Xiphentedon danielssoni Gumovsky 2023, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Gumovsky, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Xiphentedon
Xiphentedon danielssoni

description: Xiphentedon danielssoni (Gumovsky, 1997) comb. nov.
Figs 21–23
Entedon (Cederholmia) danielssoni Gumovsky, 1997: 28.
Diagnosis
As for the group and also: entire antenna dark; head dorsally about 2.0 × as wide as long, dorsal interorbital distance nearly 1.5 × median vertexal distance (Fig. 22F); interantennal space with a short sharp process (Fig. 22F); gena notably bulging (Fig. 22A–B); all legs dark at more than proximal ½, just tips of tibiae and femora and three basal tarsomeres of mid and hind legs pale (Fig. 22A); axillular projection bidentate; median propodeal strip Y-shaped, lightly coriaceous, nucha with carinulae (Fig. 21C).
Female
Length about 1.5 mm. Dorsal interorbital distance 1.33 × median vertexal distance; pedicel plus flagellum about 2.0× as long as scape; scape narrow-pear shaped: wide basally, then narrowed and then slightly wider; flagellum with short-ovate segments; eye height 3.5× malar space; gaster about as long as or slightly longer than broad, syntergum wider than broad; CC without setae on ventral surface; WIP with broad red field along apical margin followed by narrow blue, green and violet stripes.
Male
Length about 1.5 mm. Dorsal interorbital distance 1.4× median vertexal distance; eye height about 5.0× malar space; scape nearly evenly widened, slightly wider basally, with very narrow tip, 3.3 × as long as wide; flagellar joints small rounded; F1 about 2.0× as long as wide; clava 2.3× as long as wide with short apical spine; body bright copper to bronze green.
Type material examined
Holotype
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA • ♂; Kwa-Zulu Natal, Richards Bay; 28˚46′ S, 32˚04′ E; loc. 31; 24 Oct. 1994; R. Danielsson leg.; MZLU.
Paratypes
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA • 5 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; MZLU.
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Other material examined
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • 1 ♀; Ituri Province, Mongbwalu mine camp; 1°56′34″ N, 30°02′23″ E; 1224 m a.s.l.; 6–8 Mar. 2015; A. Gumovsky and P. Zaboni leg.; gazebos overnight under Ficus craterostoma (mulumba, in Swahili, strangler fig tree) encircling Mangifera indica after 15 minutes fogging with 0.02% pyrethrum; SIZK • 1 ♀ (scape slightly narrower than in type series); “ Congo belge: Kivu, Rutshuru, 1265 m, vii-1935, G.F. de Witte: 1671”; MRAC.
IVORY COAST • 1 ♂; Katiola-Forêt; 4 Jan. 1981; J.W. Everts leg.; Malaise trap; NHMUK.
REPUBLIC OF GUINEA • 1 ♀; Nimba Mountain, Gouan Camp, gallery forest of Zié; 07°40′23″ N, 08°22′24″ W; 3 Oct. 2011; A. Hernard and D. Van den Spiegel leg.; canopy of trees, under-story shrub layer; 1250 m a.s.l.; fogging 01; DNA-extract A06; MRAC.
Male and female descriptions
See Gumovsky (1997).
Biology
Unknown.
Distribution
RSA (Gumovsky 1997), Ivory Coast, Republic of Guinea, DRC (new record).
Remarks
This species is very close in appearance to X. jeanyvesi sp. nov. and differs from it as described in the key above, and in the remarks on X. jeanyvesi.
description: Published as part of Gumovsky, Alex, 2023, Revision of Xiphentedon Risbec, 1957 and Colpixys Waterston, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with descriptions of new species from the Afrotropics, pp. 1-83 in European Journal of Taxonomy 905 on pages 44-48, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.905.2325, http://zenodo.org/record/10127256