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 mbama sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 5584F15B-A339-44E9-827F-5ECF671EBD94 Fig. 20 Diagnosis Moderately small; mostly black with metasoma mostly yellowish-orange from tergite 3; apex of femora pale dotted; face densely punctate, sculpture smoother on remainder of head; inner margins of eyes subparallel; clypeus transverse; malar line very short; antenna with 30 flagellomeres; mesosoma mostly coarsely punctate, including scutellum and entire speculum, pronotum hardly smoother postero-dorsally; propodeum with carination thick, area basalis petiolate; ovipositor moderately long, apically strongly sinuous. Male unknown. Differential diagnosis Moderately small and mostly black; differentiated from all other Pristomerus species by the combination of the very short malar line, the entirely punctate speculum and almost entirely sculptured pronotum, and the very weak female femoral tooth. It appears closely related to P. mbaka sp. nov. in which the scutellum is impunctate and the ovipositor is significantly shorter, apically straight. Type material Holotype GABON : ♀ , “ GABON , Prov. Ogooué–Maritime , Réserve de la Moukalaba–Dougoua , 12.2km 305°NW Doussala , 2°17.00’S 10°29.83’E , 110m , 28.ii.2000 , S. van Noort , Sweep, GA00–S18, Lowland Rainforest, forest margin along road, SAM–HYM–P041662” ( SAMC ). Description Female ( holotype ) B 6.0; A 3.6; F: 4.1; CT 1.8; ML 0.3; POL 0.5; OOL 0.8; Fl n-1 1.1 ; ASM 2.1; OT 1.6; FFT 1. COLOUR. Head black with mandible, palpi, clypeus, malar space and frontal orbits yellow to yellowishorange; mesosoma black; tergites 1–2 black, following tergites mostly yellowish-orange and centrally blackened; legs yellowish-orange with hind coxa black and hind femur testaceous-brown; all femora apically white dotted; wings hyaline, slightly infuscate apically, venation brown with pterostigma somewhat paler anteriorly. Fig. 20. Pristomerus mbama sp. nov. Holotype, ♀. A . Habitus, lateral view. B . Head, mesosoma, dorsal view. C . Head, anterior view. D . Propodeum, dorsal view. E . Mesosoma, lateral view. F . Hind tibia, lateral view (inset: data labels). HEAD. Face densely and deeply punctate, medially bulging; inner margins of eyes subparallel; clypeus transverse, mostly smooth but dorsal margin punctate, convex in profile view; malar line very short; frons and vertex finely and closely punctate-granulate; temple and occiput coriaceous; frons midlongitudinally weakly bulging; occipital carina joining hypostomal carina above mandible base; antenna with 30 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere barely elongate. MESOSOMA. Elongate; pronotum entirely sculptured, moderately punctate, anteriorly crenulate and posteriorly coriaceous; mesopleuron and metapleuron evenly, densely and deeply punctate with an oblique striate groove below speculum, speculum entirely punctate; mesoscutum densely and finely punctategranulate, punctures confluent into oblique rugosities along notaulus; notaulus moderate; scutellum densely punctate; propodeum densely punctate-granulate with area superomedia centrally smoother and area petiolaris transversely strigose; carination thick, area basalis petiolate, area superomedia elongate. Legs . Femoral tooth very weak though distinct. METASOMA. Tergite 2 and apical half of tergite 1 longitudinally aciculate, following tergites coriaceous; thyridium subelliptic, its main axis longitudinal; ovipositor moderately long, strongly sinuous apically. Male Unknown. Distribution Gabon .