Hyposoter karmensis Galsworthy & Shaw & Haraldseide 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Galsworthy, Anthony
name: Shaw, Mark R.
name: Haraldseide, Håkon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hyposoter
Hyposoter karmensis

description: Hyposoter karmensis Galsworthy & Haraldseide sp. nov.
(Figs. 18, 19)
Diagnosis. Among red-bodied species with mainly dark trochanters, generally similar to H. notatus and H. caudator, but well diffentiated by the key characters, in particular the narrower and darker 2nd abdominal tergite, which more closely resembles that of H. ruficrus, the latter however having dark tegulae.
Description (female). Fore wing length: 4.5 mm.
Head: face broader than long, quite coarsely granulate; clypeus narrow and rounded, sculpture as face, with a narrow and sharp shining apical margin; mandibles strongly narrowed, with a broad ventral flange; malar space about equal to proximal width of mandibles; teeth equal in size; genal carina joining hypostomal carina at some distance from base of mandible; frons, vertex and temples evenly granulate; temples in dorsal view very short and very strongly narrowed behind eyes, in lateral view about one third width of eyes; antenna slender and slightly tapering, with 28–29 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 2.4x as long as wide, distal flagellomeres quadrate to slightly transverse.
Mesosoma: pronotum with strong epomia, granulate with transverse striae; mesoscutum granulate with many fine rugae, and scattered punctures visible under high magnification; mesopleuron including speculum matt with very fine irregularly reticulate sculpture, forming fine striae in hollow in front of speculum, and with many fine punctures confined to lower mesopleuron; epicnemial carina complete laterally and ventrally; metapleuron coarsely granulate; propodeum with anterior fields and area superomedia finely granulate, rest of surface rugose; carinae well defined, and complete except for costulae, which terminate half way across their fields; area basalis narrowly triangular; area superomedia longer than broad, not closed distally.
Wings narrow, 1 cu-a postfurcal; areolet stalked; nervellus vertical.
Metasoma: petiole smooth and shining, without carinae; postpetiole broadly rounded, with minute reticulate sculpture; small glymma present close to postpetiole; 2nd tergite elongate, 1.4x longer than wide, third tergite quadrate, rest transverse; 2nd tergite onwards apparently smooth, but rather matt with irregular minute microsculpture; 6th and seventh tergites entire; ovipositor short, only slightly curved, with a small dorsal notch slightly beyond half its length, sheaths less than distal height of metasoma.
Colour: black; yellow: tips of mandibles, tegulae, wing bases, fore and mid trochantelli; orange: fore and mid femora, tibiae and tarsi, hind trochantellus and femur, distal one third of second tergite, third and fourth tergites, and fifth tergite laterally; hind tibia orange, darkened proximally and distally, in some specimens with a small yellow fleck dorsoproximally; hind tibial spurs white, tipped dark brown; hind tarsi dark brown, basitarsus with only a tiny white fleck proximally.
Male and biology unknown.
Holotype: ♀, Norway, EIS 13 RY, KARMØY, Skår August 2016 (Malaise) leg. Håkon Haraldseide (in NHMUK). Paratypes: 4♀, data as holotype, one June 2017 (BOLD Sample ID CollHH1208) (in ZSM), two July 2018 (one in NMS, one in coll. H.H. Haraldseide), and one August 2018, (in coll. A C Galsworthy) leg. Håkon Haraldseide; 2 ♀, Germany: Bayern, Allgäu Oberstdorf, Engenkopf, Malaise trap, 1210m and 1230m, 29.05– 10.6.2015 (BOLD Sample ID CollHH3327), and 21.08– 4.9.2015; leg. D. Doczkal & V. Voith (in coll. Haraldseide).
Remarks. The barcode data for the German specimen agrees closely with that of the Norwegian specimen.
description: Published as part of Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 5290 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5290.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7959256