Belonogaster aurata Richards, 1982

Belonogaster aurata Richards, 1982 View in CoL

( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 )

Belonogaster aurata Richards, 1982: 34 View in CoL (key), 59, fig. 14, ♀ – “ Nigeria: Lagos ” ( holotype female NHMUK).

Material examined. IVORY COAST: Tai NP, IET Station , 5°50’N 7°20’31”W, 19.II.1997, leg. R GoogleMaps . Longair , 1♂ ( MSVI); Tai NP, IET Station, 5°50’N 7°20’31”W, 23.II.1997, leg. R GoogleMaps . Longair , 1♀ ( MSVI) .

Description of male (hitherto unknown). Habitus in Figs 2A–B View FIGURE 2 . Body length 17.5 mm; fore wing length 15.0 mm. Differing from female as follows: head ( Fig. 2C View FIGURE 2 ; head of female in Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ) in frontal view as long as wide; inner eye margins more converging below, distance between them at vertex 1.15× as long as distance at clypeus; clypeus smaller and more flattened in dorsal half, free apical part triangular, sharply pointed apically and largely exceeding lateral lobes, covered with sparse white pubescence and scattered black setae; antennal toruli much closer to inner eye margin than to clypeal margin; gena narrower, 0.75× as wide as eye in lateral view; scape almost parallel-sided, 3.5× as long as apically wide; F1 slightly expanded apically, 3.7× as long as wide, 1.8× as long as F2, about as long as F2+F3; F2–F9 becoming progressively shorter, but always longer than wide; F10 longer than F9, flattened, with straight ventral margin and curved dorsal margin, apex rounded; tyloids on F3–F9, short ridges at base and apex on F3, sharp ridges on whole length of F4–F6, raised subtriangular lobes on F7–F9 becoming progressively higher and sharper ( Fig. 2E View FIGURE 2 ); teguments more matte, on mesoscutum with several small punctures between large punctures; T1 proportionally shorter and more expanded after spiracles, 6.5× as long as maximum width; basal petiole of T2 shorter, 2.4× as long as wide ( Fig. 2F View FIGURE 2 ; petiole of female in Fig. 2G View FIGURE 2 ); T7 subtriangular and apically rounded; posterior margin of S6 shallowly emarginated in the middle; S7 trapezoidal with subtruncate apical margin, surface flattened with shallowly raised posterolateral corners. Genitalia in Fig. 2I View FIGURE 2 . Ferruginous-red; following parts suffused with yellow: lateral lobes and apex of clypeus, inner margin of malar space, inner eye margin up to lower margin of ocular sinus; head black from antennal insertions to occipital margin and on dorsal half of hypostoma, scape with an elongate dark spot above, flagellum darkened from apical half of F1, last three flagellomeres less darkened than preceding ones, dorsolateral faces of pronotum becoming darker toward posterior corners, mesoscutum deep black, propodeum becoming progressively darker basally, irregular dark markings on mesepisternum, fore and mid tibia and hind leg darkened, tarsi deep black, metasoma darkened on apical margin of T2 and whole T3–T5.

Distribution. Ivory Coast *, Nigeria ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ).