Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972

Gumovsky, Alex, 2023, Revision of Xiphentedon Risbec, 1957 and Colpixys Waterston, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with descriptions of new species from the Afrotropics, European Journal of Taxonomy 905, pp. 1-83 : 20-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.905.2325

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:160592A4-64B3-40C7-BA75-8CE075F873A5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10423621

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385E767-FF8E-AC4A-6E36-FE64FCF7FDAE

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scientific name

Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972
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Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972 View in CoL

Figs 1F View Fig , 9E–F View Fig , 10 View Fig

Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972: 203 View in CoL .

Diagnosis

As for the genus, and also: large species (about 5.0 mm ♀, 3.0 mm ♂) with elongate mesosoma and gaster; body bright green, scape pale, only tip dark, rest of antenna dark, all legs, except for metallic coxae and darker pretarsi, pale( Fig. 10 View Fig ); axillula coarsely sculptured, with pliciform structures ( Fig. 9F View Fig ); median propodeal furrow with subparallel margins, coriaceous ( Fig. 1F View Fig ); propodeum with three to five setae on flange and posteriad spiracular tubercle; prosternum evenly curved, with a small transverse carina on its arc.

Female

Pedicel plus flagellum nearly 3.0 × as long as scape, pedicel 2.3×, scape 5.0–5.5× as long as wide, flagellum with elongate segments, F1 about 6.0×, F2 nearly 5.0×, F3 4.0 ×, clava about 5.0× as long as wide, with elongate clavomeres and with deep constriction between them; metasomal petiole transverse conical, slightly wider than long, with robust, evenly sloping metallic neck; gaster about 6.0× as long as wide, very long, syntergum in form of a broad parallel-sided stylus, 6.0–7.0× as long as wide; CC with one to three setae on ventral side; WIP with wide violet area apically, followed by some green and red narrow stripes.

Male

Antenna with five separate elongate funiculars, scape widened, about 3.3–3.4× as long as wide.

Female and male description

Bouček 1972.

Type material examined

Holotype

GHANA • ♀; Bodomase, E of Kumasi ; 420 m a.s.l.; 6.54° N, 1.14° W; 17 Aug. l967; S. Endrödy-Younga leg.; No 260; ex Pennisetum purpureum ; NHMUK 5.2175 About NHMUK .

GoogleMaps

Paratypes

GHANA • 14 ♀♀, 7 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; NHMUK • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; ZISP 1 ♀, 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; USNM .

Other material examined

CAMEROON • 10 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Idenao , R. Sanje ; 4°14′ N, 9°00′ E; 13 May 2001; R.J. Post leg.; NHMUK GoogleMaps 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Yaoundé, Nkolbisson station ; 15 Dec. 1966; P. Bruneau de Miré leg.; CIRAD .

GHANA • 1 ♀; Kumasi , Kwadaso; 3 Mar. 1977; G. Scheibel reiter leg.; NHMUK .

UGANDA • 1 ♂; Semliki, ~ 4 km SW of Bundimasoli ; 17 Feb. 2013; A. Gumovsky leg.; dried marsh; DNA extract A08; SIZK .

Biology

Bred from languriid beetle larvae in stems of Pennisetum purpureum .

Distribution

Ghana ( Bouček 1972; this paper), Cameroon, Uganda (new record).

Remarks

The species is highly distinct: it differs from both C. necator and C. eburnus sp. nov. in general habitus: longer gaster and antennal segments, in particular.

NHMUK

NHMUK

ZISP

Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

SIZK

Ukraine, Kiev, Schmaulhausen Institute of Zoology

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

CIRAD

Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement

SIZK

Schmaulhausen Institute of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Colpixys

Loc

Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972

Gumovsky, Alex 2023
2023
Loc

Colpixys gigas Bouček, 1972: 203

Boucek Z. 1972: 203
1972
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