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Image of Dicaelotus hoerikwaggoensis Rousse & van Noort
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Dicaelotus hoerikwaggoensis Rousse & van Noort

Description

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FEMALE (2 specimens). B 4.8–5.1; A 3.0–3.2; F 3.0–3.4 (Holotype B 5.1; A 3.2; F 3.4). Color. Head yellow with black and brown parts; black: frons, vertex but two small triangles antero–posteriorly, occiput, temple and genae; brown: antenna and face around median protuberance; mesosoma mainly black with a yellow longitudinal stripe on lateral part of pronotum, another one on mesopleuron, propleuron and ventral part of pronotum and mesopleuron fading to reddish; wings hyaline, venation light brown; fore and middle legs testaceous with coxae and trochanters yellow, hind leg brownish with coxa and trochanter largely tinged with yellow; metasomal tergite 1 black, the following blackish brown and apically yellow. Head. Transverse in dorsal view, shining; mandible sparsely punctate, moderately long, regularly narrowed to apex; malar line long, subocular sulcus present as a wide and shagreened groove; clypeus sparsely punctate, transverse, lenticular; face transverse, moderately densely punctate, medially protruding into a blunt square tubercle connected to antennal socket by a short and faint longitudinal carina; frons and vertex finely and sparsely punctate; ocellar triangle about equilateral; hypostomal carina joining occipital carina distinctly above mandibular base; antenna stout and short, flagellum not enlarged nor flattened, with 24–25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma. Entirely shining; pronotum longitudinally strigose, except upper third moderately punctate and antero–ventral corner smooth; mesopleuron densely punctate, longitudinally strigose postero–dorsally, speculum smooth; sternaulus deep and crenulate at anterior third; epicnemial carina ventrally moderately expanded between fore coxae; postpectal carina ventrally absent; metapleuron transversally strigose, dorsally smooth; mesonotum finely and moderately punctate, notaulus hardly visible near base; scutellum flat, not carinate; propodeum punctate–rugose but area superomedia centrally smooth and area petiolaris transversely striate, carination complete and strong, area superomedia heart–shaped. Wings. Hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu1 present, non–pigmented. Legs. Stout and densely punctate; hind femur and hind tibia somewhat swollen. Metasoma. Shining; tergites 1–2 sparsely punctate, following tergites almost smooth with isolated fine punctures; ovipositor straight and moderately long. MALE. Unknown.
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Pascal Rousse, Simon van Noort, E. Diller
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Rousse P, van Noort S, Diller E (2013) Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species ZooKeys 354: 1–85
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Pascal Rousse
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Simon van Noort
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E. Diller
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Distribution

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South Africa (Kwazulu–Natal and Western Cape).
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Pascal Rousse, Simon van Noort, E. Diller
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Rousse P, van Noort S, Diller E (2013) Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species ZooKeys 354: 1–85
author
Pascal Rousse
author
Simon van Noort
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E. Diller
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