Clistopyga moraviae Gauld, Ugalde & Hanson, 1998

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 : 72

24. Clistopyga moraviae Gauld, Ugalde & Hanson, 1998

( Figs. 36 , 37 , 50B , Appendix I)

Clistopyga moraviae Gauld, Ugalde & Hanson, 1998: 168 . Holotype: ♀, Costa Rica (MNCR).

Diagnosis. Clistopyga moraviae may be distinguished from all other species of the C. calixtoi species group by the following combination of characters: mesosoma with reddish orange marks ( Figs 35A, 35C–E , 36A, 36C–D ); pronotum black, narrowly white cream dorsally ( Fig. 35D , 36C ); mesopleuron reddish orange with posterior dorsal corner black, subalar prominence mostly black ( Figs 35A, 35D , 36A, 36C ); propodeum entirely black or dark brown ( Fig. 35D, 35I , 36C ); metasoma without posterior defined white or yellow marks on tergites II to VI ( Figs 35F, 35I , 36G ); submetapleural carina absent or at most as weak vestige on anterior part of metapleuron ( Fig. 35E , 36C ). Additionally, female has clypeus prominent, strongly folded at ventral third ( Fig. 35B ) and ovipositor sheath anteriorly with very distinct denticles on ventral margin ( Fig. 35G ). Male has gena in frontal view straight or slightly convex in profile, without any traces or longitudinal concavity posterior to mandible base (36B).

Remarks. Additional characters to the description by Bordera et al. (2014) are as follow: female with hypostomal carina not lamelliform posteriorly to mandible; clypeus prominent, strongly folded at ventral third; anterior half of median lobe not conspicuously prominent, confluent with posterior half; propodeal spiracle about 0.10–0.11 the length to anterior end of pleural carina; hind leg with femur about 3.6–4.1× as long as high.

Material examined.

Type material (1 ♀). Paratype. Costa Rica : ♀, San Jose, 26 Km N San Isidro, 2100m, II–IV–1993, Hanson & Godoy, Gauld det. 98 ( NHMUK) .

Non type material (1 ♀, 1 ♂): Costa Rica: 1 ♂, Buen Amigo , San Luis Monteverde, A.C. Arenal, Prov. Puntarenas, 1000–1350m, V-1994, Z. Fuentes, L_N_250850_449250, #2926 ( MNCR); 1 ♀, Prov. Puntarenas, Cerro Frantzius, 2134m, 29-IX/ 16-XI-1997, R. Villalobos, M. Trap. L_S_334150_574450, #49792 ( MNCR) .

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

Figures

FIGURE 35. Clistopyga moraviae, female (paratype): (A) habitus (lateral view); (B) head (frontal view); (C) head and mesoscutum (dorsal view); (D) head and mesosoma (lateral view); (E) metapleuron; (F) metasoma (lateral view); (G) basal teeth of ovipositor sheaths (arrows); (H) ovipositor (lateral view); (I) metasoma and propodeum (dorsal view). Scale bar: 1 mm (A, D, F, I); 0.5 mm (C); 0.2 mm (B, E, G, H).

FIGURE 36. Clistopyga moraviae, male: (A) habitus (lateral view); (B) head (frontal view); (C) head and mesosoma (lateral view); (D) head and mesoscutum (dorsal view); (E) fore wing; (F) hind wing; (G) metasoma (dorsal view). Scale bar: 1 mm (A); 0.3 mm (C, D, E, G); 0.2 mm (B, F).

FIGURE 37. Clistopyga muisca sp. nov., female: (A) habitus (lateral view, holotype); (B) head (frontal view, holotype); (C) head and mesosoma (lateral view, holotype); (D) head and mesoscutum (dorsal view, holotype); (E) metasoma (dorsal view, holotype); (F) epomia (arrow, paratype); (G) metasoma (lateral view, holotype); (H) ovipositor (lateral view, holotype); (I) metapleuron and propodeum (lateral view, holotype) Scale bar: 1 mm (A, E, G); 0.5 mm (C, D, H); 0.2 mm (B, I); 0.1 mm (F).

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.