Hyposoter pseudovalidus Galsworthy & Shaw & Haraldseide 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Galsworthy, Anthony
name: Shaw, Mark R.
name: Haraldseide, Håkon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hyposoter
Hyposoter pseudovalidus

description: Hyposoter pseudovalidus Galsworthy & Shaw sp. nov.
(Figs. 33, 34)
Diagnosis. The dark tegulae and dark hind femora immediately separate this species from other red-bodied Hyposoter, apart from H. validus and a few specimens of H. dolosus. It can readily be separated from both of these by the unusual shape of the first metasomal segment, which lacks any hint of a glymma.
Description. Female: fore wing 6 mm.
Head: face more or less quadrate, rugose without obvious punctures; clypeus convex, narrow, similarly sculptured, extreme apex sharp and smooth; malar space two thirds of basal width of mandibles; frons and vertex sculptured as face; temples granulate, sharply narrowing behind eyes in dorsal view, width about equal to width of eyes; antenna narrow and tapered to apex, 34–37 flagellomeres.
Mesosoma: mesoscutum granulate and matt, with close-set punctures throughout; pronotum similar, with transverse rugae in addition; mesopleuron entirely matt, finely rugose and granulate with punctures almost hidden, speculum with stronger transverse rugae; metapleuron rugosely granulate; scutellum broad, transverse, rugosely granulate; propodeum similarly sculptured, dorsal and petiolar surfaces curving together without an abrupt transition; propodeal carinae strongly reduced, delineating only a narrow trapezoidal area basalis, and the anterior part of broad transverse area superomedia; costulae present only at base, and petiolar area margined only in dorsal third; petiolar area concave.
Wings: 1 cu-a postfurcal; areolet a broadly-based diamond shape, sessile; nervellus not intercepted.
Metasoma: first tergite narrow and parallel-sided at base, broadening smoothly to a well-rounded quadrate postpetiole, the whole matt with fine sculpture: glymma completely absent. Tergite 2 elongate, gradually broadening to apex; tergites 3–5 elongate, parallel-sided; tergites 6–7 entire; ovipositor only slightly protruding from apex of metasoma, sheaths very short.
Colour: black; apices of fore and mid femora, and rest of fore and mid legs orange; hind tibia orange, the apical quarter darkened; apical half of tergite 2 and the whole of tergites 3 and 4 orange. Sternites 1–2 orange.
Holotype: ♀, Ober-Bayern, Mittenwald, Hasel-Lähne, bei ca. 1000m, 20.vi.1924, E. Bauer ; Anilasta cf valida Pfankuch det A. Roman, Anilasta valida Pfankuch ♀ det. H. Habermehl, [a further handwritten label in indecipherable script], Anilasta valida Pfankuch det E. Bauer, [in Horstmann’s hand] cf. validus (ZSM). Paratype: 1♀, Ober-Bayern, Garmisch, Ettaler Berg, ca. 800m, 15.vi.1952, A. Dietl, Anilasta valida Pfankuch det E. Bauer. (ZSM).
Remarks. Male and biology unknown. Identified as an undescribed species by Horstmann.
description: Published as part of Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 5290 (1) on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5290.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7959256