Pristomerus keyka Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig 2013
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 keyka Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013
Fig. 15
Diagnosis (updated from Rousse et al. 2013)
Small; pale yellow to testaceous orange with very variable dark markings on inter-ocellar area, around scutellum and on metasoma; flagellum dark brown, basally yellow; face shallowly punctate; inner margins of eyes subparallel; clypeus smooth, strongly transverse; malar line moderately long; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina shortly above mandible base; antenna short with 23–27 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere subquadrate; mesosoma moderately elongate, laterally densely and shallowly punctate-granulate including most of speculum but pronotum dorsally smooth, mesoscutum coriaceous with some punctures along notaulus, scutellum almost smooth; propodeum with area superomedia often weakly delimited laterally beyond anterior transverse carina; female femoral tooth small, followed by minute denticles; ovipositor long, its apex weakly sinuous. B 4.5–4.9; A 2.3–2.5; F 2.4–2.8; CT 2.2; ML 0.6; POL 1.0; OOL 1.3; Fl n–1 1.1; ASM 1.8; OT 1.8–2.0; FFT 1. Male with inner margins of eyes diverging ventrally, ocelli strongly enlarged, hind femur and femoral tooth stouter, scutellum quite smooth. POL 0.6; OOL 0.3.
Differential diagnosis
Small and mostly yellowish with variable dark dorsal markings; differentiated from all other Afrotropical species by the combination of the short antenna (basally yellow fading to dark brown), the mesoscutum coriaceous with only few punctures along the notaulus, the strongly transverse clypeus and the short female femoral tooth.
Material examined
Holotype
MADAGASCAR: ♀, “ MADAGASCAR, Mahajanga Province, Parc Nat Namoraka, 16°28’S, 45°20’E, November 2002 colls Fisher, Griswold et al., in tropical dry forest, California Academy of Sciences ” (CASC).
Paratype
MADAGASCAR: ♀, same label data, EY 0000002493 (MNHN).
Other material
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 1 ♀, “Elisabethville [Lubumbashi] (A la lumière [attracted to light]) I.1960 Ch. Seydel” (MRAC); 1 ♂, “South Africa c. 25 km W Pretoria along R–514 11–1–1995 K. W. R. Zwart” (SANC).
Distribution
Madagascar. New records: Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CASC
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Pristomerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig
- Species
- keyka
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pristomerus keyka Rousse, 2013 sec. Rousse & Noort, 2015
References
- Rousse P., Villemant C. & Seyrig A. 2013. Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. VI. The genus Pristomerus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 49: 1 - 38. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2013.49