Forrestopius wankawillka Alvarado & Palacio 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Alvarado, Mabel
name: Palacio, Edgard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Forrestopius
Forrestopius wankawillka

description: Forrestopius wankawillka Alvarado sp. nov.   
(Figs 8, 10C)  
 Holotype. ♀, “ PERU: HV [Huancavelica], Totoral chico, 12°45’3.15”S / 75°3’17.4”W, 4501 m, 08-17.xii.2013, I. Medina ” (MUSM).   
 Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: mandible with two teeth, scape black (Fig. 8C), face and clypeus forming a continuous surface, pronotum with a single wrinkle arising from pronotal pit (Fig. 8B) with its upper end reaching about lower third of way to anterior margin and concolor black, propodeum without lateromedian longitudinal carinae, and metatarsomeres brownish.   
 Description. Female: Body length 4.3 mm. Fore wing length 3.6 mm.   
 Head. Face and clypeus forming a continuous surface, 1.0× as long as wide, striate with isolated punctures (Fig. 8C); labrum not exposed when mandibles closed; mandibles with two teeth; malar space 1.4× as long as basal mandibular width; lateral ocellus separated from compound eye by about 1.9× maximum ocellar diameter; distance between ocelli 1.5× maximum ocellar diameter; vertex behind ocellar triangle slightly declivous, occiput concave; gena in lateral view 1.3× as long as compound eye; antenna with 20 flagellomeres, ratio of length from second to fourth flagellomeres: 1.2:1.3:1.3, subapical flagellomere elongate, 1.2× as long as centrally broad.   
 Mesosoma. Pronotum with wrinkle arising from pronotal pit, its upper end reaching about lower third of way to anterior margin (Fig. 8B); metapleuron polished with isolated setae, posteroventrally smooth; submetapleural carina scrobiculate, anteriorly expanded into conspicuous triangular lobe. Propodeum without lateromedian longitudinal carina, area basalis + superomedia not delineated; lateral longitudinal carinae absent; posterior transverse carina present only laterally to enclose area coxalis. Fore wing with vein Cu 1 a between Cu 1 b and 2 m-cu 3.0× as long as Cu 1 between Rs & M and 1 m-cu; 2 rs-m 0.7× as long as abscissa of M between 2 rs-m and 2 m-cu. Hind wing with distal abscissa of M indistinguishable, distal abscissa of Cu 1 and 1 A sclerotized throughout. Outer metatibial spur 0.6× as long as inner spur.   
 Metasoma. Tergite I 1.1× as long as posteriorly wide, lateromedian carina absent; tergite II 0.8× as long as posteriorly wide; laterotergite II 0.2× as wide as long; laterotergite III 0.5× as wide as long, wedge-shaped, mesal edge convex.   
 Colour. Head extensively black except mouth parts (mandible black), pedicel and flagellomeres dark brown. Mesosoma black except tibiae and tarsomeres brownish (Fig. 8A), and propodeum black with metallic blue reflection; metasoma black with metallic blue reflections on terga, sterna, ovipositor and valvae brown.   
 Male: Unknown   
 Remarks. This species is probably the one found at highest elevation within Metopiinae (4501 m), it occurs in Puna grassland at difference of other Forrestopius. This species is only known from Peru (Fig. 10C)   
 Etymology. The specific epithet wankawillka means ‘sacred stone’ in the Quechua language. It is treated as a noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Alvarado, Mabel & Palacio, Edgard, 2021, Forrestopius Gauld & Sithole, 2002 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) in South America, pp. 265-282 in Zootaxa 5040 (2) on pages 277-279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5531247