Anamalysia van Achterberg gen. nov.

Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Type species.

Anamalysia idiastimorpha van Achterberg, sp. nov.

Etymology.

From "Anamala (or Anaimala) Hills" (the type locality) and the generic name Alysia Latreille, 1804. Anamala or Anaimalai Mountains, also known as the Elephant Mountains, are a range of mountains in the southern Western Ghats of central Kerala (India). Gender: feminine.

Diagnosis.

Fourth antennal segment 1.1-1.4 times longer than third segment; clypeus rectangularly narrowed ventrally, triangular in dorsal view and with acute ventral apex (Figs 1B, 6B) to round ventral apex (Figs 2B, 3H, 4B, 5F, 8B); area between antennal socket and eye with a narrow groove (Figs 1B, 6B, D, 8B, E); face distinctly sculptured, distinctly transverse and without medio-ventral grooves (Figs 1B, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B); mandible strongly widened apically and partly sculptured, lateral teeth wide lobe-shaped and second tooth short (Figs 1H, 2E, 3C, G, 4C, 5D, E, 6C, 8G, H); anterior tentorial pits small, far removed from eye; pronope deep and medium-sized to large (Figs 1C, 8D); notauli complete; precoxal sulcus widely crenulate medially and posteriorly narrow or absent; postpectal carina absent; metanotum often distinctly protruding dorsally; vein 2-SR of fore wing 0.9-1.2 times vein 3-SR (for A. vandervechti, 2-SR of fore wing 0.5 times vein 3-SR); vein SR1 of fore wing 2.0-2.7 times as long as vein 3-SR (for A. vandervechti, vein SR1 of fore wing 0.8 times as long as vein 3-SR); vein r of fore wing much longer than wide; vein m-cu of interstitial or postfurcal; first subdiscal cell of fore wing narrow (Figs 1A, 2D, 3A, 4G, 5A, 8A); vein 3-CU1 of fore wing distinctly longer than vein CU1b (Figs 1A, 2D, 3A, 4G, 5A, 6A, 8A), but slightly shorter in A. vandervechti (Fig. 6A); marginal cell of hind wing medium-sized, subparallel-sided; vein 1r-m of hind wing 0.6-0.8 times as long as vein 1- M; vein M+CU of hind wing distinctly longer than vein 1-M; vein m-cu of hind wing distinct, in type species largely sclerotised; tarsal claws rather robust (Figs 1F, 3D); length of first metasomal tergite 1.0-1.4 times its apical width; dorsope present; ovipositor sheath with long erect setae and apically rounded, no apical spine (Figs 1L, 5B), setose part of sheath about 0.4-0.7 times as long as fore wing.

Synonymy.

Alysiasta Wharton, 1980 sensu Fischer (2006) (partly, not type species); Coelalysia Cameron, 1911 sensu Fischer (1988) (partly, not type species).

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental.

Notes.

The shape of the clypeus is similar to that of the Afrotropical genus Coelalysia Cameron, 1911, but Coelalysia lacks a complete groove between the antennal socket and the eye, has the dorsope absent or small, the face is largely smooth and strongly transverse, vein M+CU of the hind wing is distinctly shorter than vein 1-M and vein CU1b of fore wing is about as long as vein 3-CU1 or longer, scutellar sulcus about half as long as scutellum, middle tooth of mandible long and mesosternal sulcus narrowly crenulate posteriorly. Coelalysia urbana (Papp, 1967) is excluded from the genus Coelalysia and fits well in Anamalysia, together with Alysiasta triangulum Fischer, 2006 (comb. nov.) and might be the senior synonym of the latter.