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Macrotarsipodes pedunculata Bartsch & Sáfián 2022, comb. nov.

  • 1. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart.
  • 2. African Natural History Research Trust Street Court, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR 6 9 QA, UK.

Description

Macrotarsipodes pedunculata (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov. (Ichneumenoptera)

(Figs 34–36, 46)

Ichneumenoptera pedunculata: Hampson 1910: 155.

Sphecosesia brachyptera: Hampson 1919: 77; unnecessary replacement name; Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 119; Gaede 1929: 527; Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 44.

Tipulamima pedunculata: Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 33.

Type material examined. Holotype ♂ (Fig. 34): Gold Coast [Ghana], Ashanti, Obuasi, [Label: 20. March 1906, W. M.] Graham leg. (NHMUK); with labels: “Ashanti. Obuasi. / 20.III.1956 / W.M.Graham. / 1907-74”; “ Ichneumenoptera pedunculata / type ♂. Hmpsn.”; “Type / H.T.”.

Further specimens. 1♂, 13.Jan.1993 (Bartsch GU 2007-20) (Fig. 46); 1♂, 21.Jan.1993; 1♂, 26.Jan.1993; 2♂, 27.Jan.1993; 1♂, 29.Jan.1993; 1♂, 23.Feb.1993, all specimens: W-Africa, Nigeria, Ile-Ife, 280m, leg. L. Schlimm; 1♂, Cameroon, SW-Region, Mt. Cameroon, Buea, Ekonjo, 04°03'49.2"N, 09°09'18.8"E, 600-650 m, 19.Oct.2011, pheromone (SMNS). 1♂, Ghana, Ashanti Region, Bonkro village community guesthouse, 7.Oct.2019, at pheromone, leg. D. Bartsch & Sz. Sáfián; 1♂ (Figs 35–36), Ghana, Central Region, Gyawale private forest near Kakum NP, 16.Oct.2019, at pheromone, leg. D. Bartsch & Sz. Sáfián (CDB), 1♂ Guinea, Nimba Mountains, Cité 1 (SMFG concession area), 07°42'02.83"N, 08°23'58.60"W, 700 m, at mixed pheromone lure bundle, 3.Sept.2017, leg. Sz. Sáfián & G. Simonics (ANHRT).

This West African species occurs in the lowlands from Guinea in the west to Cameroon in the east. Some unspecifically attracted males came around noon to artificial pheromones originally composed for western Palearctic Sesiidae species.

Notes

Published as part of Bartsch, Daniel & Sáfián, Szabolcs, 2022, Taxonomic changes and review of the genera Tipulamima Holland, 1893 and Macrotarsipodes Le Cerf, 1916 stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Sesiinae), pp. 103-128 in Zootaxa 5094 (1) on pages 121-122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5964921

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