Pristomerus bullis Fitton in Polaszek 1994
Creators
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
Description
Pristomerus bullis Fitton in Polaszek et al., 1994
Fig. 6
Pristomerus bullis Fitton in Polaszek et al., 1994: 83.
Diagnosis
Moderately sized; yellow to orange overall with base of tergite 2 infuscate, frons darker than face, and notaulus and scutellum lighter than remainder of mesonotum; face densely punctate; inner eye margins parallel; clypeus very strongly transverse, sparsely punctate with inter-punctures space smooth; malar line short; frons and vertex punctate-granulate, gena and temple coriaceous; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina shortly above mandible base; antenna with 26–32 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere shorter than wide; mesosoma strongly elongate, mostly very densely punctate but dorsal half of pronotum and ventral half of speculum smooth; propodeum with area superomedia narrow and elongate; hind femur rather stout; femoral tooth stout, about half as high as basally wide, followed by minute denticles; ovipositor rather short, apically moderately sinuous. B 7.3–8.3; A 3.5–4.0; F 4.0–4.7; CT 2.2–2.5; ML 0.3; POL 1.0; OOL 1.3; Fl n–1 0.7; ASM 2.8; OT 1.3; FFT 1. Male with inner margins of eyes diverging ventrally, ocelli, hind femur and femoral tooth enlarged, and mesoscutum strongly smoother; otherwise similar to female. POL 0.5; OOL 0.4.
Differential diagnosis
Moderately sized and yellow to orange overall; differentiated from most other Afrotropical species by the very transverse clypeus. It is thus apparently closely related to P. babinga sp. nov. but P. bullis has a significantly shorter ovipositor.
Material examined
Holotype
TANZANIA: ♀, “ TANZANIA: Morogoro region, Mkindo. G. Bianchi, i.1991 /5, 5.8, ex Maliarpha seperatella [sic] in Rice, B.M. Type Hym 3B.2473” (BMNH).
Other material
UGANDA: 1 ♀, “Uganda, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1465 m, 0°35.442’N 30°21.741’E, 10.viii.2008, S. van Noort, UG 08–KF12–S03, Sweep, primary mid-altitude rainforest, near stream, SAM–HYM–P047402” (SAMC).
ZAMBIA: 1 ♂, “Zambia, nr Mfuwe sweeping on the dried egg tree 09.XII.2011 Gumovsky; Mopane tree [Colophospermum mopane, Fabaceae] SAM–HYM–P049439” (SAMC).
Host records
Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).
Distribution
Tanzania. New records: Uganda, Zambia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Pristomerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fitton in Polaszek
- Species
- bullis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pristomerus bullis in, 1994 sec. Rousse & Noort, 2015
References
- Polaszek A., Fitton M. G., Bianchi G. & Huddleston T. 1994. The parasitoids of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 84 (1): 65 - 90. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300032247