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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/9EE42698-A0C2-4796-99D5-C8B40BF6EFC4" authority="Aguirre, Almeida &amp; Shaw" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus haimowitzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haimowitzi">Meteorus haimowitzi Aguirre, Almeida &amp; Shaw</taxonomicName>
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Figures 104-110
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Occipital carina complete; large ocelli, ocellus-ocullar distance 0.3
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ocellar diameter; large ayes, head height 1.3
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eye height; malar space very short, malar space length 0.1
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mandible width basally; mandibles twisted; notauli shallow, not distinctive and rugose; hind coxa strigate; tarsal claw with large lobe; dorsope absent; ventral borders of first tergite joined completely along
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of segment; mesopleuron completely yellow; metanotum dorsally brown, yellow laterally.
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Figures 104-110.
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sp. n. female. 104 Habitus in lateral view 105 head in frontal view 106 head in dorsal view 107 mesoscutum in dorsal view 108 propodeum in postero-lateral view 109 cocoon 110 first tergite in dorso-lateral view.
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">Body color.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">Antenna, face and clypeus yellow; annulus absent; remaining head orange. Propleuron, pronotum, mesopleuron and metapleuron yellow; mesonotum yellow except a couple of faint light brown patches on each lateral mesonotal lobe; metanotum dorsally brown, yellow laterally; propodeum light brown. Pro and metathoracic legs yellow; mesothoracic coxa, trochanter and trochantellus white, remaining leg dark brown. T1 having the basal half and a narrow patch along the distal border yellow, medially black; a median white-yellow broad hourglass-shaped pattern on T2, T3 brown, T4-T8 yellow; sterna yellow. Wing membrane hyaline; stigma brown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">Body length.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="59">5.7 mm.</paragraph>
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.
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Antenna with 31 flagellomeres; flagellar length/width ratios as follows: F1 = 3.6, F2 = 3.3, F3 = 2.8, F29 = 2, F30 = 1.7, F31 = 3.3; head 1.2 wider than high; occipital carina complete; ocellus-ocullar distance 0.3
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ocellar diameter; head height 1.3
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eye height; temple length 0.6
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eye length in dorsal view; vertex in dorsal view descending vertically behind the lateral ocelli; frons smooth and polished; face maximum width 1.4
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minimum width; face strigulate; face minimum width 0.8
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clypeus width; clypeus strigulate; malar space length 0.1
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mandible width basally; mandibles twisted.
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Mesosoma.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Pronotum in lateral view carinate-rugose; propleuron rugulose-costate, with costae divergent posteriorly; notauli shallow, not distinctive and rugose; mesonotal lobes not well defined; central lobe of mesoscutum punctate; scutellar furrow with three carinae; mesopleuron punctate; precoxal sulcus long, narrow and carinate-rugose; most metapleuron surface smooth and polished except irregular to rugose close to the hind coxa; propodeum rugose and devoid of both longitudinal and transversal carinae, median depression absent.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Legs.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Hind coxa strigate; tarsal claw with large lobe.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Wings.</paragraph>
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Wing length 5.3 mm; second submarginal cell of forewing not strongly narrowed anteriorly. Front wing: length of vein r 0.3
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length of vein 3RSa; vein 3RSb straight; length of vein 3RSa 1.2
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length of vein r-m; vein m-cu antefurcal. Hind wing: length of vein 1M 0.9
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length of vein cu-a; length of vein 1M 0.8
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length of vein r-m.
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Metasoma.</paragraph>
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Dorsope absent; ventral borders of first tergite joined completely along
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of segment; first tergite with costae convergent posteriorly; ovipositor thickened basally and straight; ovipositor 1.4
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longer than first tergite.
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Cocoon.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Length 6.6 mm; width 2.8 mm; black-dark brown, loosely wrapped by its silk; the edge of the emergence hole is rough, the cap is missing. The thread is approximately 36 mm long.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Female variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Male variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">COSTA RICA, Heredia, Vara Blanca, 2000 m.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Type specimen.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Holotype female (point mounted), COSTA RICA, Heredia, Vara Blanca, 2000 m, collected IV.27.2002, Kenji Nishida leg., UWIM.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Paratype. Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Costa Rica, Province of Heredia.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Solitary parasitoid reared from its cocoon.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="28" pageNumber="61" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">
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and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus imaginatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imaginatus">Meteorus imaginatus</taxonomicName>
Jones share more morphological features between them than with any other species in the genus; the most relevant are: big eyes, head height 1.3
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or less eye height, occipital carina complete, mandibles completely twisted, notauli shallow and not distinct, tarsal claw with a large lobe, first metasomal tergite without dorsopes and ventral borders of first tergite completely joined along
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
of segment.
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus hamowitzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hamowitzi">Meteorus hamowitzi</taxonomicName>
differs from
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by the metanotum dorsally black-dark brown and laterally yellow (metanotum completely black-dark brown in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus imaginatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imaginatus">Meteorus imaginatus</taxonomicName>
), hind legs yellow (hind legs dark brown in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus imaginatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imaginatus">Meteorus imaginatus</taxonomicName>
) and mesonotal lateral lobes mostly yellow (mesonotal lateral lobes dark brown in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus imaginatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imaginatus">Meteorus imaginatus</taxonomicName>
). Interestingly another conspicuous character to distinguish both species is in the cocoon, which is ornamented with a crown-like silk arrangement nearby the opening apex in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus imaginatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imaginatus">Meteorus imaginatus</taxonomicName>
, but this is absent in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus haimowitzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="61" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haimowitzi">Meteorus haimowitzi</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation author="Jones, GZ" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="47" pageNumber="80" pagination="1 - 23" title="Ten new species of Meteorus (Braconidae: Hymenoptera) from Ecuador reared at the Yanayacu Biological Center for Creative Studies." url="http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03547p023f.pdf" volume="3547" year="2012">Jones and Shaw 2012</bibRefCitation>
, p. 10, fig. 21).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="28" pageNumber="61">This species is named after our entomologist colleague and parasitoid-lover Larry Haimowitz.</paragraph>
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