Revision of the genus Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica
Author
Fernandez-Triana, Jose
Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K 1 A 0 C 6 Canada
Author
Boudreault, Caroline
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4511-2626
Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K 1 A 0 C 6 Canada
Author
Dapkey, Tanya
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - 6018 USA
Author
Smith, M. Alex
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8650-2575
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N 1 G 2 W 1 Canada
Author
Rodriguez, J.
Dept. of Natural Sciences, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, VA 24293 USA
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - 6018 USA
Author
Janzen, Daniel H.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7335-5107
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - 6018 USA
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research
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Promicrogaster pablouzagai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
sp. n.
Figs 129-134
Holotype.
Female, CNC. COSTA RICA, Alajuela, Area de
Conservacion
Guanacaste, Sector San Cristobal, Bosque Trampa Malaise, 815m,
10.86280
,
-85.38460
. DNA Voucher code: DHJPAR0025926.
Paratypes.
6♂ (CNC, NMNH), same locality as holotype; 1♂ (CNC), from Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Cacao, Cerro Pedregal, 1080m,
10.92767
,
-85.47449
. DNA Voucher codes: DHJPAR0025962, DHJPAR0025964, DHJPAR0025993, DHJPAR0026085, DHJPAR0026089, DHJPAR0027659, DHJPAR0031406.
Description.
Head: orange-yellow. Flagellomeres: flagellomeres 1-2 light brown, flagellomeres 3-11 orange-yellow, flagellomeres 12-16 dark brown. Mesosoma: mostly black, with anteromesoscutum, scutellar disc and part of the axillar complex orange-brown.
Tegula
: yellow. Metasoma (dorsally): dark brown to black. Metacoxa: orange dorsally, brown ventrally. Malar distance: 0.2-0.3
x
eye length. Fore wing areolet: present. T1 sculpture: smooth. T2 sculpture: smooth. Ocular-ocellar line: 0.11 mm. Interocellar dis
tance
: 0.10-0.11 mm. Posterior ocellus diameter: 0.06-0.07 mm. Body length: 2.65 mm. Fore wing length: 2.99 mm. Ovipositor length: 1.28 mm. Metacoxa length: 0.77 mm. Metafemur length: 0.90 mm. Metatibia length: 1.06 mm. T1 length/width at posterior margin: 0.48 mm/ 0.21 mm. T2 length/width at posterior margin: 0.11 mm/ 0.40 mm.
Distribution.
Costa Rica (ACG, mid-elevation rain forest and cloud forest).
Etymology.
Promicrogaster pablouzagai
is named in honor of 14-year-old Juan Pablo Uzaga
Lopez
from the Colonia
Bolanos
school for his growing enthusiasm for understanding and protecting the wild nature that occurs in his homeland.
Comments.
Based in body color, propodeum sculpture, and shape of areolet in fore wing, this is the most distinctive
Promicrogaster
among all species studied.