Pseudoamblyteles genator, Riedel, 2019

Riedel, Matthias, 2019, Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Nepal, Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 1119-1162 : 1147-1148

Pseudoamblyteles genator nov.sp. (figs 24, 37)

Holotype: ♀ " Nepal, Maharigaon Nord , 29°21´24´´N 82°23´21´´E, 3400 m, 20.06.1997, leg. Creutzburg " ( SDEI).

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 15 mm. Flagellum bristle-shaped, with 40 flagellomeres; all flagellomeres longer than wide; 1 st flagellomere 3.8x longer than wide. Head covered with long erected brownish hairs, densely and coarsely punctate. Temple long, moderately and roundly narrowed behind eye, dorsally c. 0.9x as long as eye. Distance of lateral ocellus from eye 1.7x ocellar diameter. Frons rugose-punctate. Face densely punctate. Clypeus with scattered punctures apically, with sharp and straight apical margin. Gena with dense punctures. Malar space as long as width of mandibular base. Mandible with two teeth; lower tooth much smaller than upper one. Genal carina faint ventrally, not reaching hypostomal carina; hypostomal carina lamelliform widened (about as wide as distal maxillary palpomere).

Mesosoma coarsely and densely punctate, covered with brownish hairs. Mesopleuron coarsely punctate, slightly rugose at caudal margin. Metapleuron coarsely punctate, juxtacoxal carina indistinct. Scutellum moderately elevated, wider than long, with lateral carina in basal half. Area basalis with strong median tubercle. Area superomedia almost square, coarsely rugose; costula absent. Outer dentiparal edge with small tooth. Hind coxa densely punctate, covered with dense brownish hairs, but without scopa. Hind femur 4.2x longer than wide, densely punctate. Claws strongly pectinate.

Areolet pentagonal, frontal distance of intercubiti 4x their width; 2 nd recurrent vein distal to its middle. Nervulus postfurcal (3x its width).

Metasoma amblypygous. Lateral field of postpetiolus c. 0.8x as wide as median field, median field elevated and striate. Gastrocoelus strongly impressed, with oblique ridges. Thyridium large, slightly oblique, 1.6x wider than the interval. 2 nd tergite 1.2x wider than long, densely but finely punctate, aciculate between thyridia. 3 rd tergite with fine and dense punctures, shining. 2 nd and 3 rd sternites with strong median folds. Hypopygium with apical brush of stiff hairs (as in Eutanyacra). Ovipositor sheath slightly extending behind metasomal apex.

Colour: Black, without bluish shine. 2 nd and 3 rd tergites reddish, gastrocoelus infuscate. Femora and tibiae reddish; tip of hind tibia very narrowly infuscate; mid tarsus brownish, hind tarsus black. Wings slightly infuscate, pterostigma yellowish.

♂ unknown.

R e m a r k: This new taxon is closely related to P. nepalensis , but differs by the finer surface structure of mesosoma, incomplete genal carina and widened hypostomal carina.