Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013

Pos, Davide Dal, Claridge, Brandon, Diller, Erich, Noort, Simon Van & Giovanni, Filippo Di, 2023, Still counting: new records, nomenclatural notes, and three new species of Phaeogenini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from the Afrotropical region, European Journal of Taxonomy 868, pp. 1-71 : 34-36

Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013

Figs 12C–D , 13B , 17–18

Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort in Rousse et al., 2013: 21–26 (original description, key).

Chauvinia nyanga – Yu et al. 2016 (catalogue).

Original type series

Holotype: ♀, by original designation ( ZMHB).

Paratypes: 1 ♂ ( ZMHB) ; 1 ♀ ( MRAC) ; 1 ♂ ( NHMUK).

Type locality

Zimbabwe: Nyanga National Park.

Material examined

KENYA • 3 ♀♀; Karen , Nairobi; 6000 ft a.s.l.; Sep. 1971; B. Claridge det.; EMUS • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 2000 m a.s.l.; Oct. 1971; EMUS • 1 ♀, 5 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; May–Jun. 1972; EMUS • 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; Jan.–Mar. 1972; EMUS • 1 ♂; same label data as for preceding; Aug. 1972; EMUS • 4 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; 2000 m a.s.l.; Sep. 1972; EMUS • 2 ♀♀, 13 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; Oct. 1972; EMUS • 2 ♀♀, 8 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; Nov. 1972; EMUS • 2 ♀♀, 15 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; Dec. 1972; EMUS .

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo; Uganda; Zimbabwe ( Rousse et al. 2013); Kenya (new record) ( Fig. 18A–B ).

Remarks

In the original description, Rousse et al. (2013: 23) reported that the mesosoma is mostly black, with “ a longitudinal stripe on mesopleuron sometimes lightening to pale yellow ” (see Rousse et al. 2013: fig. 8e). However, the female specimens from Kenya here examined display a larger yellow area reaching the middle of the mesopleuron and extending to the mesosternum, at least partially ( Fig. 17A–B ).

The 67 specimens recorded from Kenya represent the first record for the country ( Fig. 18A–B ).

Figures

Fig. 12. Head, frontal view. A–B. Chauvinia ganota Claridge sp. nov. A. ♀, holotype (EMUS). B. ♂, paratype (EMUS). – C–D. Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013. C. ♀ (EMUS). D. ♂ (EMUS).

Fig. 13. Habitus, lateral view, ♂. A. Chauvinia ganota Claridge sp. nov., paratype (EMUS). B. Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013 (EMUS).

Fig. 17. Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013, ♀ (EMUS). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. C. Metasoma, dorsal view.

Fig. 18. Distribution of Chauvinia nyanga Rousse & van Noort, 2013. A. Previous (blue dots) and new occurrence records (yellow star). B. Previous (blue) and new (yellow) country records.