Campodorus caucasicus, Riedel & Diller & Japoshvili, 2018

Riedel, Matthias, Diller, Erich & Japoshvili, George, 2018, The Ichneumonid fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Lagodekhi Reserve, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of four new species, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 1447-1507 : 1496

Campodorus caucasicus nov.sp. ( figs 7-9 )

Holotype: (♀) Georgia, Mt. Lagodekhi 1902 m, N 41.53135 E 46.19447, M. T., 15-25.VII.2014 ( ZSM).

Taxonomical r e m a r k: This new species belongs to the group of Campodorus species with long-haired ovipositor sheaths (see KASPARYAN, 2006). In the recent key of KASPARYAN (2006), it runs to couplet 55(56) ( Campodorus ciliatus HOLMGREN ), but differs mainly by the reduced carination of propodeum and the characteristic yellow coloration of the face.

Description: ♀: Body length 6 mm. Flagellum long, filiform, with 33 flagellomeres; 1 st flagellomere (without anellus) 6.3x longer than wide, 2 nd flagellomere 3.6x longer than wide; combined 1 st and 2 nd flagellomeres 1.35x longer than the eye. Head granulate, covered with short pale hairs; face and frons opaque, temple more shining. Temple roundly narrowed behind eye. Clypeus slightly convex, apical margin blunt and bulging centrally, sides narrow and sharp ( fig 8 ). Mandible with two teeth, lower tooth slightly longer than the upper one. Length of malar space c.0.25x width of mandibular base. Mesosoma with short pale hairs, granulate. Mesoscutum slightly shining; notaulus slightly impressed in frontal 0.3 of mesoscutum. Mesopleuron and metapleuron matte, without punctures; speculum with very fine and superficial granulation, strongly shining. Propodeum granulate and matte; area superomedia not carinate; area petiolaris with lateral carina, widely open frontally. Hind femur 5.2x longer than wide. Claws not pectinate.

Areolet open laterally; nervulus postfurcal by 2x its width; nervellus of hind wings anteclivous, intercepted in the apical 0.7.

Metasoma with short pale hairs. 1 st tergite slender, 1.75x longer than wide, with strong lateral glymma and short dorsal carina in basal 0.4, granulate, matte. Following tergites with superficial granulation, more or less shining. Hypopygium with dense short pubescence and some longer hairs, the pubescence directed perpendicular to the surface of hypopgyium. Ovipositor sheath with very long lateral hairs ( fig 9 ).

Color: Black. Scapus reddish-yellow ventrally; flagellum brownish-yellow, three basal flagellomeres blackish dorsally. Palps, mandible except teeth and face except its orbits and a black central stripe cream-yellow ( fig 5 ). Mesoscutum with small cream-yellow anterolateral spots; hind edge of pronotum, tegula and wing base cream-yellow. Metasoma blackish, sternites blackish-brown, central folds of 2 nd to 4 th sternites brownishyellow. Legs including coxae and trochanters reddish; hind tibia reddish-yellow externally and cream-yellow internally, narrow base and apical 0.35 blackish, hind tibial spurs cream-yellow; hind tarsus black. Pterostigma brownish.

♂ unknown.

Figures

Figs 7-9: Campodorus caucasicus nov.sp. holotype: (7) Habitus, (8) face, (9) ovipositor sheaths from dorsal.

Figs 4-5: Tycherus flavofacies nov.sp. holotype: (4) face, (5) head from dorsal.