Virgichneumon tenuipes, Riedel, 2024

Virgichneumon tenuipes (BERTHOUMIEU, 1896) View in CoL (figs 17, 39, 60)

Lectotype: (♀) La Macta; 1; type; Rev. Bourb. 96 N 107- 108 p. 193; I. tenuipes n. sp. (Paris), comb.

nov. by DILLER & HORSTMANN (1997), photos of type studied. syn. nov. Ichneumon spicicornis BERTHOUMIEU, 1906: 59 , ♀. Lectotype: (♀) Frendah Alg; type; I. spicicornis BERTH. n sp. (Berth. vid) (Paris), comb. by DILLER

& HORSTMANN (1997), photos of type studied.

Additional material: (♀) Marokko, Moyen Atlas, Tizi-n-Tretten, 1900 m, 24.05.1995, ex pupa Cigaritis zohra , leg. M. SANETRA (ZSM).

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀. Body length 10.0 mm. Flagellum with 30-32 segments, bristle-shaped and pointed apically; 1 st flagellar segment 2.1-2.5× as long as wide; 9 th segment square; widest segments about as long as wide. Temple rather short, strongly and almost linearly narrowed behind eye (fig. 17). OED 1.0× and OOD 1.8× ocellar diameter. Head coarsely punctate, shining. MI 1.2. In profile, gena 0.6× as wide as eye, widest at connection of hypostomal and genal carinae. Hypostomal carina low.

Epicnemial carina not elevated behind fore coxa. Scutellum with lateral carina in basal 0.5. Propodeum with complete carination. Area superomedia halfmoon-shaped, 1.0-1.1× as wide as long; at 7/10 of its length with costula (fig. 39). Hind coxa punctate, shining, without scopa. Hind femur 3.5× as long as wide. External surface of hind tibia with several (6) denticular spines.

Postpetiole densely punctate, smooth, without latero-median carina; median field not separated from lateral field. Gastrocoelus impressed, slightly sculptured. Thyridium weakly impressed, 0.4× as wide as interval between thyridia (fig. 60). 2 nd tergite 1.4-1.5× as wide as long. 2 nd and 3 rd tergites with dense punctures, shining; 4 th tergite with superficial puncture.

Color: black. Flagellar segments 8-12 dorsally, halfmoon-shaped spot of vertex opposite of lateral ocellus, collar, narrow transversal apical stripe on 5 th tergite and 6 th and 7 th tergites almost completely ivory. 1 st to 3 rd or 4 th tergites red, following tergites black. Coxae, trochanters and trochantelli black. Other parts of legs mainly dark brown, fore tibia yellowish frontally, hind tibia with indistinct reddish-brown ring sub-basally. Pterostigma brown, pale proximally.

♁ unknown.

Taxonomical remark: The ♀ resembles Virgichneumon tergenus , but postpetiole without latero-median carina, 5 th tergite with ivory stripe, and 1 st tergite completely red.

New host record: Cigaritis zohra DONZEL, 1847 (Lep. Lycaenidae ) (ZSM).

S t u d i e d m a t e r i a l: from Algeria and Morocco.