Pristomerus kelikely Rousse & Villemant & Seyrig 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Villemant, Claire
name: Seyrig, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Pristomerus
Pristomerus kelikely

description: Pristomerus kelikely sp. nov.
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Fig. 8
Diagnosis
Small species; face orange; general coloration orange; face moderately and finely punctate, clypeus transverse and sparsely punctate; mesoscutum densely punctate medially, apical margin of lateral lobe smooth, scutellum smooth; area superomedia about 2 x longer than wide; female femoral tooth absent; ovipositor moderately long, apically sinuate; POL 0.8; OOL 1.3; CT 2.0; ML 0.6; OT 1.5–1.8; FFT 0.
Differential diagnosis
The combination of small size, orange face, absence of femoral tooth in female and hardly enlarged ocelli in male makes this species readily distinguishable from any other in Madagascar but P. moramora. Both may be differentiated by characters given in the key.
Etymology
Euphonic reference to the small size of this species: “kely” is the Malagasy word for “little”.
Type material
Holotype
MADAGASCAR: ♀ (MNHN EY2477), Anivorano, 16°49’ S, 48°10’ E, verbatim label data: “Madagascar, Anivorano, XII 1929 ”, hind tarsi and half right antenna lacking.
Paratypes
MADAGASCAR: 8 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂ (MNHN EY 2478–2489), Rogez, Jul., Sep., Nov. and Dec. 1930, Jan., Feb. and Nov. 1931; 3 ♀♀ (BNHM, MRAC, IZPAN), Rogez, Sep. and Oct. 1930; 1 ♀ (MNHN EY8697), Antanimora, Jan. 1937; 2 ♀♀ (ISAM, MNHU), same locality, same date; 2 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ (MNHN EY8699– 8702), Ivondro, Oct. 1936, Dec. 1938 and May 1940; 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (ANHM, NHRS), same locality, Dec. 1938; 2 ♂♂ (MNHN EY8698 and EY8703), Bekily, Oct. 1936, Feb. 1940; 1 ♂ (CAS), same locality, Oct. 1936.
Description
Female
LENGTH. 4.0, 4.0 (3.2–4.3) (10 specimens).
HEAD. Constricted behind eyes. Temple, vertex and frons granulate. Ocellar triangle equilateral. Face shining, moderately and finely punctate. Clypeus transverse, sparsely punctate. Mandible rather short, stout, teeth subequal. Malar line rather short. Antenna with 31–32 flagellomeres; first flagellomere 1.2 x longer than second.
MESOSOMA. Elongate, about 2 x as long as high, shining. Pronotum nearly smooth. Mesoscutum densely punctate, lateral lobe smoother, its apical margin quite smooth. Scuto-scutellar groove longitudinally ribbed. Scutellum slightly convex, almost smooth. Pleurae moderately punctate, speculum smooth. Propodeum moderately to densely punctate laterally, smoother medially. Area basalis opposite, sometimes truncate or petiolate, area superomedia about 2 x longer than wide. Legs: femoral tooth absent.
METASOMA. Tergites 1 and 2 finely aciculate. Tergite 2 as long as tergite 1, about 2 x longer than apically wide. Ovipositor moderately long, apex slightly sinuate.
COLOR. Orange overall. Flagellum black. First tergites slightly fuscous. Wings hyaline, pterostima yellowish-brown.
Male
Length: 3.9 (3.2–4.7) (5 specimens). Ocelli not enlarged, rather distant from eyes (OOL = 1.0). Area superomedia more variable in size. Femur stouter, femoral tooth strong and sharp. Otherwise similar to female.
Distribution
Madagascar (Toamasina province).
description: Published as part of Rousse, Pascal, Villemant, Claire & Seyrig, André, 2013, Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. VI. The genus Pristomerus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), pp. 1-38 in European Journal of Taxonomy 49 on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.49, http://zenodo.org/record/3814375