Epirhyssa shaka Rousse & van Noort, 2014 Figs 46-49

Material examined.

Type material: SOUTH AFRICA:

• 1 ♀, holotype; Natal, 2831 Dd Umlalazi Nat. Res., 1.5 km E of Mtunzini; 28°57'S, 31°45'E; Nov. 1978; R. M. Miller leg.; indigenous forest; Malaise trap; NMSA.

Known material: One specimen (1 ♀, see Rousse and van Noort 2014, data above).

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from other Afrotropical Rhyssinae by the combination of a low hypostomal flange, an elliptical apical horn of the metasoma, and a punctate (over 50% of surface) tergite 3.

Head: frons with median carinae converging before continuing towards median ocellus, without lateral carinae; hypostomal carina raised into a low flange, its height slightly less than or equivalent to the maximum width of the second maxillary palp segment.

Mesosoma: subalar prominence without a lateral flange; mesopleuron without a flange along the dorsal margin; epicnemial carina reaches the approximate height of the mesopleural pit.

Metasoma: tip of apical horn elliptical in posterior view; tergite 3 punctate.

Distribution.

South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).