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.