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afer Konow, 1899
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<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">Pampsilota afer</taxonomicName>
Konow, 1899: 76-77. Described: female [syntype females; lectotype designated below]. Type locality: Kamerun [Cameroon].
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
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var.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
<normalizedToken originalValue="maynéi">maynei</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
Forsius, 1928: 234. Described: Female [holotype and paratype]. Type locality: Congo Belge [Democratic Republic of the Congo], Bena Bedi. Synonymy with
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">Pampsilota afer</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation author="Pasteels, J" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="1 - 123" refId="B29" refString="Pasteels, J, 1953. Prodromes d'une faune des Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera) de l'Afrique noire 1. Argidae. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 26: 1 - 123" title="Prodromes d'une faune des Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera) de l'Afrique noire 1. Argidae." volume="26" year="1953">Pasteels (1953</bibRefCitation>
: 115-116).
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Female.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
Figures
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">4-7</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3844" captionStartId="F13" captionText="Figures 38 - 44. Pampsilota afer ♀: 38. Dark form, dorsal; 39 - 40. Pale form, dorsal / lateral. 41 - 44. Pampsilota africanus. 41 - 42. ♀ (LT), dorsal / lateral; 43 - 44. ♂, dorsal / lateral. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures38-44" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118809" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">38-40</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Figures 4-8.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">4.</emphasis>
Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">5.</emphasis>
Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">6.</emphasis>
Lancet;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">7.</emphasis>
Serrulae 11-13;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">8.</emphasis>
Penis valve (left, lateral aspect).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Head, thorax and legs black with blue metallic lustre. Wings strongly infuscate, intercostal area fuscous; substigmal spot inconspicuous; stigma, costa, subcosta and rest of venation black. Abdomen black with blue metallic lustre; at least terga 9/10 and ovipositor sheath yellow-orange.</paragraph>
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Head enlarged behind eyes. Antenna 1.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as long as maximum head width; flagellum enlarged towards apex, quadrangular in cross section, interior surface with sharply compressed longitudinal carina, other longitudinal carinae conspicuously more weakly compressed. Interior margins of eyes parallel-sided. Anterior margin of the clypeus circularly emarginate, supraclypeal area gently rounded and protruding up to ventral limit of interantennal carinae. Interantennal carinae obtusely ridged, strongly converging below, extending to the level of ventral margin of torulus. Frons, supraclypeal area and clypeus rugosely sculptured or densely punctate, weakly shiny, vertex and gena sparsely micropunctate, shiny; pubescence light brown. Metatibia distally conspicuously laterally compressed. Mesoscutum nearly impunctate, shiny; pubescence similar to that on head. Abdomen smooth and shiny. Valvulae 3: Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">4</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">5</figureCitation>
. Lancet with about 24-25 serrulae: Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">6</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">7</figureCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="6" start="start">Length</pageBreakToken>
: 10.5-15.3 mm.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Male.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Figure
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">8</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Similarly coloured to female, only tergum 8 and sterna 6-9 yellow-orange. Head very slightly narrowed behind eyes. Antenna 1.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as long as maximum head width; flagellum not enlarged towards apex, quadrangular in cross section, flattened apically, interior surface with sharply compressed longitudinal carina, other longitudinal carinae more weakly compressed. Supraclypeal area scarcely protruding up to base of interantennal carinae. Interantennal carinae extending about one quarter of way to clypeus. Other characters as for female. Penis valve: Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 48" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 4 - 8. Pampsilota afer: 4. Valvulae 3 (lateral aspect); 5. Valvulae 3 (dorsal aspect); 6. Lancet; 7. Serrulae 11 - 13; 8. Penis valve (left, lateral aspect)." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figures4-8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118790" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">8</figureCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Length: 10.3 mm.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="type material">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Type material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: Lectotype, hereby designated: ♀. Labels:
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(red);
<normalizedToken originalValue="“Kamerun”">&quot;Kamerun&quot;</normalizedToken>
; &quot;Coll. Konow&quot;; &quot;Coll. DEI, Eberswalde&quot;, &quot;
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Knw., Kamerun&quot;; &quot;GBIF-GISHym, 2869&quot;; &quot;Lectotypus,
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
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Konow ♀, des.: F. Koch, 2016&quot; (red) (SDEI). Paralectotype: 1 ♀. &quot;Sierra Leone&quot;, &quot;Coll. Konow&quot;, &quot;Coll. DEI, Eberswalde&quot;, &quot;GBIF -GISHym, 2870&quot; (SDEI).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
var.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<normalizedToken originalValue="maynéi">maynei</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
: Paratype: 1 ♀. Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bena Bedi, V.[19]15, R.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Mayné">Mayne</normalizedToken>
(UZMT).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Other material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1908-06" collectingDateMax="1936-03" collectingDateMin="1908-06" collectorName="Luluabourg, P, J. Ghesquiere, R. R. Soeurs du Carmel, L. Conradt, G. Tessmann" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" location="Sankuru" municipality="Komi" specimenCount="16" specimenCount-female="14" specimenCount-male="2">
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">7 ♀♀</specimenCount>
.
<collectingCountry name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</collectingCountry>
:
<collectorName>Luluabourg, P</collectorName>
. Janssens (
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (RBINS);
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:8CF7B050BEBDFC66300161A29579D214:E914F9F0618D9C67575B08020F180C65" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" municipality="Komi" name="Sankuru">Sankuru</location>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Komi</collectingMunicipality>
,
<collectingDate value="1930-03">III.1930</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName>
J.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ghesquière">Ghesquiere</normalizedToken>
</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
); Eala,
<collectingDate value="1936-03">III.1936</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName>
J.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ghesquière">Ghesquiere</normalizedToken>
</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (MRAC); Kabwe, Luluabourg, 1937,
<collectorName>R. R. Soeurs du Carmel</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
) (MRAC); Fulubwe, sur herbes viv., E[lisabeth]' Ville, 27.XII.[19]55 (
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (MRAC).
<collectingCountry name="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</collectingCountry>
: Fernando-Po, 1901,
<collectorName>L. Conradt</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (MNCN); Makom, Alcu., Benitogbt.,16.-31.XII.[19]06,
<collectorName>G. Tessmann</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (MFN); Uelleburg,
<collectingDate value="1908-06" valueMax="1908-08-31" valueMin="1908-06-00">VI.-VIII.1908</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName>G. Tessmann</collectorName>
(
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
) (ZSM)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 36" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 36. Distribution map for Pampsilota afer, Pampsilota africanus, Pampsilota brandbergensis, and Pampsilota dahomeyanus." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.64.10800.figure36" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/118804" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">36</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
By its large size and distinctive coloration (infuscate wings; black body and legs, with only abdomen apically pale),
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is easily distinguished from all other
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
The coloration of the abdomen varies from the described typical (darker) form to the apical half of the abdomen yellow-orange with terga 5/6 medially more or less black. In these pale specimens sterna 2-4 are basally yellow-orange. This form with a more or less entirely yellow-orange apical half of abdomen was described under the name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
var.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<normalizedToken originalValue="maynéi">maynei</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
Forsius, 1928. Other morphological differences to the nominate form are not detectable. The holotype (MRAC) of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
var.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<normalizedToken originalValue="maynéi">maynei</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
was not examined, but the paratype seems to have been collected on the same date and at the same place as the holotype, and there is no reason to doubt that the specimens are conspecific.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<bibRefCitation author="Pasteels, J" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="1 - 123" refId="B29" refString="Pasteels, J, 1953. Prodromes d'une faune des Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera) de l'Afrique noire 1. Argidae. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 26: 1 - 123" title="Prodromes d'une faune des Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera) de l'Afrique noire 1. Argidae." volume="26" year="1953">Pasteels (1953)</bibRefCitation>
first described the male of
<taxonomicName authority="Konow, 1899" authorityName="Konow" authorityYear="1899" class="Insecta" family="Argidae" genus="Pampsilota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pampsilota afer" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="afer">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pampsilota afer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and misleadingly referred to the specimen as the allotype (MRAC).
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