Pristomerus veloma Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013

Rousse, Pascal & Noort, Simon van, 2015, Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 124, pp. 1-129 : 105-106

Pristomerus veloma Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013

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Diagnosis (range of variation from Rousse et al. 2013)

Large; head, mesosoma and legs reddish-orange; antenna, inter-ocellar area, metasoma and ovipositor sheath black; face moderately densely punctate-granulate; inner margins of eyes slightly diverging ventrally; clypeus transverse, dorsally moderately punctate and ventrally smooth; malar line long; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina shortly above mandible base; antenna long with 34–37 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere shorter than wide; mesosoma densely and deeply punctate but pronotum mid-dorsally and speculum ventrally smooth, and mesopleuron with an oblique striate furrow below speculum; area superomedia stout; female femoral tooth strong and acute, distinctly higher than basally wide, followed by distinct and sometimes merged denticles; ovipositor moderately long, apically weakly sinuous. B 7.1–9.1; A 5.0–6.3; F 5.9–7.5; CT 1.9; ML 0.7; POL 0.6; OOL 0.6; Fl n–1 0.7; ASM 1.5; OT 1.7–1.9; FFT 2. Male: mesosoma smoother, ocelli and femoral tooth enlarged; B 7.1–8.5; A 5.0–6.0; F 5.9–7.2; POL 0.4; OOL 0.3.

Differential diagnosis

Large, reddish-orange with metasoma black; differentiated from all other Afrotropical Pristomerus species by the combination of that colour pattern, the distinctly diverging inner orbits in both sexes, the long antenna and the strong female femoral tooth. Pristomerus zulu sp. nov., in South Africa, shares a similar colour pattern, but is readily differentiated by its white and subparallel inner orbits.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR: ♀, “ MADAGASCAR, Rogez , forêt côte est, XII. 30, EY 0000003545” ( MNHN).

Distribution

Madagascar.

Figures

Fig. 40. Pristomerus veloma Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013. Holotype, ♀. A. Habitus, lateral view (inset: data labels). B. Head, mesosoma, dorsal view. C. Head, anterior view. D. Propodeum, dorsal view. E. Mesosoma, lateral view. F. Hind tibia, lateral view.