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 panamana
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
new species
Figures 14
A–14E; 21D
Female
. Body length:
1.80 mm
(
holotype
).
Black; A1–A2 yellow; A3–A10 brown; mandible yellow with apex brown; fore and mid legs yellow; hind leg yellow, except tibial apex and tarsi brown; hind coxa brown; fore wing infuscate.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.1 times as wide as long; EH <IOS; interocellar area finely coriaceous making weakly transverse striae; OOL <LOL; antenna clava 3-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A4, A10 longer than wide; A5–A6, A8 as long as wide; A7–A9 wider than long; base of mandible smooth; frons above torulus with four transverse striae and coriaceous sculpture; interantennal process with reticulate striae, surpassing ventral border of torulus; clypeus exposed; clypeal margin truncate; gena smooth; anterior region of vertex with faint, transverse, slightly curved striae; lateral region of vertex between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina coriaceous, with 3–4 transverse striae reaching external margin of posterior ocellus; lateral region of vertex between hyperoccipital carina and occipital carina coriaceous but without striae; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina almost complete: 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.
Mesosoma slightly arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; lateral notaular area with coriaceous sculpture along its anterior margin; inter-notaular area coriaceous in its basal 1/3 and smooth in its posterior 2/3; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum subtriangular; mesopleural carina incomplete (length of mesopleural carina/length of mesopleuron = 0.26); fore wing slightly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1 shorter than wide; T2 longer than wide; T3–T6 wider than long; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and flattened; T3 densely covered by shallow punctuation; T4–T6 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 subtriangular.
Male
. Body length:
1.90 mm
(allotype);
1.80 mm
(
paratype
); mean length ± SD = 1.85 ±
0.07 mm
.
Similar to female except the following: hind leg yellow except tibial apex and tarsi dark brown; antenna filiform; A1–A3 yellow; A4–A10 brown; A3 as long as wide; A5–A9 longer than wide; T1 shorter than wide; T3 smooth along its posterior margin and T4–T6 covered by deeply and dense punctuation.
Etymology
. Named after the country of the
type
locality.
Diagnosis
. Both
Trichacis panamana
and
T. mexicana
have: T1 shorter than wide; clypeus exposed, and clypeal margin truncate. However,
T. panamana
has EH <IOS, OOL <LOL and distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina longer than posterior ocellus diameter.
Material examined.
Holotype
: 1 Ƥ,
PANAMA
, Veraguas,
8 km
W Santa Fe, Forest,
8º30´26´´N
81º06´49´´W
,
870 m
,
January 1–4 2001
, YPT, L. Masner (
CNCI
); allotype: 1 3, with the same data as
holotype
(
CNCI
);
paratype
: 1 3, with the same data as
holotype
(
ICN
).
Holotype
is deposited in
CNCI
.