A revision of the genus Protomicroplitis Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with the description of a new species Author Fernandez-Triana, J. L. text Zootaxa 2015 4039 4 529 542 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.3 f5aafc97-970a-4ac0-9a67-006b9c72f4f3 1175-5326 244946 5268A8C6-1214-46F5-97B4-716E96D71F7C Protomicroplitis centroamericanus Fernandez-Triana sp. nov. Figs 11–17 Holotype . ♀ ( CNC ). MEXICO , Chiapas, 16°58’ N , - 91°47’ W . Holotype labels. 1. MEXICO , Chiapas, 16°58’ N , - 91°47’ W ; 25–30.ix.1978 ; J. Rawlins. 2. DNA Voucher CNCHYM 0 3266. Paratypes ( CNC ). COSTA RICA : Turrialba, 9.9, -83.68 (1 ♀). MEXICO : Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, 19.58, -88.04 (11 ♀, 14 ♂ ); Chiapas, 16.58, -91.47 ( 1 ♂ ); Vallarta, 17 km W of Puerto Morelos, 20.86, -87.04 ( 1 ♂ ); Tuxtlas Research Station, 33 km NW of Catemaco, Veracruz, 18.53, -95.16 ( 1 ♂ ); El Salto, San Luis Potosí, 22.36, -99.26 (1 ♀). Description. Female: Body length: 4.4–5.2 mm (average: 4.8 ± 0.26). Fore wing length: 4.1–4.7 mm (average: 4.4 ± 0.16). F2 length: 0.50 mm ( 0.49-0.51 mm ). F14 length: 0.28 mm . Metatibia length: 1.79 mm ( 1.75–1.85 mm ). Metatarsus length: 0.98 mm ( 0.97–0.99 mm ). T1 length: 0.81 mm ( 0.78–0.85 mm ). F2 length/width: 3.6 × (3.5–3.7 ×). F14 length/width: 3.1 × (2.8–3.5 ×). F2 length/F14 length: 1.79 × (1.75–1.82 ×). T1 length/width at posterior margin: 4.10 × (3.90–4.33 ×). T1 length/width at median length of tergite: 6.53 × (6.24–7.08 ×). T1 width at median length of tergite/width at anterior margin: 0.63 × (0.57–0.69 ×). Head black (except for yelloworange clypeus, labrum, mandibles and spot centrally on face). Antenna with scape and pedicel orange-yellow, flagellomeres brown. Female mesosoma entirely orange-yellow, male with propleuron, mesopleuron, metascutellum and propodeum partially to entirely reddish-brown to black. Mesosoma entirely orange-yellow in female (male with propleuron, mesopleuron, metascutellum and propodeum partially to entirely reddish-brown to black). Metasoma yellow to yellow-orange. Wings mostly to entirely hyaline; pterostigma with anterior 0.5 yellow in female and male specimens, pterostigma anteriorly yellow and posteriorly brown. Legs mostly yellow-orange, except for dark brown to black metatarsus (entirely) and metatibia (on posterior 0.2 ×, rarely up to 0.4 ×). Molecular data (DNA barcodes). Six sequences in BOLD, one of them over 500 bp. Etymology. After Central America , the region where the species has been found. Comments. This species is distributed in Central America ( Costa Rica and Mexico ). Males have darker coloration in the mesosoma than females (see Description above).