Ifrika wadudu Colombo and Azevedo 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dondoni Colombo, Wesley
name: Azevedo, Celso Oliveira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Ifrika
Ifrika wadudu

description: Ifrika wadudu Colombo and Azevedo sp. n.
(Fig. 7)
Diagnosis
This species differs from the others of the genus by having the mandible with three teeth and mediodorsal fold oval and wide.
Description
Male. Body ~ 2.2 mm long. Forewing ~ 1.4 mm long. Antenna ~ 0.9 mm long. Colour. Head, clypeus, antenna, mandible, mesosoma and metasoma castaneous; palpi light castaneous; legs light castaneous; wings subhyaline, veins and pterostigma castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous. Head. Heptagonal, about as long as wide. Mandible with three teeth, one ventral-most sharpened and larger, otherwise rounded and very short, progressively increasing in length ventrad. Clypeus with median lobe rounded; median carina absent. Antenna with dense erect pubescence, about as long as flagellomeral diameter, with some outstanding erect setae on first five flagellomeres. Vertex crest straight. Frons polished and coriaceous. Ocellar triangle with frontal angle acute, anterior ocellus fully posterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma. Dorsal pronotal area polished, with some irregularly sized large punctures, posterior area wider than anterior one. Anteromesoscutum with notauli well impressed, not reaching anterior margin of anteromesoscutum and not reaching posterior one, not converging posterad. Parapsidal signums well impressed, but missing anteriorly, straight. Metascutellum weakly punctate and coriaceous, lateral margin straight, surface convex; metanotal fovea almost hexagonal. Mesoscuto-scutellar sulcus weakly incurved medially. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long, metapostnotal median carina incomplete, not extending posteriorly, lateral marginal carina weakly distinguishable from background texture. Propodeal declivity irregularly alveolate. Mesopleuron with posterior oblique sulcus poorly delimited and shallow. Wings. Hind wing with four distal hamuli. Metasoma. Hypopygium with spiculum surpassing inner membrane apically. Posterior margin strongly excavated forming two round lobes, excavation about one-fourth as long as hypopygeal plate. Genitalia. Harpe with dorsal arm 2× wider than ventral arm basally; basal appendicular process semicircular, as long as wide; aedeagus subrectangular with apex wider than base in dorsal view, dorsal valve with ventral margin apex deeply emarginated in lateral view, mediodorsal fold oval and wide, median projection widening apically, laminar, dull, wide; basal cover plate heart-shaped, all margins incurved; apodeme strongly dorsally curved and almost touching basal cover plate in lateral view.
Female. Unknown.
Material examined
Type material. Holotype: male, UGANDA, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1500 m, 0°33.784 ʹ N 30°21.617 ʹ E, 2–12.viii.2008, S.van Noort, UG08 -KF4-M04, Malaise trap, primary mid-altitude Rainforest (SAM-HYM-P101797). Paratypes: UGANDA, 1 male, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1495 m, 0°33.996 ʹ N 30°21.262 ʹ E, 3–5.viii.2005, S. van Noort, UG05 - M11, Malaise trap, secondary mid-altitude Rainforest (SAM-HYM-P101801); 2 males, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1505 m, 0°33.859 ʹ N 30°21.630 ʹ E, 31vii–3viii.2005, S. van Noort, UG05 -Y33, Yellow pan trap, primary mid-altitude Rainforest (SAM-HYM-P101798, SAM-HYM-P101799); 1 male, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 1582 m, 0°33.823 ʹ N 30° 21.490 ʹ E, 2–12.viii.2008, S. van Noort, UG08 -KF3-M03, Malaise trap, primary mid-altitude Rainforest (SAM-HYM-P101800).
Etymology
The epithet wadudu from Swahili means insects. Treat as a noun in apposition.
Distribution
Uganda (Figure 3B).
description: Published as part of Dondoni Colombo, Wesley & Azevedo, Celso Oliveira, 2023, Discovery of a new Afrotropical genus of flat wasps Ifrika gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), pp. 1472-1494 in Journal of Natural History 57 (29 - 32) on pages 1482-1488, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2258605, http://zenodo.org/record/10594454