Pareumenes (Brachyparmenes) rufoniger ( Gusenleitner, 2002 ), 2025

Pareumenes (Brachyparmenes) rufoniger ( Gusenleitner, 2002) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Interzumia rufonigra Gusenleitner, 2002: 307 View in CoL , 317, figs 6, 7, ♀

— “ Zanzibar, Chwaka ” ( WBVI) .

Pareumenes mediator Gusenleitner, 2012: 523 View Cited Treatment , 533, figs 22, 23, ♀ (in subgenus Brachyparmenes )

— “ Zambia, Southern Province, 10 km E Zimba ” ( OLML) . Syn. nov.

Diagnosis. Placed in the subgenus Brachyparmenes due to the short propodeal valvula and the T1 not angled basally, and shares the almost entirely smooth body, the presence of inferior carinae of the propodeum and the short and strongly convex T1 with P. mirificus , from which it is differentiated by the following characters: clypeus longer than wide, tegula with outer margin evenly rounded and posterior lobe right-angled, parategula basally right-angled and with simple apex, T2–T5 entirely black and without translucent apical area, S2 more convex basally than apically and pattern black with dark-red markings.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE OF PAREUMENES MEDIATOR : ♀, labeled: “HOLOTYPUS [red label] // ZAMBIA / SOUTHERN PROVINCE / 10 km E ZIMBA / 24.- 26.12.2002 / A. KUDRNA JR. LGT. // ♀ // Pareumenes / mediator nov. spec. ♀ / J.Gusenleitner,det.2011 / Holotypus // Biologiezentrum Linz, / Austria (LI) / ex Coll. J. & M. Halada / Eingang 2006” ( OLML). SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape, 10 km SE of Alexandria, Nat. Res. , 28–31.I.2000, leg. J. Halada, 1♀ ( OLML, paratype of P. mediator ).

Distribution. South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia ( Gusenleitner 2002, 2012) ( Fig. 13G View FIGURE 13 ).

Notes. The holotype of Interzumia rufonigra was not available for examination, but comparison of its description ( Gusenleitner 2002: 317) with the type series of Pareumenes mediator showed a perfect match in all characters (e.g., reduction to absence of sculpture, morphology of clypeus, propodeum, T1 and S1, pattern). For this reason, Pareumenes mediator is synonymized under Interzumia rufonigra , in the new combination of Pareumenes rufoniger .