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Key to species of Genaemirum (Ichneumoninae)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Ichneumoninae)

ClassificationIdentification keys


1 Male: known only for G. varianum (A) and G. phagocossorum (B) …2

- Female (a, b) …3
 


2 Metasoma yellowish-orange with tergite 1 dark reddish-brown (A); hind femur and tibia yellowish-orange (A); antennal scrobe extends to eye margins (B) …Genaemirum varianum (Tosquinet)

- Metasoma uniformly dark reddish-brown (a); hind femur and tibia dark reddish-brown (a); antennal scrobe less extensive, ending an ocellar diameter from eye margins (b) …Genaemirum phagocossorum Rousse, Broad & van Noort

 


3 Frons with pronounced, horn-like projections pointed upward (A, B) …4

- Frons with a bisinuate transverse lamella (a), that may have minor projections (b) …7
 


4 Lower gena produced into a long spade-like protrusion (A, B); clypeus exceptionally expanded (A, B) …5

- Lower gena not expanded (a), or distinctly less expanded into a backward curved collar (b) ...6
 


5 Clypeus apically slightly convex, gena moderately protruded (A); metasoma brownish-black (B)  …Genaemirum doryalidis Heinrich

- Clypeus apically deeply emarginate, gena dramatically protruded (a); metasoma yellowish-orange (b)  …Genaemirum phacochoerus Broad, Rousse & van Noort
 


6 General coloration black (A); lower gena expanded into a backward curved collar (B) …Genaemirum mesoleucum Heinrich

- General coloration dark red (a); lower gena not expanded (b) …Genaemirum vulcanicola Heinrich
 


7 Frons with a forked, horn-like projecting carina above the antennal scrobes (A); second tergite medially punctate (B) ...8


- Frons with a broad to acute cordate lamella above the antennal scrobes (a); second tergite medially longitudinally strigose (metasoma lacking in ♀ allotype of Genaemirum varianum, but ♂ holotype tergite is longitudinally strigose) (b) …9
 


8 Apical margin of clypeus evenly rounded (A); tergite 1 puncto-striate laterally (B); ventral part of occipital carina slightly sinuate and not directed inward in lateral view (C); head and mesosoma bright red interspersed with numerous large yellow markings (A, C); metasoma and legs yellowish-orange with hind coxae largely white …Genaemirum rhinoceros Heinrich

 

- Apical margin of clypeus slightly truncate in the middle (a); tergite 1 punctate laterally (b); ventral part of occipital carina strongly sinuate and directed inward in lateral view (c); head and mesosoma black interspersed with numerous large reddish-brown markings (a, c); metasoma and legs reddish-brown with hind coxa largely black ...Genaemirum filipazzii Dal Pos & Rousse
 


9 Metasoma, hind femora and tibiae yellowish-orange (A); frons with a broad cordate lamella above the antennal scrobes (B) ...10

- Metasoma, hind femora and tibiae reddish (a); frons with an acute cordate lamella above the antennal scrobes (b) …Genaemirum phagocossorum Rousse, Broad & van Noort

 


10 Lower gena expanded into a backward curved, bluntly triangular, protuberance (A); wings hyaline (B) …Genaemirum varianum (Tosquinet)

- Lower gena not expanded into a backward curved protuberance (a); wings infuscate (b) … Genaemirum fumosum Broad, Rousse & van Noort

 


References

Dal Pos D. & Rousse P. 2018. First record of the genus Genaemirum (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from West Africa, with the description of a new species from Guinea. European Journal of Taxonomy 473: 1–11.
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.473

Rousse P, Broad GR & van Noort S. 2016. Review of the genus Genaemirum Heinrich (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) with interactive identification keys to species. ZooKeys 636: 77-105. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.636.10216

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or Gavin Broad (Natural History Museum, London), or David Dal Pos (University of Central Florida).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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