Malgachemenes angustus Gusenleitner, 1992

Selis, Marco, 2025, The solitary vespid wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae, Raphiglossinae and Zethinae), Zootaxa 5705 (1), pp. 1-171 : 115-116

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Malgachemenes angustus Gusenleitner, 1992 View in CoL

( Figs 48 View FIGURE 48 , 65K View FIGURE 65 )

Malgachemenes angustus Gusenleitner, 1992: 91 View in CoL , 92, figs 1, 2, ♀ —“ Madagaskar: Ankarafantsika ( Forest Reserve) near Marovoay ” (CAS).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀ labelled “ MADAGASCAR: / Ankarafantsika / ( Forest Reserve) / near Marovoay / XII-1-1959 // E. S. Ross / Collector // Malgachemenes ♀ / angustus nov.sp. / J.Gusenleitner,det.1992 // Holotypus [red label] // California Academy / of Sciences / Type No. 16821” ( CAS, code CASTYPE16821).

Description of male (hitherto unknown). Habitus in Fig. 48B View FIGURE 48 . Differing from the female as follows: clypeus 1.05× as wide as long and barely emarginate at apex, apical margin of clypeus translucent, F11 parallel-sided with rounded apex in dorsal view and claw-shaped with bluntly pointed apex in lateral view, reaching basal margin of F9, mesosoma shorter, propodeum more convex above ( Fig. 48C View FIGURE 48 ), lateral lamellar flaps on T3–T5 narrower but more projecting, mandible, labrum, clypeus, interantennal space, inner eye margin, outer face of fore and mid femora, and outer face of fore tibia whitish-yellow.

Distribution. Madagascar: Antsiranana *, Fianarantsoa *, Mahajanga, Toliara * ( Gusenleitner 1992) ( Fig. 65K View FIGURE 65 ).