Clistopyga sziladyi Kiss, 1959

Varga, Oleksandr & Reshchikov, Alexey, 2015, New records of the genus Clistopyga Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Oriental region, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3964 (5), pp. 561-568 : 566-567

Clistopyga sziladyi Kiss, 1959

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Clistopyga nagatomii Kusigemati, 1984 syn. nov.

Material examined. C. sziladyi Kiss, 1959 , holotype ( HNHM); C. nagatomii Kusigemati, 1984 , holotype ( KUIC); female, INDIA, Kerala, Calicut, Mundoth, 11°44’20.9’’N, 75°69’97.7’’E, sweeping net, 10.x.2013, leg. R. Kondappurath ( NHRS); female, same locality as previous specimen ( Calicut University, India).

Taxon discussion. In 1984 Dr. K. Kusigemati described eleven new Pimplinae species from South East Asia. According to the original description ( Kusigemati 1984) C. nagatomii , a species described from Thailand, is similar to C. latifrontalis , but is distinguished by the following features: flagellum with around 17 segments, face strongly punctate, trans-striate frons, mat propodeum with weak median longitudinal carinae, face and thorax entirely black, and different colouration of the metasoma. Clistopyga nagatomii was never compared with Clistopyga species from other geographic regions. Our examination of the holotypes of the European C. sziladyi and the Oriental C. nagatomii have shown that both species are delimited by the same morphological characters: both have a black face which is closely punctate centrally, red hind femora and tibia which are apically fuscous, black mesosoma and face, granulate pronotum, metapleuron and propodeum, and reddish central metasomal tergites. The hind wings in both species have the first abscissa of vein Cu 1 approximately 2 × longer than the vein cu-a and vein Cu 1 present, but almost unpigmented. Also, the ovipositor is relatively short, upcurved, and 0.95–1 × the length of the hind tibia. We therefore consider C. nagatomii to be a junior synonym (syn. nov.) of C. sziladyi .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Clistopyga spp. C. nagatomii, holotype female: a, b, c, e, f, g; C. sziladyi, European specimen, d: a) lateral view of habitus; b) data labels; c) lateral view of mesosoma; d) lateral view of habitus; e) frontal view of head; f) dorsal view of head and mesoscutum; g) dorsolateral view of metasoma.

FIGURE 4. Distribution map of Clistopyga spp. in the Oriental region: C. longifemoralis sp. n. — circle; C. latifrontalissquare; C. sziladyi— triangle.