Monitoriella Hedqvist (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazil, with descriptions of three new species
Author
Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio
Author
Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria
Author
Nunes, Juliano Fiorelini
text
Zootaxa
2011
2921
28
38
journal article
46634
10.5281/zenodo.277925
4eff0650-13c8-4c35-bb22-1270005ec9c7
1175-5326
277925
Monitoriella elongata
Hedqvist, 1963
Material examined.
Ƥ (
DCBU
): P. E. Serra do Mar, Núcleo Picinguaba, at
Ubatuba
municipality, in São Paulo State,
Brazil
,
21.I.2002
. Sweeping.
New record
.
Comments.
Previously know only from
Mexico
,
Costa Rica
, and
Guatemala
. The location of the
holotype
and two
paratypes
, intercepted at a port in Texas,
USA
, is unknown (
Hedqvist 1963
;
Infante
et al.
1995
). This is the only known species of the genera with a complete occipital carina. Other diagnostic characters are the presence of a deep and wide midventral groove on mesothorax, a very long ovipositor, about twice as long as body length, and the extensive dark brown body color.