Xanthophenax xanthomelas ( Brullé, 1846 ), Brulle, 1846

Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, Zootaxa 3278, pp. 1-57 : 50

Xanthophenax xanthomelas ( Brullé, 1846)

( Fig. 21 f)

Ephialtes xanthomelas Brullé, 1846: 84

Diagnosis. A large reddish and black species which is readily identifiable due to its clypeus being very strongly notched at the apex.

Description. Rousse (2011).

MALE. Unknown.

Distribution records. Reunion.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE Ƥ ( MNHN EY 6452) Verbatim label data: Muséum de Paris, La Réunion, Bréon 4112–33; head lacking. Other material 1Ƥ Ste Suzanne / Forêt Dugain, alt. 360m, I.2001, leg. Cirad.

Figures

FIGURE 21. Pimplinae and Tersilochinae (females), habitus. a: Zatypota inexpextata. b: Echthromorpha spinator stat. nov. c: Itoplectis albipes. d: Xanthophenax defector. e: Xanthophenax pacificator. f: Xanthophenax xanthomelas. g: Xanthopimpla stemmator. h: Aneuclis larga.