Lusius tenuissimus (Heinrich, 1938)

Rousse, Pascal, van Noort, Simon & Diller, E., 2013, Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species, ZooKeys 354, pp. 1-85 : 70-72

Lusius tenuissimus (Heinrich, 1938) Figs 42-43

Material examined.

Democratic Republic of Congo 2 females 3 males: Congo Belge: Kivu Rutshuru 1285m. 11.vii.1935. G.F de Witte: 1083b. (MRAC); Kenya 1 female: KENYA, Ruma National Park, 1250m, 0°39.121'S, 34°19.417'E, 26 July 2008, S. van Noort, UG08 –KEN–S 09, sweep, savanna woodland, SAM–HYM–P 047367 (NMKE); Malawi 1 female: Nyasaland, Mlanje, 5.IX.13, 2, 300 ft, S.A. Neave, 1914- 75, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (BMNH); Nigeria 1 female: Ibadan, Nigeria, Dec. 18 1962, D.C. Eidt (CNCI); South Africa 1 female: South Africa, Kwazulu–Natal, Umtamvuna Nature Reserve, 31°03.51'S, 30°10.48'E, 160m, 11-18. xi. 2000, S. van Noort, yellow pan, KW00-Y35, coastal forest / pondoland, coastal plateau sour grassland margin, SAM–HYM–P 044125 (SAMC); Zimbabwe 1 male: Rhodesia: Salisbury [Harare] Chishawasha i.1979. A. Watsham (BMNH); 1 female: same data as previous specimen except for: Zimbabwe, xii.1980 (BMNH); 1 male: same data as previous specimen except for: ii.1981 (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

Entirely pale to bright yellow, more or less yellowish–orange dorsally; basal half of flagellum testaceous, apical half black with a white ring; antenna long and slender, apical half distinctly enlarged, apical truncation of scape strongly oblique; head mostly smooth but face densely and shallowly punctate; clypeus high, its ventral margin medially protruding; antenna with 32-37 flagellomeres; mesosoma laterally densely, shallowly and coarsely punctate, including speculum, but pronotum shallowly strigose; mesonotum nearly smooth, with notaulus long and crenulate and scuto–scutellar groove longitudinally striate; propodeum coarsely reticulate with apical transverse carina and some remnant of submedian longitudinal carinas present apically; epicnemial carina mid–ventrally highly raised and produced anteriorly into a sharp angle; metasoma finely and deeply reticulate but tergite 1 almost smooth; gastrocoelus large, oblique and shallow; gastrocoelus long, moderately deep, thyridium at basal fifth of tergite 2. B 6.4-8.2; A 4.5-5.4; F 3.8-4.8 (ranges measured on all observed females); HdWi 1.7; HfWi 1.1; Ci 1.7; Mi 1.1; IOi 1.3; OOi 1.3; Fli1 7.4; Fli15 1.3; Fli35 2.0; OTi 0.3 (indices measured on SAMC female). Male: similar to female. B 6.9; A 5.1; F 4.2.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of Congo,Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe (new records). Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar.