Lamprojoppa fuscinerva CAMERON 1901

Riedel, M., 2011, Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Southeastern Asia: 1. Tribes Clypeodromini, Listrodromini, Goedartini, Compsophorini, and Platylabini, Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (2), pp. 1549-1572 : 1563-1564

Lamprojoppa fuscinerva CAMERON 1901

M a t e r i a l: Nepal: Namdo, 20 km SW Jin, 1 3.viii.1962, leg. G. Ebert & H. Falkner (ZSM), NW Vietnam: Tonkin, Hoang Lien N.R. 15 km W Sa Pa, c 1900 m, 1 15-21.x.1999, leg. C. van Achterberg, RMNH´99 (Leiden).

D e s c r i p t i o n:

Body length 12-16 mm. Flagellum with 42 (specimen from Nepal) or 45 (specimen from Vietnam) flagellomeres, completely black, without whitish ring, first flagellomere about 3.5 to 3.9 times longer than wide, the 14th or 16th flagellomere square. Area superomedia about 1.3 times as long as wide. Ivory are the orbits beneath the flagellar scrobes, longitudinal stripe at malar space, apical spot of femora I and tibia I anterior. Otherwise as described for Lamprojoppa caerula CAMERON (TERESHKIN 2009: 1512-1513).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Known from India and Myanmar, new records for Nepal and Vietnam.

Taxonomical remark: The available specimens differ from Lamprojoppa caerula CAMERON by their black flagellum and slenderer first flagellomere. The black flagellum had also been noted for Lamprojoppa fuscinerva CAMERON by HEINRICH (1974: 10). However, the ivory pattern on the orbits is more extensive than in the type specimen (HEINRICH 1974: 10, the type could not been studied by me). According to HEINRICH (1974: 113) this group of large, blue-metallic coloured Platylabini contains several closely related species that have not been studied in detail yet. Therefore, it might be possible that these specimens belong to undescribed taxa of Lamprojoppa .