Cryptopimpla kogelbergensis Reynolds Berry & van Noort

Berry, Terry Reynolds & van Noort, Simon, 2016, Review of Afrotropical Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species, ZooKeys 640, pp. 103-137 : 120-121

Cryptopimpla kogelbergensis Reynolds Berry & van Noort sp. n. Fig. 5

Material examined.

HOLOTYPE ♀: South Africa, Western Cape, Kogelberg Nature Reserve, 34°16.481'S, 19°01.033'E, 118m, 16 May - 16 June 1999, S. van Noort, KO98-M23, Malaise trap, Mesic Mountain Fynbos, last burnt c. 1988, SAM-HYM-P047475 (SAMC). Paratypes: ♀: South Africa, Western Cape, Gamkaberg Nature Reserve, 33°39.504'S, 21°54.947'E, 322m, 30 March 2010 - 24 July 2010, S. van Noort, GB09-SUC04-M38, Malaise trap, Gamka thicket, SAM-HYM-P044551 (SAMC). 2♀: South Africa, Northern Cape, Hantam National Botanical Garden, 31°24.182'S, 19°08.587'E, 22 May - 23 July 2008, S. van Noort, GL07-REN3-M38, 741m, Malaise trap, Nieuwoudtville Shale Renosterveld, SAM-HYM-P047463 (SAMC, BMNH). ♂ South Africa, Western Cape, Gamkaberg Nature Reserve, 33°43.745'S, 21°56.922'E, 1000m, 10 Sept - 4 Nov 2009, S. van Noort, GB09-REN1-Y38, Yellow pan trap, Renosterveld, SAM-HYM-P061546 (SAMC).

Description.

Body subpolished. Colour. Head white with a median brown band on the face and brown spots at tentorial pits. Mesoscutum brown dorsolaterally and anteromedially; medially fulvous basad of black colouration; grey or cream stripes medially, extending about 0.8 length of mesoscutum. Mesosoma colour combination brown, white and black; dorsally mostly brown, ventrally black, laterally white. Scutellum and mesonotum black dorsolaterally, testaceous medially. Propodeum mostly brown to yellowish testaceous, black anteriorly. Legs, antennae and metasoma yellowish testaceous with variable dark markings on terga.

Head. Smooth, impunctate. Frons unarmed. Setae on head and clypeus short and sparse. Flagellum tapered to a slender apex. Clypeus profile distinctly convex and bulbous. Clypeus edge convex. Upper tooth of mandible longer than the lower tooth. Tentorial pits large and distinct. Eye in lateral view 0.74-0.76 times as broad as long, maximum width in anterior view 0.6-0.63 times shortest inter-ocular distance.

Mesosoma. Mesosocutum moderately punctate. Scuto-scutellar groove broad. Epicnemial carinae present ventrally and dorsally, dorsally converging toward anterior edge of mesopleuron. Propodeum with anterior margin medially straight, but may have a blunt medial projection; carination include pleural carinae and a well-defined posterior transverse carina. Wings hyaline. Fore wing with two bullae closely situated appearing as one or separated; vein 2m-cu straight; areolet anteriorly truncate-shaped. Hind wing with one or two basal hamuli and six to seven distal hamuli.

Metasoma. Depressed; tergum 1 with dorsolateral carinae substituted with longitudinal wrinkles, impunctate, posterior margin weakly convex; second tergum 0.96-1 times as long as wide, spiracle situated at basal 0.21-0.23 of tergum (measured in lateral view), gastrocoeli small to indistinct; tergum 6 half as wide as tergum 5; hypopygium moderately sclerotized. Ovipositor upcurved; sheath striations present.

CT 1.9-2.0; ML 1.2; IO 2.0; OO 1.3; Fl1 5.1-6.1; OT 0.5-0.7; body length 4.2-5.6 mm; antenna length 6.3-6.5 mm; fore wing length 4.6-5.1 mm.

Differential diagnosis.

Cryptopimpla kogelbergensis is immediately distinguishable from all other Afrotropical Cryptopimpla species by the distinctive colour combination of the mesopleuron, which is three-banded in brown, white and black; possession of a smooth head; and vein 2m-cu is straight on the fore wing. The maximum width of the eye in anterior view 0.6-0.63 times the shortest inter-ocular distance; the length of the first flagellomere 6.1-6.8 times longer than wide; the metasomal tergum 1 with dorsolateral carinae substituted with longitudinal wrinkles; and the metasomal tergum 2 as long as wide with small and distinct gastrocoeli distinguishes Cryptopimpla kogelbergensis from Cryptopimpla goci where the maximum width of the eye in the anterior view is much narrower at 0.38 times the shortest inter-ocular distance; distinct dorsolateral carinae are presented as a short carina leading from a single carina ventrad of the spiracle; the length of the first flagellomere is 3.9 times longer than wide; vein 2m-cu on the fore wing is sinuate; and the second tergum is 1.21 times longer than wide with the gastrocoeli elongate.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality. Noun in apposition.

Distribution.

South Africa (Western Cape & Northern Cape).