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 Pseudophanerotoma thapsina (Walley) ( Figs 6 a–c , 7 a–c , 10 ) Type species: Phanerotoma thapsina Walley 1951 : 305 . Assigned to Pseudophanerotoma by Zettel, 1990 : 166. Holotype . USA : 1 ♀ , " Port Isabel , Cameron Co. , Texas , June 20-23, 1948 " at light leg. H. E. Evans and G. E. Ball ( CNC #5949 ), [examined]. FRENCH GUIANA . Other material. 1 ♂ , “ French Guiana , Mt. Chevoux, 4.722627, -52.41261, Rec: SEAG , MT, 1-7 viii 2001 ” ( MNHN ), [examined]. Diagnosis. The species differs from all other species of the genus by being completely yellow, its small size of less than 4 mm , and the costate and rugose sculpturing of the carapace. Description (male) . Body measurements. Length of body 3.7 mm ; ratio of length of antenna to body 0.7; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.6; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.2. FIGURE 7. Pseudophanerotoma thapsina , holotype, female, a—habitus lateral; b—head frontal; c—metasoma dorsal. Head. Antenna with 29 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.1; ratio of length of third, fourth, and penultimate antennomere to width 4.3, 3.8, and 1.7, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 1.7; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 2.1; clypeus convex and smooth, with two teeth (less prominent in male); ratio of malar space to base of mandible 1.0; face straight in lateral view and punctate; frons and vertex punctate; ratio of length of eye to temple in dorsal view 2.3; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:0.8:1.0:3.0. Mesosoma. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli present; mesopleuron rugose; scutellar sulcus present and rugose; mesoscutellum flat and rugose; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles absent; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.68; ratio of length to width of hind coxa, hind femur, and hind tibia 2.0, 4.3, and 5.0, respectively; fore wing: SR-1 straight; 2-R1 absent; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.3; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 2.5; ratio of r:3-SR:SR-1 1.0:0.9:5.0; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:1.1:2.8. Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.5; first and second tergite costate, third tergite rugose; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:0.9:1.2. Colour. Yellow, except interocellar area black. Distribution. This species was hitherto only known from Texas , USA , but has now been recorded in French Guiana (Mt. Chevoux). Biology . Unknown. Sequence data . GenBank accession numbers for this species are CO1 KJ472582 , 28S KJ472714 . Remarks . This is the first description of the male of the species.