Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species Author Rousse, Pascal B06C2640-700A-429B-AA2F-1BE09251C845 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 7CCD166F-F1FA-43DA-B582-4E84EAF59AD1 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 text European Journal of Taxonomy 2015 2015-05-28 124 1 129 journal article 22420 10.5852/ejt.2015.124 19721b2c-e043-4635-a299-6b1517b4e649 2118-9773 3780218 8E33A9C0-0940-4EF8-8105-7B71D9282635 Pristomerus sotho sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D7109E59-7B2D-4F89-9E55-347D23E52A40 Fig. 35 Diagnosis Moderately large; mostly reddish-orange with entire head, mesosoma ventrally and tergites 1–2 black; face and clypeus densely punctate with unusually dense silver hairs; clypeus transverse; malar line long; mesosoma densely and evenly punctate, with pronotum centrally coriaceous and speculum ventrally smoother; femoral tooth strong; ovipositor short, apically moderately sinuous. Male unknown. Differential diagnosis Moderately sized, black and reddish-orange species; readily differentiated from every other Afrotropical species by the unique colour pattern, with most of the head and mesosoma ventrally black, the remainder of the mesosoma being reddish-orange; also characteristic because of the combination of the densely hairy face and mandibles, the short ovipositor, the strong female femoral tooth and the punctate scutellum. Type material Holotype SOUTH AFRICA : ♀ , “SA KZN [ Kwazulu-Natal ] Kamberg F57 29.3767°S 29.67108°E 1967m Forest Malaise 2 13-Jan–2006 III-UKZN MDTP 66029, SAM–HYM–P047100” ( SAMC ). Description Female ( holotype ) B 1.3; A n/a; F 0.9; CT 1.7; ML 0.7; POL 0.8; OOL 1.0; Fl n-1 n/a; ASM 2.2; OT 1.2; FFT 2. COLOUR. Head including antenna black with clypeus reddish-orange and mandible yellow; mesosoma dorsally reddish-orange, ventrally black; metasoma with tergites 1–2 black, following tergites reddishorange, medially blackened; legs orange with base and apex of hind tibia and hind femur blackened; wings hyaline, venation brown. Fig. 35. Pristomerus sotho sp. nov. Holotype, ♀. A . Habitus, lateral view (inset: data labels). B . Head, mesosoma, dorsal view. C . Head, anterior view. D . Propodeum, dorsal view. E . Mesosoma, lateral view. F . Hind tibia, lateral view. HEAD. Face and clypeus densely punctate with very dense silver hairs obscuring most of sculpture; mandible also unusually hairy; inner margins of eyes parallel; clypeus transverse, punctation ventrally smoother; malar line long; frons and vertex sparsely punctate-granulate; temple coarsely coriaceous; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina distinctly above mandible base; both antennae broken. MESOSOMA. Mesosoma moderately elongate; pronotum entirely sculptured, moderately densely punctate with a median coriaceous area; mesopleuron and metapleuron densely, deeply and evenly punctate, with an oblique striate furrow below speculum, ventral half of speculum smoother; mesoscutum densely and evenly punctate; notaulus moderate; scutellum densely punctate; propodeum densely and roughly punctate, punctures sometimes confluent into rugosities, area superomedia elongate, area petiolaris transversely strigose. Legs . Femoral tooth strong and apically lamellar, followed by a row of hardly distinct denticles. METASOMA. Tergite 2, apical half of tergite 1 and base of tergite 3 aciculate; following tergites coriaceous; thyridium sub-circular; ovipositor short, apically moderately sinuous. Male Unknown. Distribution South Africa .