protoleptops angolae ( Heinrich, 1967)

Figs 1 A – F , 3 A – C

Apatetorops angolae Heinrich, 1967: 83–84 (original description, key); Schmidt and Schmidt 2011: 64 (type catalogue).

Protoleptops angolae ; Townes and Townes 1973: 226 (catalogue, new combination); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 530 (catalogue); Yu et al. 2016 (catalogue).

Differential diagnosis.

Protoleptops angolae can be easily distinguished from all the other known species of the genus by the following combination of characters: (1) incomplete carination of propodeum, with costulae lacking and area dentipara confluent with area externa and area spiracularis (carination almost complete in P. heinrichi ); (2) temples straight and converging (bulging and not converging in P. farquharsoni , P. heinrichi and P. magnificus ); (3) white hind tarsus (infuscate in P. farquharsoni , P. heinrichi , and P. magnificus ); (4) presence of a small scopa (absent in P. heinrichi , bigger in P. magnificus and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (5) mesoscutellum reddish-orange (entirely white in P. nyeupe sp. nov. and with white lateral marks in P. magnificus ); (6) T 2 medially densely punctate (longitudinally striate in P. magnificus and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (7) area petiolaris not delimited (clearly separated from area superomedia in P. nyeupe sp. nov.); and (8) mesopleuron densely and strongly punctate (superficially and sparsely punctate in P. nyeupe sp. nov.).

Original type series.

Holotype (by original designation). Angola • ♀; Cuanza Norte, Roca Canzele, 30 km north of Quiculungo , Mar. 1954; ( ZSM) . Paratypes Angola • 1 ♀ & 1 ♂; Cuanza Norte, Roca Canzele, 30 km north of Quiculungo , Mar. 1954; ( ZSM) .

Material examined.

Holotype. Angola • ♀; “ [White label] Roca Canzele / Angola, 30 km / nordl. Quiculungo / III. 54 // [White label] Apatetorops / ♀ angolae / det Heinr. Heinr // [Red label] Holotype // [Pink label] Zoologische Staatssammlung / München / Type-No.: ZSM - Hym- 00241 // [Red label] Typus Nr. Hym. / 421 / Zoologische / Staatsammlung / München. ”; ( ZSM) . Paratype. Angola • 1 ♂; “ [White label] Roca Canzele / Angola, 30 km / nordl. Quiculungo / III. 54 // [ White label] Apatetorops / ♂ angolae / det Heinr. Heinr // [Red label] Allotype; ( ZSM) .

Non-type specimens.

Uganda • 1 ♀; Kibale N. P., Kanyawara Bio. Station , 00 ° 33 ' 54.4 " N, 30 ° 21 ' 29.8 " E, 11–18 Apr. 2010, 1509 m, Malaise trap, S. Katusabe & Co. leg. ( DDPC) .

Male.

Described in the original description by Heinrich (1967) as “ Allotype ”.

Distribution.

Angola: Cuanza Norte Province ( Heinrich 1967); Uganda: Western Region (new record) (Fig. 8 ).

Remarks.

Protoleptops angolae is hereby recorded for the first time in Uganda, expanding the range of the species from southern Africa to East Africa.

Figures

Figure 1. Protoleptops angolae (Heinrich, 1967), female, holotype A habitus, lateral view B face, frontal view C head and mesoscutum, dorsal view D mesoscutellum and propodeum, dorsal view E hind coxa, ventral view F metasomal tergites, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 cm.

Figure 3. Protoleptops angolae (Heinrich, 1967), male, paratype A habitus, lateral view B propodeum and metasomal tergites, dorsal view C face, frontal view. Protoleptops farquharsoni (Heinrich, 1967), male, holotype D face, frontal view E metasomal tergites, dorsal view F habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 1 cm.

Figure 8. Distribution map of the known species of the genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967.