Centistidea mubilibana (de Saeger, 1944)

Fig. 5

Mirax mubilibana de Saeger, 1944: 34. Holotype in RMCA, examined.

Mirax mubilibana: Shenefelt 1973: 678.

Diagnosis.

Body length 2–3 mm, colour variable, mostly black; face, vertex and occiput very finely punctate, shiny; temple smooth; eyes a third longer than wide; length of the ocellar triangle approximately equal to the distance which separates it from each eye; antenna nearly as long as body, 1 st flagellomere a little longer and thinner than the following; mesoscutum regularly and finely punctate, more densely than the face, more sparsely laterally and disc of the scutellum, notauli present anteriorly; scutellar sulcus weakly arched, narrow and foveated; medio-posterior depressions of scutellum very small, round; propodeum rough, with carinae arranged as in M. leucopterae, but median carinae more wide, more or less divided, the apical area comprises approximately a third the length of propodeum; vein r almost completely absent; T 1 2.5 × longer than its greatest width, striate or rugose; T 2 smooth and shiny, with a small tubercle basal medially; T 2 and T 3 of the same length; T 3 with slightly stronger longitudinal aciculation than T 2; ovipositor sheath a little shorter than metatarsus III.

Host.

Unknown.

Material examined

(RMCA). Holotype: • 1 ♀, Congo Belge: PNA Mubiliba (Vol. Nyamuragira), 2000 m, 14–26. VI. 1935, G. F. de Witte: 1499, Coll. Mus. Congo (ex coll. I. P. N. C. B).

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda.