Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world
Author
Fernandez-Triana, Jose L
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0425-0309
Canadian National Collection of insects, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
cnc.braconidae@gmail.com
Author
Boudreault, Caroline
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4511-2626
Canadian National Collection of insects, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2018
2018-06-25
64
25
140
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453
1314-2607-64-25
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Carlmuesebeckius smithsonian Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
sp. n.
Fig
. 12
Holotype
.
Female, Madagascar, CAS.
Holotype labels.
nrRogezMadag./Mar.'47 900M/C. Lamberton. Second label: New Genus/Det. Ti. Ridge/W.R.M.
Mason'
81. Third label: CNC924667.
Holotype locality.
MADAGASCAR, near Rogez, 900m.
Diagnosis.
This is the only known species in the genus so far, thus the generic diagnosis works as the species diagnosis as well.
Description.
Female. Body color mostly honey-yellow, except for head mostly brown (but with yellow mandibles, labrum, clypeus and face centrally), antenna with scape and pedicel yellow and flagellomeres brown. Wings slightly infumated, with most veins golden-yellow, except for brown pterostigma and fore wing veins R1, r and 2RS. Flagellomeres with three rows of placodes. Head relatively wide, with eyes slightly convergent ventrally and malar line relatively long. Pronotum dorsally of normal proportions, not enlarged, its median length (on a dorsal view) thinner than width of flagellomeres. Mesosoma, except for propodeum, mostly smooth. Propodeum with areola strongly defined by sharp and raised carinae, transverse carinae forking around big spiracles. Fore wing without areolet. Hind wing with vannal lobe more or less straight and entirely setose. Tarsal claws pectinate, with two teeth near base. T1 with longitudinal striae on posterior 0.6, and with a strong and raised median carina for most of its length. T2+ smooth. Hypopygium uniformly sclerotized. Ovipositor sheaths uniformly setose and clearly shorter than metatibia length. Ovipositor bulging near apex and with two subapical serrate teeth on lower (first) valvulae.
Body measurements (mm).
F2 L: 0.46; F3 L: 0.44; Malar sulcus L: 0.09; Mandible W: 0.16; T1 L: 0.75; T1 W at posterior margin: 0.49; T1 maximum W: 0.61; T2 L: 0.23; Metafemur L: 1.56; Metafemur W: 0.44; Metatibia L: 1.90; Inner spur L: 0.65; Outer spur L: 0.33; First segment of Metatarsus L: 1.05; Ovipositor sheaths L: 1.44; Body L: 4.60; Fore wing L: 5.30. T1 L is approximate.
Male
.
Unknown.
Biology.
Host unknown.
Distribution.
Madagascar.
Molecular
data.
No molecular data available.
Etymology.
Named after the National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States, in recognition of the outstanding and important collection of 35+ million insect specimens that institution holds, including one of the largest and most complete
Microgastrinae
collections in the world.