Review of Apantelessensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica
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Fernandez-Triana, Jose L.
Author
Whitfield, James B.
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Rodriguez, Josephine J.
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Smith, M. Alex
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Janzen, Daniel H.
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Hallwachs, Winnie D.
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Hajibabaei, Mehrdad
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Burns, John M.
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Solis, M. Alma
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Brown, John
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Cardinal, Sophie
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Goulet, Henri
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Hebert, Paul D. N.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418
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Apanteles deifiliadavilae
Fernandez-Triana
sp. n.
Fig. 39, 235
Apanteles
Rodriguez171 (
Smith et al. 2006
). Interim name provided by the authors.
Type locality.
COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest,
Estacion
Llanura, 135m, 10.93332, -85.25331.
Holotype
.
♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0035483. 2. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de
Conservacion
Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 09-SRNP-44142.
Description.
Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, mostly pale but posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: dark. Fore wing veins color: mostly dark (a few veins may be unpigmented). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened
dorso-ventrally
. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.5-3.6 mm. Fore wing length: 3.3-3.4 mm.
Ocular-ocellar
line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3-2.5. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.3-2.5. Tarsal claws: with single basal
spine-like
seta. Metafemur length/width: 2.8-2.9. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0
x
its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 11 or 12. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4-0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, but only partial or absent transverse carina. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.6-2.8. Mediotergite 1 shape: mostly
parallel-sided
for 0.5-0.7 of its length, then narrowing posteriorly so mediotergite anterior width>1.1
x
posterior width. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 1.6-1.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent,
semi-desclerotized
area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: about same width throughout its length. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.6-1.7. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.7-1.9. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.4-1.6. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.5-0.6. Pterostigma length/width: 2.6-3.0. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: clearly beyond half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.
Male. Unknown.
Molecular data.
Sequences in BOLD: 12, barcode compliant sequences:12.
Biology/ecology.
Solitary (Fig. 235). Hosts:
Elachistidae
,
Antaeotricha marmorea
,
Antaeotricha radicalis
,
Antaeotricha
spp.,
Chlamydastis
Janzen10,
Stenoma
spp., feeding on
Melastomataceae
.
Distribution
.
Costa Rica, ACG.
Etymology.
We dedicate this species to Deifilia
Davila
in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de
Asesoria
Legal.