Pristomerus ranomafana Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013

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Diagnosis

Moderate size; head whitish yellow with middle of face, frons, inter-ocellar and occiput black; mesosoma and metasoma reddish-testaceous with black markings on mesonotum and propodeum, tergites 1–3 black, and following tergites medially dark brown; face moderately punctate-granulate; inner margins of eyes subparallel; clypeus transverse, sparsely and shallowly punctate; malar line long; antenna with 31 flagellomeres, penultimate flagellomere quadrate; mesosoma densely punctate except pronotum shallowly sculptured, speculum ventrally smooth, and notaulus somewhat rugose; area superomedia elongate; female femoral tooth absent; ovipositor very long, apically strongly sinuous. B 7.2; A 4.4; F 4.9; CT 1.7; ML 0.7; POL 0.6; OOL 1.2; Fl n–1 1.0; ASM 2.0; OT 2.2; FFT 0. Male unknown.

Differential diagnosis

Moderately sized species from Madagascar, mostly reddish-testaceous with basal tergites black, and head mostly white, posteriorly and mid-longitudinally black. Differentiated from most of other Afrotropical species by the absence of a femoral tooth in the female, the white orbits, and the very long ovipositor. Morphologically related to P. vahaza, whose clypeus is narrower and mesosoma more slender, and to P. caris, whose ovipositor is significantly shorter.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR: ♀, “ MADAGASCAR, Province Fianarantsoa, Parc Nat. Ranomafana, 21°15.05’S, 47°24.43’E, Mixed tropical forest (radio tower) – 1130 m, 14–21 / I / 2002, Irwin & Harin’Hala colls, California Acad of Sciences, Malaise trap MA–02–09B–12” (CASC).

Distribution

Madagascar.