Clistopyga caramba Castillo & Sääksjärvi, 2015

Santiago Bordera, Ilari Eerikki Sääksjärvi, Carol Castillo, Edgard Palacio & Alejandra González-Moreno, 2016, The Neotropical species of Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Part I: the C. chaconi species group, with the description of eleven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 206, pp. 1-37 : 8

Clistopyga caramba Castillo & Sääksjärvi, 2015

Fig. 1A

Diagnosis

Clistopyga caramba is a very distinctive species and can be distinguished from all other species of the species group by the combination of the following characters: metasomal tergites I–IV white; tergites V–VI brown and extremely modified (resembling an ant in lateral view).

Material examined

Holotype

PERU: ♀, Cusco, La Convención, Echarate, San Martin Norte, 11 ̊45'19" S, 72 ̊42'26" W, 430 m, 10–14 Nov. 2010, leg. B. Medina and Z. Bravo ( UNSM).

Remarks

Additional characters to the original description are as follows: frons with a weak medial longitudinal groove; vertex smooth and shiny, with very isolated setiferous punctures; occipital carina weakly raised, forming a flat flange dorsomedially; face with fine and moderately sparse setiferous punctures, distance between punctures several times diameter of punctures; clypeal suture strongly curved; clypeus weakly convex in dorsal half, flat in ventral half; hind leg with femur about 4.0 times as long as deep; hind wing with vein cu-a + abscissa of Cu 1 between M and cu-a vertical; ovipositor sheath with numerous oblique setae about same length or shorter than basal width of sheath.

Distribution

Peru.