Review of Apantelessensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica
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Fernandez-Triana, Jose L.
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Whitfield, James B.
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Rodriguez, Josephine J.
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Smith, M. Alex
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Janzen, Daniel H.
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Hallwachs, Winnie D.
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Hajibabaei, Mehrdad
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Burns, John M.
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Solis, M. Alma
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Brown, John
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Cardinal, Sophie
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Goulet, Henri
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Hebert, Paul D. N.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418
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Apanteles petronariosae
Fernandez-Triana
sp. n.
Figs 89, 268
Apanteles
Rodriguez61 (
Smith et al. 2006
). Interim name provided by the authors.
Type locality.
COSTA RICA, Alajuela, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Sendero
Tucan
, 410m, 10.90424, -85.2712.
Holotype.
♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. COSTA RICA: Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Sendero Tucan, 14.xi.2006, 410m, 10.90424, -85.2712, 06-SRNP-44315. 2. DHJPAR0012799. 3. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de
Conservacion
Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 06-SRNP-44315.
Paratypes.
6 ♀ (CNC, NMNH, BMNH). Costa Rica: Alajuela, ACG database codes: 02-SRNP-6035, 06-SRNP-30165, 06-SRNP-32791, 09-SRNP-71961, 09-SRNP-72872, 10-SRNP-70644.
Description.
Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex dark. 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): 4.0 mm or more. Fore wing length: 4.0 mm or more.
Ocular-ocellar
line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3-2.5,
2.6
-2.8, rarely 2.0-2.2 or 2.9-3.1. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 2.3-2.5 or 2.6-2.9. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.1-1.3. Tarsal claws: pectinate. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.6-0.7. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0
x
its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: with punctures near margins, central part mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8, rarely 5 or 6. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.6-0.7. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.0-2.2. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less
parallel-sided
. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: with some sculpture near lateral margins and/or posterior 0.2-0.4 of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 4.0-4.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: with some sculpture, mostly near posterior margin. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent,
semi-desclerotized
area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0-5.0
x
posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.8-0.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.3 or more. 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: clearly outwards, inclined towards fore wing apex. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.
Male. Unknown.
Molecular data.
Sequences in BOLD: 12, barcode compliant sequences: 11.
Biology/ecology.
Solitary (Fig. 268). Hosts:
Hesperiidae
,
Ouleus dilla baru
.
Distribution.
Costa Rica, ACG.
Etymology.
We dedicate this species to Petrona
Rios
in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de
Parataxonomos
and
Estacion
Biologica
Pitilla of ACG.