Dentalion (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae) a new genus from tropical America with eleven new species
Author
Hansson, Christer
text
Zootaxa
2011
2811
1
21
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.207919
9ac3fc1a-5928-4b60-94ee-3af7123e8635
1175-5326
207919
Dentalion apertum
sp. nov.
(
Figs 10–13
,
50, 52
,
58
)
Diagnosis.
Forewing speculum open (
Fig. 52
); forewing costal cell bare (
Fig. 52
); frontal suture reaching eyes at level equal with middle of anterior ocellus (
Fig. 13
); propodeum smooth (
Fig. 12
), callus with 5 setae.
Description.
FEMALE. Length
2.3 mm
. Scape yellowish-brown with dorsal and ventral edges dark brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Frons below frontal suture black with metallic blue and purple tinges, above frontal suture metallic bluish-purple. Vertex inside ocellar triangle metallic dark purple, outside ocellar triangle golden-green. Mesoscutum metallic dark purple. Scutellum with a triangular area in anterior 2/3 golden-green, otherwise metallic bluish-green. Propodeum metallic bluish-green. Coxae, femora and tibiae dark and metallic; tarsi with tarsomeres 1–3 white, 4 dark brown. Forewing hyaline. Gaster with tergites 1 and 2 metallic bluish-green, remaining tergites dark brown with golden-green tinges.
Antenna as in
Fig. 58
. Frons smooth below frontal suture close to scrobes and close to eyes (
Fig. 10
), but with raised, strong reticulation between the smooth areas and above frontal suture; frontal suture reaching eyes at level equal with middle of anterior ocellus. Vertex with raised, strong reticulation inside ocellar triangle, but smooth outside ocellar triangle (
Fig. 13
). Occipital margin rounded. Eyes with sparse, scattered hairs.
Pronotum without transverse carina close to posterior margin (
Fig. 11
). Mesoscutum with raised, strong reticulation (
Fig. 11
); notauli as narrow distinct grooves in anterior 1/3, not visible in posterior 2/3. Scutellum with raised, rather strong reticulation (
Fig. 11
) except posterior margin smooth; with 1 pair of setae. Propodeum smooth (
Fig. 12
); callus with 5 setae. Forewing speculum open below; costal cell bare.
Petiole 0.2X as long as wide, smooth. Gaster elongate with apex acuminate; tergites smooth.
MALE. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
female (
BMNH
) labelled “
COSTA RICA
, Puntarenas, San Vito, Las Cruces, 08˚47'N 82˚58'W,
1000–1300 m
,
7–19.ii.2007
, C. Hansson”.
Etymology.
Named for the open speculum in the forewing, from the Latin
apertus
= open.
Distribution.
Costa Rica
.