Amazopimpla lutea Palacio, Sääksjärvi, Gauld & Jussila, 2003

Sääksjärvi, Ilari E., Palacio, Edgard, Gauld, Ian D., Jussila, Reijo & Salo, Jukka, 2003, A new genus and six new species of the tropical Camptotypus genus­group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae) from northern South America, Zootaxa 197, pp. 1-18 : 11-13

Amazopimpla lutea Palacio, Sääksjärvi, Gauld & Jussila , sp.n. ( Figs. 5 , 9 )

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Holotype female: Colombia, Valle, Buenaventura, Llano Bajo, 03°53´S, 77°04´W, 3.X.1971, M. Cooper leg. ( BMNH). Paratype female: Colombia: Valle, Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali, Anchicayá, 03°26´S, 76°48´W, 650 m, Malaise trap, 9.V.­18.VII.2000 (Sarria) ( IAVH).

HOLOTYPE FEMALE: Mandible proximally rather strongly tapered, with upper tooth slightly longer than lower tooth. Malar space about 0.2 times basal mandibular width. Face polished, with very sparse setiferous punctures, about 1.2 times as wide as medially high. Length­to­thickness ratio of first flagellomere about 5.2. Head, in dorsal view, with gena weakly but evenly rounded behind eye; posterior ocellus separated from compound eye by 1.4 times its own maximum diameter; ocelli forming a rather equilateral triangle; occipital carina present ventrally as a vestige (rather weak), joining hypostomal carina. Pronotum bare, in profile rather short and mediodorsally rather long. Mesoscutum with some isolated whitish hairs, centrally bare, anteriorly evenly rounded, with notauli moderately impressed. Mesopleuron highly polished, with some setiferous punctures, with some whitish hairs; epicnemial carina very low, hardly reaching the level of lower corner of pronotum; epicnemium with a secondary carina adjacent to front coxa. Metapleuron very weakly convex, smooth and polished, with some setiferous punctures; submetapleural carina distinct but interrupted in its posterior part. Propodeum in profile evenly declivous, smooth and polished, laterally with some setiferous punctures; pleural carina present but interrupted posteriorly. Fore wing length about 7.0 mm; vein 3rs­m complete, enclosing an obliquely rhombic areolet. Hind wing with abscissa of Cu1 between M and cu­a moderately bowed, about 4.3 times as long as cu­a. Length of hind femur about 3.9 times its breadth. Metasoma stout; tergite 1 about 1.1 times as long as posteriorly broad, without lateromedian carinae, with a weak lateral carinae present, but interrupted centrally; tergite 1 in profile dorsally somewhat angulate; tergite 2 about 0.5 times as long as posteriorly broad, with a distinct central area, median lateral oblique and posterior transverse grooves polished with some distinct punctures; tergites 3­5 with a wide, poorly defined, slightly biconvex smooth central area, the surrounding furrows partly punctate. Ovipositor projecting beyond apex of metasoma by about 3.0 times length of hind tibia; ovipositor shaft moderately slender, rather straight, laterally weakly compressed; ovipositor subapically subcylindrical; apex of lower valve dorsolaterally expanded to partially enclose the upper valve, bearing about 11 weak rather straight apical teeth; apex of upper valve with about 10 dorsal teeth.

Head orange; face (except an orange V shaped area below the antennal insertions), lower gena, clypeus, mandible and the other mouthparts whitish, mandibular teeth and antenna black; mesosoma and metasoma entirely orange, middle tergites with brownish central blotches; ovipositor shaft blackish. Legs orange; fore and middle femora and tibiae apically dark brown, hind trochantellus wholly, femora and tibiae apically dark brown, hind tarsus brownish. Wings yellowish, fore wing with an apical brown spot; pterostigma yellowish.

THE PARATYPE FEMALE agrees the holotype but its colouring is somewhat different: the head is black, the face mainly whitish, excepting by a black V shaped area below the antennal insertions and the metasoma is entirely orange.

MALE unknown.

DIAGNOSIS: A. lutea can be distinguished most easily from all the other known species in the genus by its distinctly yellowish­orange body coloration, the fact that it lacks the blackish median band of the fore wings, and its rather small size.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name refers to the coloration of this species.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Amazopimpla lutea Palacio, Sääksjärvi, Gauld & Jussila, sp. n. Mesosoma, anterior part of metasoma and hind leg, showing colour pattern (Paratype female).

FIGURE 9. Amazopimpla lutea Palacio, Sääksjärvi, Gauld & Jussila, sp. n. The tip of the ovipositor (Paratype female).