Allophrys broadi Khalaim, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Khalaim, A. I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Allophrys
Allophrys broadi

description: Allophrys broadi Khalaim, sp. nov.
Figs 9–11, 14–16, 40.
Comparison. Differs from other Afrotropical species of the genus by the apically white flagellum (Fig. 9).
Description. Female. Body length 3.2 mm. Fore wing length 2.15 mm.
Mandible with upper tooth much longer than lower tooth (Fig. 14). Clypeus 3.5× as broad as long, smooth and shining with some punctures on upper and lower margins. Malar space 0.7–0.8× as long as basal width of mandible. Flagellum of antenna basally slender, second flagellomere almost 3.0× and subapical flagellomeres 1.1– 1.2× as long as broad (Fig. 9). Face and frons finely (sometimes indistinctly) punctate on finely granulate background. Temple shining, finely and sparsely punctate on smooth or very shallowly granulate background. Vertex smooth and shining, finely and sparsely punctate, rarely very finely granulate medially. Occipital carina mediodorsally absent.
Mesosoma very finely granulate (partly almost smooth) and indistinctly punctate, dull to weakly shining. Foveate groove well developed, extending across anterior 0.7 of mesopleuron, slightly upcurved anteriorly. Propodeum with basal area narrow, distinctly widened anteriorly, 0.3–0.45× as long as apical area (Fig. 16); sometimes basal longitudinal carinae indistinct and basal area rugulose. Propodeal spiracle separated from pleural carina by about 2.0× diameter of spiracle. Apical area more or less flat.
Fore wing (Fig. 40) with second recurrent vein posteriorly distinct. Brachial cell posteriorly closed although posterior abscissa of postnervulus sometimes very weakly pigmented. Hind wing with nervellus slanted about 35° from horizontal. Legs moderately slender; hind femur 4.3× as long as broad (Fig. 10).
First tergite 4.5× as long as posteriorly broad. Second tergite 2.7–3.0× as long as anteriorly broad. Ovipositor sheath 1.2–1.4× as long as first tergite.
Head black; clypeus yellowish brown ventrally, palpi and mandible (teeth reddish black) yellow to yellowbrown. Antenna brown or blackish with apical 3 to 6 flagellomeres white (Fig. 9); sometimes apical flagellomere fuscous entirely or only apically. Mesosoma and first metasomal segment black. Tegula dark brown. Pterostigma brown. Legs brownish yellow, hind coxa dark brown entirely or basally; hind tibia sometimes infuscate. Metasoma behind first tergite brown to dark brown.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. Named in honour of the British expert in Ichneumonidae, Gavin R. Broad (BMNH).
Material examined. Holotype female (SAMC), South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Winterskloof, S 29°34′56′′, E 30°17′40′′, 1085 m, Malaise trap, 3.III–20.IV.2007, coll. M. Mostovski.
Paratypes. South Africa. Kwazulu-Natal: 3 ♀ (1 ♀ BMNH, 2 ♀ ZISP) same data as holotype. 1 ♀ (SAMC) Ramsgate, Butterfly Sanctuary, S 30°53.3′, E 30°20.4′, Malaise trap, 9.VIII–21.IX.2004, coll. M. Mostovski. 1 ♀ (ZSM) Louwsberg, Sanyati Farm, S 27°34′, E 31°17.9′, 1090 m, Malaise trap, 19–31.VIII.2005, coll. M. Mostovski. 5 ♀ (1 ♀ BMNH, 2 ♀ SAMC, 2 ♀ ZISP) Pietermaritzburg, Hilton Garden, yellow pan trap, 6– 14.III.2005, coll. V.A. Kolyada. Uganda. Central region: 1 ♀ (SAMC) Mulange, XI.1922, coll. R. Dummet, SAM-HYM-P006174.
Distribution. South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal), Uganda (Central region).
description: Published as part of Khalaim, A. I., 2013, Discovery of the South African fauna of Allophrys Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersicochinae), pp. 329-343 in Zootaxa 3701 (3) on page 333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/216398