Epirhyssa shaka Rousse & van Noort, 2014

Hopkins, Tapani, Roininen, Heikki, Noort, Simon van, Broad, Gavin R., Kaunisto, Kari & Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari E., 2019, Extensive sampling and thorough taxonomic assessment of Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) reveals two new species and demonstrates the limitations of previous sampling efforts, ZooKeys 878, pp. 33-71 : 33

Epirhyssa shaka Rousse & van Noort, 2014 Figs 46-49

Material examined.

Type material: SOUTH AFRICA:

• 1 ♀, holotype; Natal, 2831 Dd Umlalazi Nat. Res., 1.5 km E of Mtunzini; 28°57'S, 31°45'E; Nov. 1978; R. M. Miller leg.; indigenous forest; Malaise trap; NMSA.

Known material: One specimen (1 ♀, see Rousse and van Noort 2014, data above).

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from other Afrotropical Rhyssinae by the combination of a low hypostomal flange, an elliptical apical horn of the metasoma, and a punctate (over 50% of surface) tergite 3.

Head: frons with median carinae converging before continuing towards median ocellus, without lateral carinae; hypostomal carina raised into a low flange, its height slightly less than or equivalent to the maximum width of the second maxillary palp segment.

Mesosoma: subalar prominence without a lateral flange; mesopleuron without a flange along the dorsal margin; epicnemial carina reaches the approximate height of the mesopleural pit.

Metasoma: tip of apical horn elliptical in posterior view; tergite 3 punctate.

Distribution.

South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).

Figures

Figures 46 - 49. Epirhyssa shaka female (holotype). This species was not found in Uganda. 46 Habitus 47 hypostomal flange 48 mesopleuron dorsal margin 49 apical horn of metasoma. Figure 46 is from van Noort (2019).