Kiwi oreteus Khalaim & Ward 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey I.
name: Ward, Darren F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Kiwi
Kiwi oreteus

description: Kiwi oreteus Khalaim & Ward, sp. nov.
(Figs 12, 33–37, 62)
Comparison. The new species is similar to K. ruzelus but differs from it by the shape of the ovipositor (Fig. 36), weaker foveate groove of mesopleuron (Fig. 35), first tergite less slender and evenly arcuate in lateral view (Fig. 37), and shorter second tergite.
Description. Female. Body length 2.7 mm. Fore wing length 2.0 mm Head in dorsal view strongly roundly tapered behind eyes, with gena about 0.55× as long as eye width (Fig. 34). Head without distinct punctures; clypeus smooth, sometimes slightly scabrous near upper margin; face and frons granulate, dull; vertex and gena shallowly granulate, weakly shining. Clypeus lenticular, weakly convex. Flagellum slightly clavate, basally slender, with 16–17 flagellomeres (16 in holotype); flagellomeres 2 and 3 almost 2.5× and subapical flagellomeres 1.4–1.6× as long as broad (Fig. 33). Mandible slender, with upper tooth somewhat longer than the lower. Malar space 0.8–1.0× as long as basal mandibular width.
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Mesosoma entirely granulate, impunctate, dull. Notaulus with a strong longitudinal wrinkle on anterolateral side of mesoscutum. Foveate groove thin to moderately broad, almost horizontal, extending in front 0.5–0.7 of mesopleuron, sometimes with weak transverse wrinkles (Fig. 35). Propodeal spiracle separated from pleural carina by half diameter of spiracle. Propodeum with basal part about as long as apical area; transverse carina well developed; apical area widely rounded or obtusely pointed anteriorly; apical longitudinal carinae complete. Fore wing with vein 2m-cu interstitial or slightly postfurcal, unpigmented anteriorly, with posterior end distinct.
First tergite about 3.4× as long as posteriorly broad, in lateral view with upper margin evenly arcuate (Fig. 37); petiole longitudinally striate, postpetiole granulate. Glymma deep, situated approximately in centre of tergite, joining by distinct furrow to ventral part of postpetiole (Fig. 37). Second tergite as long as anteriorly broad. Thyridial depression transverse. Ovipositor short, relatively robust, weakly upcurved, with shallow dorsal subapical depression and a slight rounded swelling before this depression (Fig. 36); sheath 0.8–0.9× as long as hind tibia.
Body reddish orange to brown (Fig. 12), darker paratypes have head, mesosoma and first tergite dark reddish brown to blackish. Clypeus (except extreme upper margin), mouthparts, mandible (teeth red) and tegula yellow. Legs yellow; hind coxa darkened with brown, and sometimes hind femur, tibia and tarsus also infuscate. Scape and pedicel yellow to brownish yellow; flagellum brown, pale basally. Pterostigma pale brown.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. The species is named after the type locality, Orete [Forest].
Material examined. Holotype female (AMNZ) BP, Orete Forest, Te Puia Hut, 240 m, Podocarp/broadleaf forest, screen sweep, 25.I.1993, coll. J.W. Early, AMNZ71654.
Paratypes. CL: 1 ♀ (AMNZ) Cuvier Island, West Ridge Track, 160 m, ferns and groundcover in forest, screen sweeping L8069, 12.XI.1999, coll. J.W. Early & S.E. Thorpe. 1 ♀ (ZISP) same island and collectors, Main Ridge to Pumphouse, 120 m, in forest, screen sweep, 14.XI.1999. ND: 1 ♀ (NZAC) Poor Knights Islands, Tawhiti Rahi Island, Shag Bay, Malaise trap, 6–11.IX.1980, coll. J.C. Watt. 1 ♀ (NZAC) same island, in bush, window trap, 2–10.XII.1980, coll. M.F. Tocker.
Distribution. North Island (ND, CL, BP).
description: Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ward, Darren F., 2019, Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from New Zealand. Part 2. Review of genera Kiwi gen. nov. and Zealochus Khalaim, pp. 521-545 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on pages 533-534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3239895