Kibalus toro Rousse, van Noort & Diller

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 : 63-66

Kibalus toro Rousse, van Noort & Diller sp. n. Figs 37-39

Type material.

HOLOTYPE. Female: Uganda, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1523m, 0°33.836'N, 30°21.700'E, 4-26.viii.2008, S. van Noort, UG08 –KF8– Y07, yellow pan trap, primary mid–altitude rainforest SAM–HYM–P 044119 (SAMC). PARATYPES. 2 females: same data as holotype (SAMC); 1 female: same data as holotype except: 1495m, 0°33.871'N, 30°21.355'E, UG08 –KF2– Y03, secondary mid–altitude rainforest, SAM–HYM–P 046314 (SAMC); 1 male: same data as holotype except: 1582m, 0°33.823'N, 30°21.490'E, 2-12. viii. 2008, UG08 –KF3– M03, Malaise trap, SAM–HYM–P 044121 (SAMC); 1 female: Uganda Budongo Forest, 7.ii.1935. F.W. Edwards, B.M. E. Afr. Exp. B. M. 1935-203 (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

Head mainly black, mesosoma yellow and dark brown, metasoma dark brown with apices of tergites 2-7 yellow; head and mesosoma almost entirely deeply and densely punctate to punctate–reticulate, tergite 1 smooth, following tergites finely punctate; propodeum without longitudinal carina, transverse carinae present, but incomplete. HdWi 1.4; HfWi 1.1; Ci 1.8; Mi 0.2; Di 4.0; IOi 1.0; OOi 1.0; Fli1 5.9, Fli15 1.0, Fli28 1.8; OTi 0.2.

Description.

FEMALE (5 specimens). B 5.1-6.2; A 3.8-4.4; F 3.5-3.9 (Holotype B 5.1; A 3.8; F 3.5).

Color. Head black with clypeus somewhat dark testaceous, mandible, palpi, scape and pedicel yellow, flagellum basally yellowish and progressively infuscate, totally fuscous from flagellomere 4, one female specimen with a pale yellow ring on flagellomeres 4-8; mesosoma mostly light testaceous to reddish–testaceous, with black markings of variable extent dorsally, markings absent in one female; legs pale testaceous with tibiae and tarsi sometimes darker; wings hyaline with venation light brown; tergite 1 testaceous to dark brown, following tergites testaceous, more or less extensively dark brown medially, apical margins yellow; thyridium yellow.

Head. Shining, almost entirely densely and deeply punctate, punctures somewhat confluent into transverse striations on frons and upper face, punctation much finer and sparser on clypeus and mandible; vertex long and slightly convex behind ocelli; ocellar triangle slightly wider than high; antenna with 25-29 flagellomeres.

Mesosoma. Slightly elongate, entirely shining, deeply punctate–reticulate with posterior half of propodeum scaly–reticulate; notaulus absent; propodeum with carination fairly reduced: basal transverse carina nearly absent but two median stubs present, apical transverse carina present though medially obsolete.

Metasoma. Tergite 1 polished and smooth; tergite 2 and following finely punctate–reticulate; gastrocoelus within anterior 2/5 of tergite 2, thyridium transverse, about twice as wide as long, inter–thyridiae interval as long as thyridium width; ovipositor straight, sheath densely setose.

MALE (1 specimen). B 5.4; A4.5; F 3.6. Mesosoma dark brown and pronotum yellowish; otherwise similar to female.

Etymology.

Named after the Toro Kingdom, the region of western Uganda where this species was collected. Noun in apposition.

Distribution.

Uganda.