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Compsophorus (Compsophorus) maculiceps

Description

Compsophorus (Compsophorus) maculiceps (Cameron, 1903)

Material. Indonesia: C Sulawesi, nr Luwuk, Bunga, c 300 m, 1 ♂ 1–14.xi.1989, Mal. trap 17, leg. C. van Achterberg (Leiden).

Remarks. The colour pattern of this ♂ differs partly from the description of the ♀ of C. maculiceps given by Heinrich (1975: 202–203), it may represent a new subspecies of the widespread species. Body length 14–15 mm. Flagellum with 41 flagellomeres. Hind femur 4.5 × longer than wide. Colour metallic-blue. Flagellum reddish, black dorsally. Palps, mandible except teeth, lateral spots of clypeus, wide facial orbit, narrow frontal obit, gena, tegula, spot of subtegular ridge, scutellum apical band of postpetiole, apical half of 2 nd tergite, narrow apical margin of 3 rd tergite, apical transverse spots on 5 th to 7 tergites, fore and mid coxae and trochanters cream-yellow. Petiole and area of gastrocoelus reddish. Hind coxa metallic-blue; fore and mid femora, tibiae and tarsi reddish; hind femur brown, hind tibia ochreous, black in apical 0.2; hind tarsus black. Wings hyaline; pterostigma black.

Distribution. Known from India, Myanmar and Java, new record for Sulawesi.

Notes

Published as part of Riedel, Matthias, 2023, Contribution to the knowledge of the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Maritime Southeast Asia, pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 5363 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5363.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10146851

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1989-11-01
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Compsophorus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cameron
Species
maculiceps
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1989-11-01/14
Taxonomic concept label
Compsophorus (Compsophorus) maculiceps (Cameron, 1903) sec. Riedel, 2023

References

  • Cameron, P. (1903) Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera taken by Mr. Robert Shelford at Sarawak. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 39, 89 - 181.
  • Heinrich, G. H. (1975) Burmesische Ichneumoninae X. Annales Zoologici, 32, 441 - 513.