Apanteles rosibelelizondoae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Apanteles
Name
Apanteles rosibelelizondoae Fernández-Triana sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type locality
COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector San Cristobal, Bosque Trampa Malaise, 815m, 10.86280, -85.38460.
Holotype
♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. San Gerardo: MT, San Cristobal, 18-24 Jan. 2008. 2. DHJPAR0027647.
Description
Female. Body color: head dark, mesosoma dark with parts of axillar complex pale, metasoma with some mediotergites, most laterotergites, sternites, and/or hypopygium pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, pale, pale. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: dark. Fore wing veins color: mostly dark (a few veins may be unpigmented). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.7–2.8 mm. Fore wing length: 2.9–3.0 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.6 or more. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4–1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.9–3.1. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.1–1.3. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0–2.2. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 3.4–3.5. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4–0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly smooth or with shallow sparse punctures, except for anterior 0.3 where it has deeper and/or denser punctures. Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 3 or 4. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4–0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.9–3.1. Mediotergite 1 shape: clearly narrowing towards posterior margin. 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: 2.8–3.1. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: more or less fully sculptured, with longitudinal striation. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width at most 2.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.8–0.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.1–1.3. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.1–1.3. 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: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: clearly outwards, inclined towards fore wing apex. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: strongly angulated, sometimes with a knob.
Male. Unknown.
Molecular data
Sequences in BOLD: 26, barcode compliant sequences: 25.
Biology/ecology
Solitary (Fig. 302). Hosts: Crambidae, 11 species including Microthyris prolongalis, Salbia haemorrhoidalis, Salbia cassidalis, Herpetogramma salbialis Eulepte Janzen03, Neurophyseta completalis, and Ategumia lotanalisDHJ07; Tortricidae, one possible species, Paramorbia Brown001DHJ01.
Distribution
Costa Rica, ACG.
Comments
This species is characterized by mediotergite 2 fully sculptured with longitudinal striation, and extensive yellow-orange coloration (including tegula and humeral complex, parts of the axillar complex, most of laterotergites 1-4, all sternites, and hypopygium).
Etymology
We dedicate this species to Rosibel Elizondo in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Educacion Biológica.
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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