Chauvinia pelecinoides 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 : 25-26

Chauvinia pelecinoides Heinrich, 1938 Figs 9-10

Material examined.

SYNTYPES 1 female: Madagaskar, Rogez, 600 m, V–VI.1931 leg. A. Seyrig (ZMPA). 1male: same label data (ZMPA).

Diagnosis.

Female: head more or less extensively yellowish–orange ventrally, remainder of head pale yellow with vertex and occiput black; remainder of body yellowish–orange, apex of metasoma sometimes infuscate; antenna short with 22 flagellomeres, basally dark testaceous, medially white and apically dark brown; upper tooth of mandible twice as long as lower tooth; head and body very faintly sculptured, mostly smooth and polished; propodeum strongly extending apically between hind coxae to their half–length; propodeum mid–longitudinally deeply concave, carination moder ate; metasoma strongly elongate, distinctly longer than hind leg; tergite 3 and following ventrally overlapping. B 11.7; A 4.2; F 5.2. HdWi 1.9; HfWi 1.1; Ci 2.8; Mi 0.7; Di 1.9; IOi 1.2; OOi 0.8; Fli1 4.0; Fli15 1.1; Fli21 0.8; OTi 0.1. Male: head without yellowish–orange ventral coloration; metasoma dark brown, tergites 2-3 basally yellow, all metasomal tergites apically yellow margined; flagellum entirely dark brown, slenderer; metasoma hardly reaching beyond apex of hind tibia; otherwise similar to female. B 7.2; A 3.8; F 4.8.

Distribution.

Madagascar (Toamasina province) ( Heinrich 1938).