Apanteles carolinacanoae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Apanteles
Name
Apanteles carolinacanoae Fernández-Triana sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type locality
COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Horizontes, Sitio La Dama, 105m, 10.78626, -85.55835.
Holotype
♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Horizontes: Esperanza, 09/21/1994. 2. 94-SRNP-7527, Pyrgus adepta, Sida acuta. 3. DHJPAR0001561.
Paratypes
29 ♀, 11 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA: ACG database codes: 92-SRNP-4401, 92-SRNP-5190, 93-SRNP-3572, 93-SRNP-3573, 93-SRNP-3574, 93-SRNP-3681, 93-SRNP-3735, 93-SRNP-4176, 93-SRNP-6388, 93-SRNP-6748, 93-SRNP-7311, 95-SRNP-8417, 95-SRNP-8471, 97-SRNP-3898, 04-SRNP-46868, 04-SRNP-50139, 05-SRNP-4197, 06-SRNP-311, 09-SRNP-72610, 10-SRNP-67708, 11-SRNP-69640.
Description
Female. Body color: head and mesosoma mostly dark, metasoma with some tergites and/or most of sternites pale. Antenna color: scape and/or pedicel pale, flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, pale, pale. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, pale. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna shorter than body (head to apex of metasoma), not extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.3–2.4 mm or 2.5–2.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.5–2.6 mm or 2.7–2.8 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.3–2.5. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4–1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3–2.5. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4–1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0–2.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine–like seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0–3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4–0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 9 or 10. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4–0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, but only partial or absent transverse carina. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.3–2.5. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less parallel–sided. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 4.0–4.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area); with no pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0–5.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.0–1.1. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.4–1.6. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.4–1.6. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.7–0.8. Pterostigma length/width: 3.1–3.5. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: clearly beyond half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.
Male. Darker specimens, with narrower mediotergites 1 and 2.
Molecular data
Sequences in BOLD: 15, barcode compliant sequences: 9.
Biology/ecology
Gregarious (Fig. 245). Hosts: Hesperiidae, Pyrgus adepta, Pyrgus oileus.
Distribution
Costa Rica, ACG.
Etymology
We dedicate this species to Carolina Cano in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Parataxónomos and Estación Biológica San Gerardo of ACG.
Original Description
- Fernández-Triana, J; Whitfield, J; Rodriguez, J; Smith, M; Janzen, D; Hallwachs, W; Hajibabaei, M; Burns, J; Solis, M; Brown, J; Cardinal, S; Goulet, H; Hebert, P; 2014: Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica ZooKeys, 383: 1-565. doi
Other References
- ↑ Smith M, Woodley N, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, Hebert P (2006) DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 3657-3662. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511318103
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