Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species
Author
Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Author
Delsinne, Thibaut
text
Zootaxa
2012
3337
1
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281325
706d7536-7046-48ee-a586-a7bd417b58eb
1175-5326
281325
Trichacis colombiana
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
new species
Figures 4
F, 5A–5C
Female
. Body length:
1.95 mm
(
holotype
).
Black; antenna base of A1 yellow, distal part of A1 brown and A2–A10 dark brown; apex and base of mandible brown, rest yellow; fore leg yellow; mid leg with trochanter, femur and apical 2/3 of tibia brown, otherwise yellow; hind leg dark brown; fore coxa brown; mid and hind coxae dark brown; fore wing infuscate.
Head, in dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long; EH <IOS; interocellar area finely coriaceous; OOL> LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A6, A10 longer than wide; A7–A8 wider than long; A9 as long as wide; base of mandible smooth; frons above torulus with 3 transverse striae and coriaceous sculpture; interantennal process smooth and reaching, but no surpassing, ventral border of torulus; clypeus exposed; clypeal margin truncate; gena striate; vertex laterally coriaceous and medially smooth; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina incomplete: in dorsal view, hyperoccipital carina surpassing level of imaginary line connecting eye inner margin to posterior cephalic margin; distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina longer than posterior ocellus diameter.
FIGURE 4.
Bright field images of
Trichacis
species. A–E:
Trichacis clypeata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
A, Ƥ, habitus, lateral view (holotype); B, Ƥ, head and anterior mesosoma, lateral view (holotype); C, Ƥ, head and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view (holotype); D, 3, head, anterior view (allotype); E, 3, posterior mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view (allotype). F:
Trichacis colombiana
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype), head and ventral mesosoma, anterior view.
Mesosoma arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus absent; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex, with anterior region coriaceous and rest smooth; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum triangular; mesopleural carina incomplete; fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma moderately elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1 as long as wide; T2 longer than wide; anteromedial region of T2 smooth and flattened; T3 smooth along its anterior margin and rest densely covered by shallow punctuation; T4–T6 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 triangular.
FIGURE 5.
Bright field images of
Trichacis
species. A–C:
Trichacis colombiana
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). A, habitus, dorsal view; B, habitus, lateral view; C, head and anterior mesosoma, anterodorsal view. D–G:
Trichacis concavata
Arias- Penna & Masner, n. sp., Ƥ (holotype). D, head and ventral mesosoma, anterior view; E, habitus, dorsal view; F, habitus, lateral view; G, head and mesosoma, dorsal view. H:
Trichacis corrugata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype), head, anterior view.
Male.
Unknown.
Etymology
. Named after the country of the
type
locality.
Diagnosis.
Trichacis colombiana
and
T. kaulbarsi
have notaulus absent, but contrary to
T. kaulbarsi
,
T. colombiana
has area between anterior and posterior ocelli finely coriaceous and incomplete hyperoccipital carina.
Material examined.
Holotype
: 1 Ƥ,
COLOMBIA
, Magdalena, PNN Santa
Marta
, El Ramo,
2500 m
,
10°4´N
73°35´W
,
July 15–31 2000
, MT, J. Cantillo (
CNCI
).
Holotype
is deposited in
CNCI
.