Dicaelotus tablemountainensis
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Dicaelotus
Name
Dicaelotus tablemountainensis Rousse & van Noort sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
HOLOTYPE. Female: South Africa, W. Cape, Cape Town, abov. Tokai Forest, Constantiaberge, above Donkerboskloof, 460 m altitude, 34 02S 18 23.5E, 9–15 Feb 1994, S. van Noort, mesic mountain fynbos on sandstone, Protea coronata dominated, sweep SAM–HYM–P006392 (SAMC). PARATYPE 1 female: Cape Town, Table Mt., K. Barnard, Feb. 1919, SAM–HYM–P005531 (SAMC).
Diagnosis
Mostly reddish interspersed with black and yellow markings; entire body shining; head sparsely to densely punctate; face distinctly protruding medially; mesosoma coarsely punctate or strigose laterally, more finely punctate dorsally; mesoscutum without differentiated lobes; hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu1 fully pigmented; propodeal carination complete but costula faint; metasomal tergites 1–3 densely and shallowly punctate, following tergites alutaceous. HdWi 2.4; HfWi 1.1; Ci 2.3; Mi 0.8; Di 1.3; IOi 1.8; OOi 1.2; Fli1 1.8; Fli15 1.0; Fli28 0.8; OTi 0.3. Male unknown.
Description
FEMALE (2 specimens). B 5.8–6.1; A 3. 6–3.7; F 3.7–3.9 (Holotype B 5.8; A 3.6; F 3.7).
Color. Head black with eye margin (except on temple) yellow, clypeus, mandible and palpi reddish, and flagellum tri–colored: basal half dark brown, apical half testaceous, flagellomeres 9–12 white; mesosoma reddish with a yellow longitudinal stripe on lateral part of pronotum, and black parts: remaining of pronotum, subtegular ridge and axillar furrows around scutellum and post–scutellum; wings hyaline, venation light brown; legs reddish with hind tibia and hind coxa largely infuscate; metasoma reddish with tergites 6–7 and extreme base of tergite 1 blackish.
Head. Shining; face transverse, densely punctate, medially protruding into a blunt square tubercle connected to antennal socket by a short transverse carina; clypeus lenticular, transverse, sparsely punctate; malar line moderately long, subocular sulcus present as a granulate groove; mandibles sparsely punctate, moderately long, regularly narrowed toward apex; frons, vertex and temple finely and sparsely punctate; ocellar triangle wider than high; antenna stout with 28–29 flagellomeres.
Mesosoma. Entirely shining; pronotum longitudinally strigose but upper third moderately punctate; mesopleuron densely punctate but posterior margin costulate, speculum smooth, sternaulus deep at anterior third; epicnemial carina ventrally moderate; postpectal carina ventrally absent; metapleuron transversely strigose–punctate, dorsally smooth; mesonotum finely and moderately punctate, notaulus hardly visible near base; scutellum flat, not carinate; propodeum punctate–rugose but area petiolaris transversally striate, carination complete and strong except costula partly obsolete, area superomediaelongate, pentagonal. Wings. Hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu1 fully pigmented, connected to 1/Cu&cu–a, cu–a nearly 3× shorter than 1/Cu. Legs. Stout and densely punctate; hind femur and hind tibia somewhat swollen.
Metasoma. Shining; metasomal tergites 1–3 densely and shallowly punctate, following tergites alutaceous; ovipositor straight and moderately long.
MALE. Unknown.
Etymology
Named in honour of the Table Mountain National Park, to which the type locality belongs. In 1503, a Portuguese explorer, Antonio de Saldanha, climbed and named the mountain Taboa do Cabo (= Table of the Cape). Subsequently the mountain became known as Tafelberg (= Table Mountain) to the first European Dutch settlers of the Cape who arrived in 1652.
Distribution
South Africa (Western Cape).
Discussion
cf. Dicaelotus hoerikwaggoensis Rousse & van Noort, sp. n.
Original Description
- Rousse, P; van Noort, S; Diller, E; 2013: Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species ZooKeys, 354: 1-85. doi
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