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- <p><b><i>Epirhyssa shaka</i> sp. nov.</b></p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: CF997FDF-A6A7-49A1-9DCA-C5F781CACEE1</p><p>Fig. 8</p><p><b>Diagnosis</b></p><p>Pale yellow overall with isolated dorsal black markings; wings hyaline, slightly infuscate apically; face rugulose-punctate, weakly bulging; clypeus shallowly longitudinally strigose with a strong subapical median tubercle, ventral margin produced laterally; frons smooth, with a weak mid-longitudinal carina; antenna with 32 flagellomeres; mesopleuron with epicnemial carina reaching level of mesopleural pit; subtegular ridge convex; fore wing with 2m–cu slightly apical to rs–m; tergite 1 slender; tergite 1 smooth, following tergites densely punctate; apical margins of all tergites straight. CT 3.8; ML 0.7; POL 1.3; OOL 1.2; Fl 1 4.5; Fl 15 1.8; Fl 31 1.0; T1 1.7; OT 3.9.</p><p><b>Differential diagnosis</b></p><p>Pale yellow species of relatively small size, otherwise characterized by the combination of the weak mid-longitudinal carina on the frons, the entirely punctate tergite 2 and the slender tergite 1.</p><p><b>Etymology</b></p><p>Refers to King Shaka Zulu, another kind of population regulator of the Zululand region. He would certainly have been proud of giving his name to an ichneumon.</p><p><b>Type material</b></p><p><b>Holotype</b></p><p>SOUTH AFRICA: <b>♀</b>, Natal. 1.5 km E of Mtunzini, 28°57’S 31°45’E, 2831 Dd Umlalazi Nat. Res., Nov. 1978, R. M. Miller, indigenous forest, Malaise tr. (NMSA).</p><p><b>Description</b></p><p><b>Female</b> (holotype)</p><p>B 11.9; A 9.6; F 8.7.</p><p>COLOR. Pale dull yellow overall with black parts: mandible, ocellar area (macula isolated from eye margin), a median spot on each mesoscutal lobe, scuto-scutellar groove, a mid-longitudinal triangle at base of tergites 4–6; flagellum dark brown; hind tarsus and ovipositor sheath reddish-brown; wings hyaline, barely infuscate apically, venation yellowish.</p><p>HEAD. Face subquadrate, weakly bulging mid-dorsally, rugulose punctate and laterally smoother; clypeus shallowly longitudinally strigose, with a strong and acute subapical median tubercle, ventral margin laterally produced; mandible stout; frons smooth; inner margins of toruli expanded backwards into two</p><p>converging carinae, carinae then fused into a weak mid-longitudinal carina reaching median ocellus; vertex and temple moderately punctate; occipital carina complete; antenna with 32 flagellomeres.</p><p>MESOSOMA. Mesosoma shallowly and moderately densely punctate, but mesonotum deeply transversely striate and anterior half of pronotum smooth; epomia moderate; dorsal faint apex of epicnemial carina reaching level of mesopleural pit; apex of subtegular ridge convex, not flanged laterally; submetapleural carina slightly and evenly narrowed toward apex.</p><p>WINGS. Fore wing with 2m–cu slightly apical to rs–m, cu–a slightly apical to Rs+M, Rs moderately bowed forwards; hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu joining Cu&cu–a close to junction with M.</p><p>METASOMA. Tergite 1 moderately slender, sparsely and shallowly punctate; tergite 2 and following densely punctate; apical margins of all tergites straight. Some other yellow species also sometimes have some punctures on tergite 2 (<i>E. tombeaodiba</i>), but the first tergite of the female is then distinctively stouter.</p><p><b>Male</b></p><p>Unknown.</p><p><b>Distribution</b></p><p>South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).</p>