Clistopyga calixtoi Gauld, 1991

Bordera, Santiago, Palacio, Edgard & Herrera-Flórez, Andrés Fabián, 2025, The Neotropical species of Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Part VI: the C. calixtoi species group, with the description of twenty-four new species, Zootaxa 5662 (1), pp. 1-115 : 29-32

8. Clistopyga calixtoi Gauld, 1991

( Figs 12 , 13 , 50B , Appendix I)

Clistopyga calixtoi Gauld, 1991: 293 . Holotype: ♀, Costa Rica (MNCR).

Diagnosis. Clistopyga calixtoi may be distinguished from other species of the C. calixtoi species group by the following combination of characters: genal orbits widely and entirely white cream ( Figs 12A, 12C, 12E , 13A, 13E ); mesosoma entirely black (or dark brown) and white ( Figs 12A, 12D–E , 13A, 13D–E ); lateral lobe of mesoscutum black, without a white cream longitudinal lateral stripe ( Figs 12D–E , 13A, 13D–E ); Additionally, female is characterized by metasoma without posterior white cream bands, if insinuated, always less wide as posterolateral dark spots ( Figs 12F, 12I ); ventral part of gena in frontal view straight or slightly concave ( Fig. 12B ); metapleuron, 2.4–2.7× as long as high ( Fig. 12E ); submetapleural carina absent ( Fig. 12E ); propodeum in dorsal view 1.3–1.5× as long as medially wide ( Fig. 12D ). Male has tergites II–VI dark brown to black with anterior and dorsal posterior white cream bands ( Figs 13F, 13G ) and gena with a very deep and conspicuous longitudinal concavity behind mandible basis, the inner and outer margin of this concavity with a tuff of long incurved setae ( Figs 13B–C , arrows).

Remarks. Additional characters to the description by Bordera et al. (2014) are as follow: female with hypostomal carina not lamelliform posteriorly to mandible; epomia as a very short carina at the bottom of the submarginal depression of pronotum; anterior half of median lobe not conspicuously prominent, confluent with posterior half; propodeal spiracle about 0.10–0.13× the length to anterior end of pleural carina; hind leg with femur about 3.85–4.15× as long as high. Male with a very deep and conspicuous longitudinal concavity on gena behind mandible basis, the outer margin of this concavity with a tuff of incurved setae.

Material examined.

Type material (18 ♀♀, 14 ♂♂). Paratypes. Costa Rica : 1♀, Guanacaste Pv. , Guanacaste NP, 400m, Cerro el Hacha, Casa Est. Tacotal, IX-87/I-88, Gauld & Janzen, det Gauld 91 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, Guanacaste Pv. , Guanacaste NP, 560m, Est. Maritza Vn. Orosi, IV /V-88, Gauld & Mitchell, det Gauld 91, INBIO CRI001-100783 ( MNCR) ; 1 ♀, same data, VI-88 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♀, same data, III-89, INBIO CRI001-095964 ( MNCR) ; 1 ♀, same data, IV-V-89 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♀, same data, V-89 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♀, same data, VII-89, INBIO CRI001-100869 ( MNCR) ; 1 ♀, same data, V/VIII-89 ( NHMUK) ; 2 ♀♀, same data, VII-89 ( NHMUK) ; 2♀♀, same data, 550m, VII-89 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂ Guanacaste Pv. , Guanacaste NP, 1000m, Est. Mengo, Vc. Cacao, 1-V-87, Gauld & Janzen ( NHMUK) ; 2 ♂♂, Guanacaste Pv. , Sta. Rosa NP, Bosque Húmedo, 10-O, 2-II/23-III-86, det Gauld 91 ( NHMUK) ; 3 ♂♂, same data, 9-O, 8-II.86/2-III-86 ( NHMUK) ; 3 ♂♂, same data, 11-O, 8-II-86/2-III-86 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 2-O, 20- XI.86/10-I-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 11-O, 20-XI-86/10-I-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 9-O, 10–31-I-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 11-O, 10–31-I-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data 11-O, 18-I-87/8-II-87 ( NHMUK) ; 3 ♀♀, same data, 11-O, 21-I/21-II-87 ( NHMUK) ; 3 ♂♂ same data, 9-O, 31-I-87/21-II-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 11- O, 31-I/2-III-87 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same data, 12-O, 31-I/2-III-87 ( NHMUK) .

Non type material (3 ♀♀, 17 ♂♂). Belize : 1♀, Chiquibul FR, Mountain Pine Ridge , X-97 ; 1♀, 1 ♂, same locality, XI.97, I. Gauld ( NHMUK) . Costa Rica: 3 ♂♂, Guanacaste Pv., Sta. Rosa NP., Bosque Humedo , 11-O, Janzen & Gauld, 18–I/8-II-86, det. Broad, 2007 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same locality and collector, 11-O, Janzen & Gauld, 31-II/23-III-86, det Gauld 2000 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, same locality and collector, 11-O, 14-III/ 4-IV-1986 ( MNHN Paris) ; 11 ♂♂ same locality and collector, 11-O, Janzen & Gauld, 31-I/21-II-87, det Gauld 2000 ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♀, same locality and collector, 11-O, Janzen & Gauld, 14-III/4-IV-87, det Gauld 2000 ( NHMUK) .

Distribution. Belize *, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico ( Fig. 50B , Appendix I).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Clistopyga calixtoi, female (paratype): (A) habitus (lateral view); (B) head (frontal view); (C) head (dorsal view); (D) mesosoma (dorsal view); (E) head and mesosoma (lateral view); (F) metasoma (lateral view); (G) wings; (H) ovipositor (lateral view); (I) metasoma (dorsal view). Scale bar: 1 mm (A, F, G, I); 0.5 mm (D, E, H); 0.2 mm (B, C).

FIGURE 13. Clistopyga calixtoi, male (paratype): (A) habitus (lateral view); (B) head (frontal view); (C) longitudinal concavities of genae with tuff of incurved setae (frontal view, arrows); (D) head and mesosoma (dorsal view); (E) head and mesosoma (lateral view); (F) metasoma (lateral view); (G) metasoma (dorsal view). Scale bar: 1 mm (A, F, G); 0.5 mm (D, E); 0.2 mm (B, C).

FIGURE 50. Geographic distribution of C. calixtoi species group: (A) C. aurantia sp. nov., C. fernandezi Gauld, C. maya Gonzalez-Moreno & Bordera, C. oaxacana Gonzalez-Moreno & Bordera; (B) C. calixtoi Gauld, C. moraviae Gauld, Ugalde & Hanson.