Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species
Author
Rousse, Pascal
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Natural History Department, Iziko South African Museum, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa. & Stellenbosch University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Evolutionary Genomics Group, Private Bag X 1, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa. & Email: rousse. pascal @ wanadoo. fr (corresponding author) & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: B 06 C 2640 - 700 A- 429 B-AA 2 F- 1 BE 09251 C 845
rousse.pascal@wanadoo.fr
Author
Noort, Simon van
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Natural History Department, Iziko South African Museum, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa. & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 7 CCD 166 F-F 1 FA- 43 DA-B 582 - 4 E 84 EAF 59 AD 1
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2015
2015-05-28
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Pristomerus moramora
Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013
Fig. 23
Diagnosis
(ranges from
Rousse
et al.
2013
)
Small to moderately small; background colour yellowish-orange with dark testaceous to black markings of variable extent on mesosoma and metasoma, frons darker than face, and notaulus and scutellum most often lighter than remainder of mesonotum; face moderately to densely punctate; inner margins of eyes weakly converging ventrally; clypeus transverse, shallowly and sparsely punctate; malar line very short; remainder of head sparsely punctate-granulate to coriaceous; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina distinctly above mandible base; antenna with 27–29 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere quadrate; mesosoma elongate, densely, deeply and evenly punctate except pronotum almost entirely smooth and speculum ventrally smooth; area superomedia relatively stout to elongate; female femoral tooth absent; ovipositor long, weakly sinuous apically. B 3.5–4.3; A 2.4–3.2; F 2.8–3.5; CT 2.0; ML 0.3; POL 1.0; OOL 1.2; Fl
n–1
1.0
;
ASM
1.7–2.5; OT 1.7–1.8; FFT 0. Male with ocelli hardly enlarged, hind femur and femoral tooth stouter, otherwise similar to female. B 3.4–4.5; A 2.2–3.2; F 2.5–3.5; POL 1.0; OOL 1.0.
Differential diagnosis
Small species from
Madagascar
; differentiated from most other Afrotropical species by the absence of the femoral tooth in females, the very short malar line, the strongly transverse clypeus and the long ovipositor. It is closely related to
P. kelikely
and
P. venda
sp. nov.
, from which it may differentiated by the colour and antenna length characters given in the key (see comments on
P. kelikely
).
Material examined
Holotype
MADAGASCAR
:
♀
, “
MADAGASCAR
,
Bekily
[
Ampandrandava
], reg. sud de l’île,
IX 1938
, EY 0000002495” (
MNHN
).
Distribution
Madagascar
.