Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967

Dal Pos, Davide, De Ketelaere, Augustijn & Di Giovanni, Filippo, 2024, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new species from Burundi, ZooKeys 1214, pp. 197-216 : 197-216

Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967

Figs 4 A – E , 6 A – C

Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967: 72–73 (original description, key, figures); Townes and Townes 1973: 226 (catalogue); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 530 (catalogue); Yu et al. 2016 (catalogue).

Differential diagnosis.

Protoleptops heinrichi can be easily distinguished from all the other known species of the genus by the following combination of characters: (1) almost complete carination of the propodeum (incomplete in all the other species); (2) absence of a scopa (present in all the other species); and (3) T 2 – T 5 anteriorly constricted (not constricted in all the other species).

Original type series.

Holotype (by original designation). Madagascar • ♀; Antsiranana, Ivondro , Feb. 1940; ( MNHN) . Paratypes. Madagascar • 1 ♂; Antsiranana, Ivondro , Dec. 1938; MNHN • 1 ♀; Antsiranana, Rogez , 1935; ( ZSM) .

Material examined.

Holotype. Madagascar • ♀; “ [White label] MADAGASCAR // [White label] Ivondro // [Blue label] MUSÉUM PARIS / II. 40 / A. SEYRIG // [White label] Apatetor / heinrichi / TYPE // [White label] Protoleptops / ♀ heinrichi / Heinr. / det Heinr. // [Red label] Holotype // [Whitel label] Muséum Paris / EY 10172 ”; ( MNHN) . Paratypes. Madagascar • ♂; “ [White label] MADAGASCAR // [White label] Ivondro [Written over Rogez, Foret Cote Est] // [Blue label] MUSÉUM PARIS / XII. 38 / A. SEYRIG // [White label] Protoleptops / heinrichi ♂ / Heinr. / det Heinr. // [Red label] Allotypus // [Whitel label] Muséum Paris / EY 10173 ”; ( MNHN) • ♀; “ [White label] MADAGASCAR / Rogez / Foret Core Est // [Blue label] MUSÉUM PARIS / 1935 / A. SEYRIG // [White label] heinrichi / Heinr. / det. G. Heinr. // [White label] Protoleptops / heinrichi / ♀ Heinr. / det Heinr. // [Yellow label] Paratypus ”; ( ZSM) .

Male.

Described in the original description by Heinrich (1967) as “ Allotype ”.

Distribution.

Madagascar: Antsiranana ( Heinrich 1967) (Fig. 8 ).

Remarks.

The specific epithet given by Heinrich might appear to be self-glorification, as it is named after himself. However, it is actually a dedication to his friend, A. Seyrig, who was the first to recognize it as a new species and labeled it as “ Apatetor heinrichi ”, but never officially described it. When Heinrich discovered the species at the MNHN, he chose to retain the name in honor of his friend’s intentions, stating: “ I felt bound to carry out the will of my late friend, rather than to shrink from the possibility of being blamed for self-glorification in using this species name ” ( Heinrich 1967: 72).

Figures

Figure 4. Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967, female, holotype A habitus, lateral view; female, paratype B face, frontal view C hind coxa, ventral view D head, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, and propodeum, dorsal view E metasomal tergites, dorsal view. Images of the habitus downloaded from the public MNHN database (available at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/ey/item/ey10172). Scale bar: 1 cm.

Figure 6. Protoleptops heinrichi Heinrich, 1967, male, paratype A habitus, lateral view B propodeum and metasomal tergites, dorsal view C face, frontal view. Downloaded from the public MNHN database (available at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/ey/item/ey10173). Protoleptops magnificus (Heinrich, 1967), male, paratype, D face, frontal view E propodeum and metasomal tergites, dorsal view F habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 1 cm.

Figure 8. Distribution map of the known species of the genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967.