Seven new species of Notiospathius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) from Northwest Venezuela Author Lopez-Estrada, E. Karen Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 3 er. circuito exterior s / n, Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacan, A. P. 70 - 233, C. P. 04510, D. F., Mexico Author Briceno, G. Rosa Universidad Centroccidental " Lisandro Alvarado ", Decanato de Agronomia, Depto. de Ciencias Biologicas, seccion Entomologia, Cabudare, Estado de Lara, Venezuela Author Smith, M. Alex Department of Integrative Biology, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Author Juliano Fiorelini Nunes, Fundacao de Ensino Superior de Passos FESP / UEMG, Av. Juca Stockler, 1130, Bairro Belo Horizonte, CEP 37900 - 106, Passos, MG, Brasil Author Penteado-Dias, Angelica M. Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva da Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Cx. Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, Sao Carlos, SP, Brasil Author Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 3 er. circuito exterior s / n, Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacan, A. P. 70 - 233, C. P. 04510, D. F., Mexico Author Clebsch, Hans The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106 - 1767, USA Author Zaldivar-Riveron, Alejandro Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 3 er. circuito exterior s / n, Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacan, A. P. 70 - 233, C. P. 04510, D. F., Mexico text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2012 2012-10-15 29 37 62 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.29.3555 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.29.3555 1314-2607-29-37 9852743DB889435C81356AE110493CB4 FFFBFFA8C60FFFB7FFA95769FF82FFAB 574795 Notiospathius araguae Lopez-Estrada & Zaldivar-Riveron sp. n. Figs 1A-E Diagnosis. This species runs to Notiospathius platycorsus Marsh in Marsh's (2002) key to Costa Rican species and its Zaldivar-Riveron and De Jesus-Bonilla's (2010 , 2011 ) extension; however it differs from the latter species by having the propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black (mesosoma dark brown, metasoma honey yellow or light brown in Notiospathius platycorsus ); and frons striate (rugose to rugose-costate in Notiospathius platycorsus ). Description. Female. Colour : Head light brown; scape light brown to honey yellow; flagellomeres brown turning dark brown, the last 10 white; palpi pale yellow to white. Mesonotum brown; propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black; second and third metasomal tergites brown; remaining metasomal tergites dark brown except two last metasomal tergite, which are honey yellow; ovipositor and sheaths brown. Fore and middle coxae, trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femora and tibiae light brown; tarsi dark brown; hind coxa black; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femur, tibia and tarsi ligth brown to brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma brown; tegula pale yellow. Body length : 3.2 mm (lateral view); ovipositor 1.5 mm. Head : Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate, temple and gena smooth; eye about 1.6 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.1 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.4 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance four times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 26 flagellomeres . Mesosoma : Length of mesosoma two times its maximum height; pronotum rugose, lateral area of pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and scrobiculate; propleuron slightly striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli wide and scrobiculate, meeting in scutellum in a costate area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both wide, deep and scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculated, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum strongly rugose; apical lateral corners without distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings : Fore wing length 4.4 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.3 times its maximum width; vein r 0.4 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a interstitial to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.3 times length of vein 1M. Legs : hind coxa rugose, without basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora smooth. Metasoma : First metasomal tergite rugose, length five times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite mostly smooth, only indistinctly costate near basal suture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites indistinct; third metasomal tergite and remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 0.9 times length of metasoma. Male . Smaller than female; body length 3 mm; head brown, orbit surrounding eyes yellow; antenna with 23 flagellomeres; second and third metasomal tergites light brown. Holotype. Female (IB-UNAM CNIN). Venezuela, Aragua, Henri Pittier National Park, 10.37428 , -67.59279 , 1070m, montane cloud forest/riparian, H. Clebsch, 7-11.x.08. DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC207-11, GenBank accession no. JN266962. Paratypes. One specimen, male (DCBU). Same data as holotype, DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC210-11; GenBank accession no. JN266965. Biology. Unknown. Etymology. The name of this species refers to the Venezuelan state where both type specimens were collected. Figure 1. Notiospathius araguae sp. n.Female. Holotype: A habitus, lateral view B head, dorsal view C mesosoma, lateral view D mesosoma, dorsal view E first and second metasomal tergites, dorsal view.