Pareumenes (Pareumenes) laterorufofasciatus Giordani Soika, 1944

Pareumenes (Pareumenes) laterorufofasciatus Giordani Soika, 1944 , stat. nov.

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Pareumenes sansibaricus laterorufofasciatus Giordani Soika, 1944: 157 View in CoL (key), 158, ♀

— “ Delagoa : Rikatla ” ( MSNVE) .

Diagnosis. Placed in the subgenus Pareumenes due to the lateral carina of propodeum forming a sharp triangular lobe, the propodeal valvula forming a long lobe strongly exceeding the apex of the propodeum, and the elongate and petiolate T1 with a basal angle, it is recognized from the other species of the subgenus by the mostly impunctate and velvety body, the wide and shallow apical emargination of clypeus, the entirely striate posterior depression of propodeum, the short, flattened and right-angled lateral projections of propodeum, the less elongate T1 (2.05– 2.15× as long as apically wide) with a longitudinal furrow on the convex posterior part, and the pale brownish pubescence.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE OF PAREUMENES SANSIBARICUS LATERORUFOFASCIATUS : ♀ labeled “ Rikatla / Delagoa / ( Junod ) // ♀ // E. Lepelletieri Schulthess / concinnus det. 1911 // HOLOTYPUS / Pareumenes / sansibaricus / v. laterorufofasciatus / n.v. A Giordani Soika [red label]” ( MSNVE).

Distribution. Mozambique ( Giordani Soika 1944, 1973) ( Fig. 13H View FIGURE 13 ).

Notes. Giordani Soika (1944, 1979, 1981) used a broad concept of Pareumenes sansibaricus and divided this species into six subspecies differentiated only by pattern. Examination of the holotype of P. sansibaricus laterorufofasciatus however revealed several morphological characters that allow to consider P. laterorufofasciatus a distinct species: wider gena, entirely striate propodeal depression, T1 more robust, longitudinally furrowed and without translucent apical margin, and pubescence of head and mesosoma brownish and less evident. These characters are shared with P. occidentalis , from which P. laterorufofasciatus is readily distinguished by the short and right-angled lateral projections of propodeum and the entirely red dorsal faces of propodeum.