A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Neotropics with the description of four new species Author Kittel, Rebecca N. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-09-27 4486 2 146 160 journal article 29548 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.4 4f9269d2-8566-473d-b29c-f01db41b5e34 1175-5326 1436697 AB64D470-D117-45C4-9FCD-ACF4A9CBD1C9 Genus Furcidentia ( Figs 1–3 , 9 ) Pseudophanerotoma ( Furcidentia ) Zettel, 1990 : 174 . Type species: Pseudophanerotoma ( Furcidentia ) clypeata Zettel, 1990 by original designation (CNC), [examined]. Furcidentia Zettel : stat. rev. Kittel et al . 2016 : 231. Pseudophanerotoma ( Furcidentia ) Shaw, 1997 ; Yu et al. , 2012 . Diagnosis. Eyes round and glabrous; ocelli as an equilateral triangle; hypostomal carina reaching occipital carina; teeth on clypeus absent or two teeth present; malar suture absent; occipital carina complete; antenna with more than 25 antennomeres; notauli present, short; scutellar sulcus present; blister on mid tibia present; fore wing with 1- SR+M present, emanating from parastigma; 2-R1 present; R extending to apex of wing; 1-cu1 postfurcal, 2-SR+M antefurcal, with three radial abscissae present; 3-SR postfurcal; subdiscal cell closed (cu1b present); cua postfurcal; lateral propodeal tubercles absent; metasomal carapace with transverse sutures; with lobes on posterior end of carapace. As is the case for the type species of the genus F. clypeata , none of the species described here possess clypeal teeth. Although the presence or absence of clypeal teeth has been used to distinguish chelonine genera ( Zettel, 1990 ), there are a growing number of instances to indicate that this is a character of species-level importance only, e.g. species of Ascogaster , Phanerotomella , and Wushenia ( Huddleston, 1984 ; Kittel & Austin, 2013 ; Kittel et al. , 2015 ). This also appears to be the case for Furcidentia , in that F. pulchra and F. sharkeyi possess two clypeal teeth, but otherwise can be easily accommodated within this genus. Distribution. Previously known from Costa Rica and Ecuador . The new species described below extend the distribution of the genus to the north ( Guatemala ) and east ( French Guiana ) within the Neotropics. Biology . The hosts of Furcidentia are unknown. Remark. Zettel (1990) described three species of Furcidentia , all of which were based only on males. The three new species described here are all based on females, none of which are likely to be conspecific with Zettel’s (1990) species given differences in their sculpturing and colour patterns (see the identification key and diagnosis of species).