Epirhyssa gavinbroadi Rousse & Noort 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Noort, Simon Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Epirhyssa
Epirhyssa gavinbroadi

description: Epirhyssa gavinbroadi sp. nov.
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Fig. 2
Diagnosis
Bright yellow overall with isolated dorsal black markings; wings hyaline, slightly infuscate apically; face rugulose-punctate, moderately protruding dorsally; clypeus punctate, with median subapical tubercle moderate, ventral margin strongly produced laterally; frons smooth with a sharp mid-longitudinal carina reaching median ocellus and lateral curved carina toward lateral ocellus; antenna with more than 35 flagellomeres; mesopleuron with epicnemial carina reaching level of mesopleural pit; subtegular ridge concave, laterally flanged; fore wing with 2m–cu slightly apical to rs–m; tergite 1 slender; tergites 1–5 smooth, following tergites densely and finely punctate; apical margins of tergites 3–7 strongly concave. CT 2.7; ML 0.5; POL 1.3; OOL1.6; Fl 1 4.2; Fl 15 1.8; T1 1.7; OT 5.2.
Differential diagnosis
A mostly bright yellow species with hyaline wings, otherwise characterized by the combination of the punctate clypeus, the concave and flanged subtegular ridge, and the sharp mid-longitudinal carina on the frons, which separates this species from other yellow species with hyaline wings (these species have a strigose or hardly sculptured clypeus, and all of them except E. uelensis have no flange on the subtegular ridge).
Etymology
Dedicated to Gavin Broad for his constant support and his most valuable advice.
Type material
Holotype
CAMEROON: ♀, Nkoemvon, 02°48’N 11°08’E, 16 Mar.–4 May 1980. Ms D. Jackson (BMNH).
Description
Female (holotype)
B 15.7; A NA; F 12.1.
COLOR. Bright yellow overall with black markings: mandible, mid-apical tubercle on clypeus, vertex, temple, occiput mid-dorsally, mesoscutum but postero-lateral margins and a central macula, and a small mid-posterior macula on tergites 3–6; flagellum and ovipositor sheath dark brown; wings hyaline, slightly infuscate apically, venation brown.
HEAD. Face rugulose punctate, moderately protruding dorsally; clypeus punctate, with a moderate subapical median tubercle, ventral margin strongly produced laterally; mandible stout; frons smooth; inner margins of toruli expanded backwards into two converging lamellar carinae, carinae then fused into a sharp mid-longitudinal carina reaching median ocellus; frons also with an additional lateral curved carina from posterior margin of torulus to next to lateral ocellus; inter-ocellar area rugose, remainder of vertex and temple finely punctate; occipital carina mid-dorsally evanescent; antenna with more than 35 flagellomeres (apices broken).
MESOSOMA. Mesosoma moderately densely punctate, but mesonotum deeply transversely striate and anterior half of pronotum smooth; epomia very weak; epicnemial carina reaching level of mesopleural pit; apex of subtegular ridge concave, strongly flanged laterally; submetapleural carina slightly and evenly narrowed toward apex.
WINGS. Fore wing with 2m–cu slightly apical to rs–m, cu–a slightly apical to Rs&M, and Rs strongly bowed forwards; hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu joining Cu&cu–a close to junction with M.
METASOMA. Tergite 1 moderately slender; tergites 1–5 mostly smooth, apex of tergite 5 and following tergites finely and densely punctate; apical margins of tergites 3–7 strongly concave.
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Cameroon.
description: Published as part of Rousse, Pascal & Noort, Simon Van, 2014, A review of the Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with the descriptions of five new species, pp. 1-42 in European Journal of Taxonomy 91 (91) on pages 14-17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.91, http://zenodo.org/record/3836824