Ypsilonigaster pteroloba (de Saeger, 1944) Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L & Boudreault, Caroline, 2018, Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 64, pp. 25-140 : 109

Ypsilonigaster pteroloba (de Saeger, 1944) comb. n.

Fig. 42

Microgaster pteroloba de Saeger, 1944. Original description ( de Saeger 1944: 65).

Holotype.

Female, Democratic Republic of the Congo, RMCA ( Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium). Not examined, but original description checked.

Diagnosis.

Y. pteroloba can be separate from all known species of Ypsilonigaster (except for Y. bumbana ) based on its darker body color (dark brown to black) and infumated wings (all other species are mostly yellow or white-yellow, or have body with striking contrast of four different colors between areas, and all have hyaline wings). Y. pteroloba can in turn be differentiated from Y. bumbana because the later has a mostly red-yellow body color, a less constricted T1 and the fore wing veins r and 2RS join in a more acute angle (compare Figs 40A, B with Fig. 42A, B ).

Biology.

Host unknown.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Molecular data.

No molecular data available.

Figures

Figure 40. Ypsilonigaster bumbana holotype based on modified drawings from the original descriptions of the species (de Saeger 1942). A Fore wing B Tergites 1 to 3.

Figure 42. Ypsilonigaster pteroloba holotype based on modified drawings from the original descriptions of the species (de Saeger 1944). A Tergites 1 to 3 B Fore wing details of pterostigma and nearby veins C Hypopygium, ovipositor and ovipositor sheaths.