Oodera mkomaziensis sp. n. Figs 4b, 7b, 10b, 13b, 16b

Diagnosis .

FEMALE (N = 1). Medium-sized (7.20 mm). Head and mesosoma black, with tinges of dark green and purple. Fore wing hyaline. Body slender (mesonotum 1.50 × as long as wide). Head oval (1.56 × as high as long). Eyes large (0.63 × as high as head) (Fig. 10b). Corona thick (3.92 × as long as wide), structure interrupted (Fig. 7b). Pronotum oval, with broadest part at midlength (Fig. 13b). Mesoscutellum normal to slender (0.68 × as long as wide), anterior margin convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.33), mesoscutellum lineate in anterior two thirds, finely areolate in posterior third (Fig. 16b). Propodeum medium (0.09 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 16b). Profemur robust (1.31 × as long as wide). Marginal vein short (0.85 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma long (0.52 × as long as body). Ovipositor short (0.14 × as long as metasoma) (Fig. 4b).

Redescription .

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 4b, 7b, 10b, 13b, 16b). Scape and pedicel light brown, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa and profemur black, all other parts of legs yellow to brown. Metasoma black.

Head (Figs 7b, 10b). Face completely reticulate. Head 2.21 × as wide as long. Head width 4.13 × eye distance. Malar space 0.37 × head height. Corona 0.73 × as long as eye height. POL 1.33 × OOL. Scape 3.19 × as long as pedicel. Clava 0.11 × as long as funicle. Flagellum 1.39 × as long as head width.

Mesosoma (Figs 13b, 16b). Pronotum 0.80 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.41 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.50 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 1.11 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.68 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.21 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 4b). Fore wing 2.78 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.36 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.19 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 3.40 as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 4.00 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

AFRICA. Tanzania: female, Mkomazi Game Reserve (now Mkomazi National Park), Ibaya Hill, 3°58.40'S 37°47.13'E, leg. S. van Noort, 15.- 30.04.1996 (SAM) (OMk01)

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Tanzania.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality, the Mkomazi National Park in northeastern Tanzania.