Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae)
Author
Burks, Roger A.
Author
Heraty, John M.
Author
Dominguez, Chrysalyn
Author
Mottern, Jason L.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-26
4401
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1
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journal article
30421
10.11646/zootaxa.4401.1.1
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1175-5326
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Orasema mati
Burks, Heraty & Dominguez
n. sp.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:63
BEC
4A7-DB28-4009-B829-13BE0D425CF3 (
Figs 131–138
)
Diagnosis.
Head with wrinkle-like sculpture dorsally, but becoming smooth ventrally. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum, including axillula, areolate. Mesoscutal sidelobes strongly protruding.
No other species in this group has a similar face (
Fig. 132
). This species is also distinctive in having strongly protruding mesoscutal sidelobes (
Fig. 134
), but this is an apparently variable feature in some other species.
FIGURES 131–136.
Orasema mati
. Holotype ♀:
131.
Habitus.
132.
Head.
133.
Antenna, with F2 and F6–F7 inset.
134.
Mesosoma, dorsal view.
135.
Axillula.
136.
Stigma and postmarginal vein.
FIGURES 137–138.
Orasema mati
. Holotype ♀:
137.
Propodeum.
138.
Petiole, hind coxa.
Description. Female.
Length
3.1 mm
.
Color:
Head and mesosoma blue to green, with yellow luster. Pedicel pale brown; anellus pale brown; flagellum brown. Coxae brown; fore femur mostly brown, tips pale; mid and hind femora yellow. Fore wing hyaline; venation brown. Petiole blue to purple; gaster brown with purple luster.
Head:
Head width:head height 1.2; face reticulate with wrinkle-like sculpture dorsally, becoming smooth ventrally; longitudinal groove between eye and torulus present; eyes bare, inter-ocular distance:eye height 1.8; malar space:eye height 0.9; supraclypeal area longer than broad, mostly smooth but with weak sculpture laterally; clypeus smooth to weakly sculptured. Flagellum length:head height 1.9; F2 2.9× as long as broad, 1.0× as long as F3; following funiculars progressively shorter and broader.
Mesosoma:
Mesosoma length:height 1.4. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate-reticulate, with minute setae; lateral lobe areolate-reticulate. Axilla areolate-reticulate; mesoscutellar disc areolate; frenal line irregularly foveate; frenum areolate; axillular groove anteriorly narrow, broad and foveate posteriorly; axillula areolate. Propodeum with irregular median carina; propodeal disc areolate to areolate-reticulate; callus areolate-reticulate, with 3–5 setae. Mesepisternum reticulate to areolate-reticulate laterally, smooth ventrally, broadly rounded anterior to mid coxa. Upper mesepimeron smooth; lower mesepimeron areolate-reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum smooth dorsally, areolate-reticulate ventrally. Hind coxa 2.1× as long as broad; hind femur 6.7× as long as broad. Fore wing 1.9× as long as broad, 2.0× as long as mesothorax; stigma with 4 sensilla forming an Lshape. Hind wing costal cell with a broad bare area.
Metasoma:
Petiole 5.2× as long as broad, 1.8× as long as hind coxa, areolate, anterior carina moderate. Antecostal sulcus crossed by carinae; acrosternite posteriorly angulate.
Male
. unknown.
Distribution.
Guatemala
.
Material examined.
Holotype
:
GUATEMALA
:
Sierra Caral,
19 km
. S.E. Morales,
1180m
,
15°21'52"N
,
88°41'28"W
[
1 ♀
,
UCRCENT
00479120], deposited in
UCRC
.
Etymology.
After the Quechua word mat’i, meaning “forehead,” referring to the relatively smooth face.