Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species
Author
Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Author
Delsinne, Thibaut
text
Zootaxa
2012
3337
1
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281325
706d7536-7046-48ee-a586-a7bd417b58eb
1175-5326
281325
Trichacis punctata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
new species
Figures 16
F; 17A–17E
Female
. Body length:
2.30 mm
(
holotype
).
Black; mandible yellow with apex brown; A1 yellow; A2–A10 brown; fore and mid legs yellow; hind leg with tarsi and apices of femur and tibia brown, otherwise yellow; hind coxa dark brown; fore wing infuscate in posterior 2/3, with darker and lighter patterns in basal 1/3.
FIGURE 16.
Bright field images of
Trichacis
species. A–E:
Trichacis proximata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). A, head, anterior view; B, habitus, dorsal view; C, habitus, lateral view; D, head and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view; E, posterior mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view. F:
Trichacis punctata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ, head and anteroventral mesosoma, anterior view (holotype).
FIGURE 17.
Bright field images of
Trichacis
species. A–E:
Trichacis punctata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). A, habitus, dorsal view; B, habitus, lateral view; C, head, posterodorsal view; D, head, dorsal view; E, posterior head, mesosoma and anterior metasoma, dorsal view. F–H:
Trichacis sculpturata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). F, head and ventral mesosoma, anterior view; G, habitus, dorsal view; H, habitus lateral view.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.2 times as wide as long; EH <IOS; interocellar area smooth; OOL> LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A4, A6, A10 longer than wide; A5, A7–A9 as long as wide; base of mandible smooth; frons above torulus with transverse striae; interantennal process reaching, but not surpassing, ventral border of torulus; clypeus exposed; clypeal margin truncate; gena striate; vertex with scattered punctures laterally; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina absent; length between posterior ocellus and occipital carina line> OOL.
Mesosoma arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; lateral notaular area smooth; inter-notaular area with anterior 1/3 coriaceous; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum rectangular; mesopleural carina incomplete (length of mesopleural carina/length of mesopleuron = 0.50); fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1 shorter than wide; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and flattened; T2 longer than wide; T3–T5 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 densely covered by deep punctuation along its anterior border.
Male:
Unknown.
Etymology.
The name refers to the punctures present on vertex.
Diagnosis
.
Trichacis punctata
and
T. acarinata
are characterized by the absence of hyperoccipital carina.
T. punctata
can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: combined length of T3–T6 <T2; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Material examined.
Holotype
: 1 Ƥ,
BRAZIL
, S.
Bocaina, S. José Barre S.P.,
1650
m,
November 1968
, M. Alvarenga (CNCI).
Holotype
is deposited in CNCI.