Protoleptops magnificus
Creators: name: Dal Pos, Davide
name: De Ketelaere, Augustijn
name: Di Giovanni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Protoleptops
Protoleptops magnificus

description: Protoleptops magnificus (Heinrich, 1967)
Figs 5 A – F, 6 D – F
Apatetorops magnificus Heinrich, 1967: 81–83 (original description, key, figures); Schmidt and Schmidt 2011: 83 (type catalogue).
Protoleptops magnifica [sic]; Townes and Townes 1973: 226 (catalogue, new combination, incorrect gender agreement).
Protoleptops magnificus; Yu and Horstmann 1997: 530 (catalogue, mandatory change); Yu et al. 2016 (catalogue).
Differential diagnosis.
Protoleptops magnificus can be easily distinguished from all the other known species of the genus by the following combination of characters: (1) incomplete carination of the propodeum, with costulae lacking and area dentipara confluent with area externa and area spiracularis (carination almost complete in P. heinrichi); (2) temple, in dorsal view, bulging (straight and converging in in P. angolae and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (3) hind tarsus infuscate (white in P. angolae and P. nyeupe sp. nov.); (4) presence of a scopa taking up 2 / 3 of the ventral part of the coxa (absent in P. heinrichi, reduced in P. angolae and P. farquharsoni); (5) mesoscutellum with lateral white marks (reddish-orange in P. farquharsoni and P. angolae); (6) T 2 longitudinally striate medially (densely punctate in P. angolae and P. farquharsoni); and (7) mesoscutum sparsely and superficially punctate (densely punctate anteriorly in P. farquharsoni).
Original type series.
Holotype (by original designation). Tanzania • ♀; Tanga, West Usambara Mountains, Lushoto, 1700 m 19 Feb. 1962; (ZSM).
Paratypes. Tanzania • 5 ♀♀ & 1 ♂; same locality as the holotype, 17 Feb. 1962; ZSM • 1 ♀; same locality as the holotype, 1600 m, 5 Mar. 1962; (ZSM). South Africa • 1 ♀; Eastern Cape, Port St. Johns, 20 Feb. 1963; (ZSM)
Material examined.
Holotype. Tanzania • ♀; “ [White label] TANGANYIKA / W Usambara Mts. / 1700 m. Lushoto / 19. II. 1962 [White label] Apatetorops / magnificus / ♀ Heinr. / det. Heinr. // [Red label] Holotype // [Pink label] Zoologische Staatssammlung / München / Type-No.: ZSM - Hym- 00240 // [Red label] Typus Nr. Hym. / 420 / Zoologische / Staatsammlung / München. ”; (ZSM). Paratypes. Tanzania • ♂; “ [White label] TANGANYIKA / W Usambara Mts. / 1700 m. Lushoto / 17. II. 1962 [White label] Apatetorops / magnificus / ♂ Heinr. / det. Heinr. // [Red label] Allotypus ”; (ZSM).
Non-type specimens.
South Africa • 1 ♀; Mpumalanga, Waterval-Boven [= Emgwenya], Elandsrivier, 18. i. 2000, J. Halada leg.; (OÖLM).
Male.
Described in the original description by Heinrich (1967) as “ Allotype ”.
Distribution.
South Africa: Eastern Cape (Heinrich 1967); Mpumalanga (new record); Tanzania: Tanga region (Heinrich 1967) (Fig. 8).
Remarks.
In their catalogue, Townes and Townes (1973: 226) provided a new combination for Apatetorops magnificus Heinrich, 1967, moving the species into the genus Protoleptops. While doing so, they referred to Protoleptops magnifica [sic], possibly misinterpreting the gender of the genus Protoleptops as feminine instead of masculine. Subsequently, Yu and Horstmann (1997: 530) correctly interpreted the gender as masculine and made the mandatory change to the suffix in accordance with ICZN (1999: article 34.2).
description: Published as part of Dal Pos, Davide, De Ketelaere, Augustijn & Di Giovanni, Filippo, 2024, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new species from Burundi, pp. 197-216 in ZooKeys 1214 on pages 197-216, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1214.131071