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 restio sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1FD99527-2A70-4236-8FCD-F8F0C031AB7F Fig. 29 Diagnosis Small; head yellowish, medially, dorsally and posteriorly black; mesosoma mostly black with legs yellowish; metasoma mostly testaceous-brown; head densely and finely punctate-granulate, dorsally coriaceous; clypeus transverse; malar line long; ocelli reduced, widely separated; antenna with 28 flagellomeres, penultimate one distinctly elongate; entire mesosoma densely and finely rugose punctate, except pronotum centrally smoother; area superomedia stout and area petiolaris concave; fore wing with 2m-cu weakly apical to 2rs-m; female femoral tooth absent; ovipositor moderately short, evenly up-curved, apically swollen and down-curved but not sinuous. Male unknown. Differential diagnosis See P. protea sp. nov. Etymology Refers to another one of the most emblematic flowers of the Cape Floral Kingdom. Noun in apposition. Type material Holotype SOUTH AFRICA : ♀ , “ SOUTH AFRICA , W. Cape , Koeberg Nature Reserve , 33°37.622’S 18°24.259’E , 20 Mar–17 April 1998 , S. van Noort , Malaise trap , KO98–M29, West Coast Strandveld , SAM–HYM– P047408” ( SAMC ). Description Female ( holotype ) B 3.9; A 2.8; F: 2.8; CT 1.7; ML 0.8; POL 2.1; OOL 1.5; Fl n-1 1.3 ; ASM 1.5; OT 1.4; FFT 0. COLOUR. Head yellowish with frons, vertex and occiput black; mesosoma black with pronotum largely yellowish; metasoma testaceous-brown with tergites 1–2 blackened; antenna basally yellowish, fading to testaceous from flagellomere 3–4; legs yellow with hind coxa darker brown; wings hyaline, venation pale yellowish with pterostigma basally whitish. HEAD. Face and clypeus finely and very densely punctate-granulate; inner margins of eyes weakly convergent ventrally; clypeus transverse; malar line long; frons, vertex and temple deeply coriaceous; ocelli strongly reduced, subcircular, remote from each other; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina distinctly above mandible base; antenna thin with 28 flagellomeres, penultimate one distinctly elongate. MESOSOMA. Mesosoma moderately stout; entire mesosoma finely and very densely punctate-granulate, including entire speculum, except pronotum centrally smoother and somewhat crenulate anteroventrally; notaulus weak; area superomedia shortly elongate, fully delimited, area petiolaris concave and transversely strigose. Wings . Fore wing with 2m-cu unusually close to 2rs-m, 2rs-m twice as long as section of M between 2rs-m and 2m-cu. Legs . Female femoral tooth absent. METASOMA. Tergite 2 and apical half of tergite 1 aciculate, following tergites coriaceous; thyridium small, subcircular; ovipositor moderately short, evenly up-curved, apically swollen and slightly downcurved but not sinuous. Male Unknown. Distribution South Africa . Comments See P. protea sp. nov.