Afrocampe prinslooi, Gumovsky, 2018

Gumovsky, Alex, 2018, A new genus of Tetracampidae (Hymenoptera) from South Africa, European Journal of Taxonomy 447, pp. 1-13 : 8-10

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.447

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962170

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/741A87D3-FFC4-FF88-8066-FC77FD37D711

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Plazi

scientific name

Afrocampe prinslooi
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Afrocampe prinslooi gen. et sp. nov.

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Figs 1–4 View Fig. 1 View Fig. 2 View Fig. 3 View Fig. 4

Etymology

The species is named after Gerhard Prinsloo, a famous expert on South African Chalcidoidea, who collected part of the type series and also first noticed and sorted out the SANC specimens as unusual tetracampids.

Material examined

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA: ♀, Bathhurst, C.P., Jan. 1979, G.L. Prinsloo leg. (deposited in SANC).

Paratypes

SOUTH AFRICA: 1 ♀, Bathurst, C.P., Jan. 1979, G.L. Prinsloo leg., National Coll. of Insects , Pretoria, S. Afr. ( NMP) ; 2 ♀♀, Nieu Bethesda, Feb. 1990, G.L. Prinsloo leg., National Coll. of Insects , Pretoria, S. Afr. ( NMP) ; 1 ♀, C.P., Nature’s Valley , 33.59° S, 23.34° E. 26 Nov. 1983, G.L. Prinsloo and N.C. Grobbelaar leg., National Coll. of Insects , Pretoria, S. Afr. ( NMP) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, C.P. , Knysna, 34.02° S, 23.03° E. 26 Nov. 1983, G.L. Prinsloo and N.C. Grobbelaar leg., National Coll. of Insects , Pretoria, S. Afr. ( NMP) GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, C.P., Baviaanskloof , 23–24 Nov. 1983, G.L. Prinsloo and N.C. Grobbelaar leg. ( SANC) ; 1 ♀, Grahamstown, C.P. , Jan. 1979, G.L. Prinsloo leg. ( SANC) ; 1 ♂ (headless), C.P., Humansdorp , 34.02° S, 24.46° E, 27 Nov. 1983, G.L. Prinsloo and N.C. Grobbelaar leg. ( SANC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Western Cape, Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve , 33°59.030′ S, 20°49.128′ E, 340 m a.s.l., 5 Nov. 2009 – 27 Feb. 2010, Malaise trap, afromontane forest, S. van Noort leg. ( GVB10-FOR1-M01, SAM- HYM-P067822 ) ( SAMC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Eastern Cape, Winterberg, the Hoek farm , 32°21.260′ S, 26°23.001′ E, 1879 m a.s.l., 26 Jul.–6 Oct. 2010, yellow pan trap, Amathole mistbelt grassland, S. van Noort leg. ( WTB09-GRA1-Y05, SAM-HYM-P067823 ) ( SAMC) GoogleMaps .

Description

Female

LENGTH. 1.4–1.6 mm.

COLOUR. Body with yellow and blue-green markings: head mostly yellow apart from black scrobal depression and green metallic occiput and vertex; meso- and metasoma mostly metallic green, except for yellow pronotum, prepectus, acropleuron, tegulae and shoulders of mesoscutum; legs and antennae yellow-brown, except for green metallic anterior parts of hind coxae and black pretarsi ( Figs 2 View Fig. 2 , 3A–C View Fig. 3 , 4A–B View Fig. 4 ). Wings transparent, veins pale brown, dorsal bristles pale ( Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ).

HEAD. In dorsal view about 2.0 × as long as broad, vertex smoothly transits to occiput, so occipital margin not traceable ( Fig. 2D View Fig. 2 ). POL about 2.0× OOL, OOL about 2.3× MDO. Head in frontal view 1.2× as wide as high; eye approximately 2.3× as high as broad; ventral margin of torulus situated slightly above virtual line connecting lower margins of eye orbits ( Fig. 2B View Fig. 2 ). Minimum distance between inner orbits about 0.6× width of head. Face smooth, width of scrobal depression about 0.3× that of face ( Fig. 2B View Fig. 2 ). Mouth opening about 1.3 × as wide as malar space (malar space about 0.7–0.8 × as long as mouth opening, Fig. 3F View Fig. 3 ). Inner margins of eyes slightly diverging. Genae nearly straight. Mandibles oriented downwards, bidentate ( Fig. 3F View Fig. 3 ). Malar suture sulcate, complete. Antenna ( Fig. 3E View Fig. 3 ) with scape about 4.8 × as long as wide, pedicel 1.7 × as long as broad. F1 1.5–1.6 × as long as broad, F2 1.2× as long as broad, F3 1.3× as long as broad, F4 and F5 slightly longer than wide, club slightly more than 2.0 × as long as broad, club 3.0 × as long as F5, its segments separated by sutures, terminal spine very short.

MESOSOMA. About 1.5 × as long as broad, weakly alutaceous ( Fig. 2D–F View Fig. 2 ). Pronotum short, conical, about 0.2× as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum about 1.8 × as broad as long; mesoscutellum slightly wider than long and slightly longer than mesoscutum, with 2 pairs of strong bristles, its surface alutaceous, posterior ¼ smoother ( Fig. 2D–F View Fig. 2 ). Axilla with two strong bristles. Mesopleuron smooth and flat, mesopleural suture present as a very shallow groove ( Fig. 3A, D View Fig. 3 ). Propodeum as narrow stripe, smooth, without sculpture ( Fig. 3C View Fig. 3 ), its callus with 10 setae.

METANOTUM. With relatively wide, smooth dorsellum, about 0.15 × as long as mesoscutellum ( Fig. 3C View Fig. 3 ). Metapleuron subrectangular, with alutaceous sculpture, nearly flat ( Fig. 3A, D View Fig. 3 ).

FORE WING. Approximately 2.4–2.5× as long as broad ( Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ), slightly longer than body ( Figs 2A, C, E View Fig. 2 , 4A View Fig. 4 ). Subcosta of SMV tapering, but not broken when transiting to parastigma, with 5 dorsal bristles ( Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ), MV slightly longer (about 1.1×) than costal cell, about 0.6× wing width, STV with short petiole, nearly perpendicular to MV, with subtriangular or spherical stigma and short, relatively wide uncus, PMV about 3.4–3.8 × as long as STV ( Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ). Marginal fringe long, as long as STV, about 2.0–2.5 × as long as width of MV at its broadest part ( Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ).

LEG. Front leg with a short calcar, about as long as width of its tibia, evenly acute and nearly straight; midtibial spur about 2.0× as long as width of its tibia; hindtibial spur 1.2× as long as width of its tibia.

METASOMA. 1.1–1.2 × as long as mesosoma ( Figs 2A, E View Fig. 2 , 4A View Fig. 4 ); petiole rather transverse, lightly sculptured ( Figs 2A, C, E View Fig. 2 , 4A View Fig. 4 ). Gaster about 1.5 × as long as wide in dorsal view ( Fig. 3B–C View Fig. 3 ). Gt2–5 with posterior margins straight ( Fig. 3C View Fig. 3 ); Gt6 nearly straight posteriorly, bearing gastral spiracles ( Figs 3C View Fig. 3 , 4B View Fig. 4 ); syntergum with a pair of short cerci (each with three long, straight setae) and with a membranous lobe at its posterior end ( Figs 3C View Fig. 3 , 4B View Fig. 4 ).

Male

Length about 0.9 mm. Very similar to female ( Fig. 4D View Fig. 4 ), but with somewhat longer flagellar segments ( Fig. 4E View Fig. 4 ), 4-segmented tarsi and shorter gaster.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

South Africa: Eastern and Western Cape.

SANC

South Africa, Pretoria, South African National Collection of Insects

NMP

Czech Republic, Prague, National Museum (Natural History)

SAMC

South Africa, Cape Town, Iziko Museum of Capetown (formerly South African Museum)

NMP

Natal Museum

SAMC

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Tetracampidae

SubFamily

Tetracampinae

Genus

Afrocampe

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