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 carolinacanoae
Fernandez-Triana
sp. n.
Figs 52, 245
Apanteles
Rodriguez04 (
Smith et al. 2006
). Interim name provided by the authors.
Type locality.
COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Horizontes, Sitio La Dama, 105m, 10.78626, -85.55835.
Holotype.
♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Horizontes: Esperanza, 09/21/1994. 2. 94-SRNP-7527,
Pyrgus adepta
,
Sida acuta
. 3. DHJPAR0001561.
Paratypes.
29 ♀, 11 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA: ACG database codes: 92-SRNP-4401, 92-SRNP-5190, 93-SRNP-3572, 93-SRNP-3573, 93-SRNP-3574, 93-SRNP-3681, 93-SRNP-3735, 93-SRNP-4176, 93-SRNP-6388, 93-SRNP-6748, 93-SRNP-7311, 95-SRNP-8417, 95-SRNP-8471, 97-SRNP-3898, 04-SRNP-46868, 04-SRNP-50139, 05-SRNP-4197, 06-SRNP-311, 09-SRNP-72610, 10-SRNP-67708, 11-SRNP-69640.
Description.
Female. Body color: head and mesosoma mostly dark, metasoma with some tergites and/or most of sternites pale. Antenna color: scape and/or pedicel pale, flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, pale, pale. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, pale. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna shorter than body (head to apex of metasoma), not extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened
dorso-ventrally
. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.3-2.4 mm or 2.5-2.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.5-2.6 mm or 2.7-2.8 mm.
Ocular-ocellar
line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.3-2.5. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3-2.5. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0-2.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal
spine-like
seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0
x
its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 9 or 10. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4-0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, but only partial or absent transverse carina. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.3-2.5. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less
parallel-sided
. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 4.0-4.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth.
Outer
margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a folded, transparent,
semi-desclerotized
area); with no pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0-5.0
x
posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.0-1.1. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.4-1.6. 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: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.
Male. Darker specimens, with narrower mediotergites 1 and 2.
Molecular data.
Sequences in BOLD: 15, barcode compliant sequences: 9.
Biology/ecology.
Gregarious (Fig. 245). Hosts:
Hesperiidae
,
Pyrgus adepta
,
Pyrgus oileus
.
Distribution.
Costa Rica, ACG.
Etymology.
We dedicate this species to Carolina Cano in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de
Parataxonomos
and
Estacion
Biologica
San Gerardo of ACG.