Pachamama, an uncommon and distinctive new genus of Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from tropical America
Author
Owen, Albert K.
Author
Pinto, John D.
text
Zootaxa
2004
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158494
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158494
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Pachamama
Owen and Pinto
, new genus
Type
species
.
Pachamama speciosa
Owen and Pinto
, herein designated.
Diagnosis.
The structure of the antenna and wings distinguishes this genus. Antenna without a funicle, club 3segmented; C3 elongate, much longer than C1 and C2 combined; scape sexually dimorphic, enormously inflated in male (
Fig. 4
), unmodified in female (
Figs. 5
,
7
). Forewing (
Fig. 2
) broad, with all veins confluent and sigmoid in arrangement, without a radial process; disk fumate except at apex, sparsely setose, RS1 absent; posterior margin with a distinct preretinacular lobe.
Hind
wing (
Fig. 3
) broad, subtriangular in shape, its anterior margin broadly Vshaped basal to hamuli. Male genitalia (
Fig. 6
) with aedeagus and genital capsule distinct, the latter bearing parameres and volsellae.
Etymology
.
Pachamama: Quechuan
for mother earth, and the Incan earth god.
Description.
Body (
Fig. 1
) compact, gibbose. Eyes red. Head broad, greatest width exceeding that of mesosoma; with a smooth plate on vertex; lateral ocelli adjacent to compound eyes; malar sulcus absent. Antenna sexually dimorphic; scape of male greatly enlarged, that of female unmodified; flagellum with two anelli and three club segments; C1 and C2 short, transverse; C3 elongate, subconical, much longer than C1 and C2 combined. Mandible (
Fig. 8
) with two acute and heavily sclerotized teeth posteriorly and a lanceolate, socketed, more lightly sclerotized tooth anteriorly, ental surface between anterior and posterior teeth subcrenate. Maxillary palp (
Fig. 9
) 1segmented. Labial palp short but distinct, with two relatively long setae at apex. Midlobe of mesoscutum and scutellum each with two pair of setae. Forewing broad, widest near apex; posterior margin lobed immediately basal to retinaculum; disk fumate except at apex, with relatively sparse setation; RS1 and basal vein tracks absent; patch of foliate obovate sensilla on ventral surface anterior to retinaculum; venation sigmoid, with SC, PM, MV, & SV all confluent; radial process absent; PM with two setae and a single campaniform sensillum at apex; PM curving precipitously up to wing margin and, with SC, delimiting a large costal cell; MV elongate; SV not constricted at base, relatively straight, diverging only slightly from margin of wing.
Hind
wing broad and subtriangular, with widest point at hamuli; anterior margin broadly Vshaped in basal half. Male genitalia as in Trichogrammatini (
Viggiani 1971
,
1984
); aedeagus separate from genital capsule; genital capsule presumably open dorsally; parameres and volsellae present, intervolsellar process absent.