Ypsilonigaster pteroloba (de Saeger, 1944) comb. n.

Fig. 42

Microgaster pteroloba de Saeger, 1944. Original description (de Saeger 1944: 65).

Holotype.

Female, Democratic Republic of the Congo, RMCA ( Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium). Not examined, but original description checked.

Diagnosis.

Y. pteroloba can be separate from all known species of Ypsilonigaster (except for Y. bumbana) based on its darker body color (dark brown to black) and infumated wings (all other species are mostly yellow or white-yellow, or have body with striking contrast of four different colors between areas, and all have hyaline wings). Y. pteroloba can in turn be differentiated from Y. bumbana because the later has a mostly red-yellow body color, a less constricted T1 and the fore wing veins r and 2RS join in a more acute angle (compare Figs 40A, B with Fig. 42A, B).

Biology.

Host unknown.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Molecular data.

No molecular data available.