Aspilota stigmalis
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Aspilota
Name
Aspilota stigmalis Papp, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Holotype ♀:
COLOMBIA, Magdalena PNN Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Bella Vista, 10°48'N, 73°39'W, 1500 m, Malaise trap, 1–15 June 2001, leg. J. Cantillo. – Holotype is in good condition: (1) glued on a card point by the right mesopleuron, (2) left antenna missing ultimate or 19th antennomere (17th flagellomere), (3) right pair of wings less visible owing to mounting and to the apically creased fore wing.
Etymology
The species name stigmalis refers to the large pairs of spiracles on the propodeum and first tergite (Figs 5, 9).
Description
Body 3 mm long. Antenna as long as head, mesosoma and tergites 1–2 combined, with 19 antennomeres. Scape twice as long as broad apically and somewhat belly, first flagellomere 1.2 times as long as second, second flagellomere somewhat thicker than first, first flagellomere 3.7 times and second 2.5 times as long as broad (Fig. 1). Head in dorsal view transverse, almost 1.9 times as broad (between temples) as long (between compound eye and temple), temple slightly swollen, eye almost 1.3 times as long as temple (Fig. 2). Eye in lateral view 1.7 times as high as wide and just wider than gena, gena evenly broad beyond eye. Mandible along its lower margin 1.8 times as long as broad between upper and lower teeth, both teeth rounded (Fig. 3). Tentorial pit fairly large and extending to lower part of eye (Fig. 4). Head polished.
Mesosoma in lateral view stout, somewhat longer than high, polished. Notauli short, restricted to anterior declivous part of mesoscutum and finely crenulate. Pronope missing. Precoxal suture short, crenulate, medially on mesopleuron. Propodeum areolate, spiracles large, otherwise propodeum smooth and shiny, on its upper corner foveolate depressed (Fig. 5). Hind femur 3.8 times as long as broad distally (Fig. 6). Hind tibia slightly longer than hind tarsus.
Fore wing as long as body. Pterostigma linear (Fig. 7), r long, 3.5 times as long as width of pterostigma. Second submarginal cell long, 3–SR 2.3 times as long as 2–SR, r–m as long as r. First discal cell: 1–M 1.9 times as long as 1–SR–M (Fig. 8).
First tergite (Fig. 9) long, twice as long as posteriorly broad, spiracles large and at middle of tergite, pair of basal keels reaching spiracles, hind half of tergite striolate. Tergites 2–3 fully fused (i.e. border between tergites indistinct) and together with further tergites polished. Ovipositor sheath as long as mid tibia.
Scape and pedicel yellow, flagellum darkening brown. Head and mesosoma chestnut dark brown. Mouthparts whitish. First tergite brownish yellow, tergites 2–3 brownish, remaining tergites chestnut dark brown. Legs pale yellow. Tibiae apically and tarsi faintly light brownish. Wings hyaline, pterostigma brown, veins light brown.
Male and host
unknown.
Distribution
Colombia.
Diagnosis
The new species, Aspilota stigmalis, is nearest to Aspilota phyllotomae Fischer (Fischer 1970[1]: 124) with their common features being the transverse head in dorsal view, first tergite 2.1 times as long as broad posteriorly, dentation of mandible and chestnut brown ground colour of body. The two species are distinguished by the following characters (Aspilota phyllotomae is known only by its original description: Fischer 1970[1]: 125):
Original Description
- Papp, J; 2012: Five new braconid species from Colombia (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 28: 67-84. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fischer M (1970) Revision der nearktischen Aspilota-Arten der Sektion D und Ergänzungen zu anderen Artengruppen (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 74: 91-127.
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