Lytopylus flavicalcar

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Lytopylus

Name

Lytopylus flavicalcar (Enderlein) comb. n. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

• Metriosoma flavicalcar Enderlein 1920

Description

Body length 8.2 – 9.5 mm. Ovipositor length 9.0 – 10.5 mm. Gena rounded or with an obtuse angle posterolaterally. Longitudinal groove on interantennal prominence absent. Protuberances on occiput absent. Propodeum mostly smooth, lacking areolae. Notauli absent, or indicated by a weak smooth medio-posterior depression. Posterior margin of syntergum 2+3 straight. Median syntergite 2 + 3 smooth, lacking microsculpture. Forewing mostly or entirely infuscate. Color as in Figs 8, 9. Color variation: I have only included specimens here that are colored almost exactly as is the holotype. There are many other specimens from Costa Rica (INBio) that seem structurally to be very similar but differ primarily in that the hind femur is completely melanic. These may or may not be conspecific.

Distribution

Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces, Costa Rica. Click here for a distribution map.

Biology

Unknown.

Material examined

Holotype: ♀, Colombia, Fusagasuga (about 30 km. S. of Bogota), E. Pehlke S. (collector), Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science.

Non-type material:

[HIC, InBio]: Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Buenos Aires: Estacion Altamira: Sendero Los Gigantes: 10.469N, 84.339W, 1450m, 15.vii.-16.viii.2000.♀ H6407, ♀ H6465. Alajuela: Upala: Albergue Heliconias: Sendero Mirador, 10.891N, 85.015W, 1000m, 20–31.viii.2000: ♀ H7082

Taxon Treatment

• Sharkey, M; Clutts, S; Tucker, E; Janzen, D; Hallwachs, W; Dapkey, T; Smith, M; 2011: Lytopylus Förster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) species from Costa Rica, with an emphasis on specimens reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste ZooKeys, 130: 379-419. doi

Images

Figure 8. Lytopylus flavicalcar (Enderlein) a lateral habitus b dorsal habitus c wings.  Figure 9. Lytopylus flavicalcar (Enderlein) a anterior head b dorsal propodeum c lateral head and mesosoma d dorsal head and mesosoma e dorsal metasoma.