Protoleptops magnificus ( 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 magnificus ( Heinrich, 1967)

Figs 5 A – F , 6 D – F

Apatetorops magnificus Heinrich, 1967: 81–83 (original description, key, figures); Schmidt and Schmidt 2011: 83 (type catalogue).

Protoleptops magnifica [sic]; Townes and Townes 1973: 226 (catalogue, new combination, incorrect gender agreement).

Protoleptops magnificus ; Yu and Horstmann 1997: 530 (catalogue, mandatory change); Yu et al. 2016 (catalogue).

Differential diagnosis.

Protoleptops magnificus can be easily distinguished from all the other known species of the genus by the following combination of characters: (1) incomplete carination of the propodeum, with costulae lacking and area dentipara confluent with area externa and area spiracularis (carination almost complete in P. heinrichi ); (2) temple, in dorsal view, bulging (straight and converging in in P. angolae and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (3) hind tarsus infuscate (white in P. angolae and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (4) presence of a scopa taking up 2 / 3 of the ventral part of the coxa (absent in P. heinrichi , reduced in P. angolae and P. farquharsoni ); (5) mesoscutellum with lateral white marks (reddish-orange in P. farquharsoni and P. angolae ); (6) T 2 longitudinally striate medially (densely punctate in P. angolae and P. farquharsoni ); and (7) mesoscutum sparsely and superficially punctate (densely punctate anteriorly in P. farquharsoni ).

Original type series.

Holotype (by original designation). Tanzania • ♀; Tanga, West Usambara Mountains, Lushoto , 1700 m 19 Feb. 1962; ( ZSM).

Paratypes. Tanzania • 5 ♀♀ & 1 ♂; same locality as the holotype, 17 Feb. 1962; ZSM • 1 ♀; same locality as the holotype, 1600 m, 5 Mar. 1962; ( ZSM) . South Africa • 1 ♀; Eastern Cape, Port St. Johns , 20 Feb. 1963; ( ZSM)

Material examined.

Holotype. Tanzania • ♀; “ [White label] TANGANYIKA / W Usambara Mts. / 1700 m. Lushoto / 19. II. 1962 [White label] Apatetorops / magnificus / ♀ Heinr. / det. Heinr. // [Red label] Holotype // [Pink label] Zoologische Staatssammlung / München / Type-No.: ZSM - Hym- 00240 // [Red label] Typus Nr. Hym. / 420 / Zoologische / Staatsammlung / München. ”; ( ZSM) . Paratypes. Tanzania • ♂; “ [White label] TANGANYIKA / W Usambara Mts. / 1700 m. Lushoto / 17. II. 1962 [White label] Apatetorops / magnificus / ♂ Heinr. / det. Heinr. // [Red label] Allotypus ”; ( ZSM) .

Non-type specimens.

South Africa • 1 ♀; Mpumalanga, Waterval-Boven [= Emgwenya], Elandsrivier , 18. i. 2000, J. Halada leg.; ( OÖLM) .

Male.

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

Distribution.

South Africa: Eastern Cape ( Heinrich 1967); Mpumalanga (new record); Tanzania: Tanga region ( Heinrich 1967) (Fig. 8 ).

Remarks.

In their catalogue, Townes and Townes (1973: 226) provided a new combination for Apatetorops magnificus Heinrich, 1967 , moving the species into the genus Protoleptops . While doing so, they referred to Protoleptops magnifica [sic], possibly misinterpreting the gender of the genus Protoleptops as feminine instead of masculine. Subsequently, Yu and Horstmann (1997: 530) correctly interpreted the gender as masculine and made the mandatory change to the suffix in accordance with ICZN (1999: article 34.2).

Figures

Figure 5. Protoleptops magnificus (Heinrich, 1967), female, holotype A habitus, lateral view B face, frontal view C head, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum, dorsal view D propodeum, dorsal view E hind coxa, ventral view F metasomal tergites, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 cm.

Figure 6. Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967, male, paratype A habitus, lateral view B propodeum and metasomal tergites, dorsal view C face, frontal view. Downloaded from the public MNHN database (available at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/ey/item/ey10173). Protoleptops magnificus (Heinrich, 1967), male, paratype, D face, frontal view E propodeum and 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.