Two new species of Nealiolus Mason (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) reared from pest weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Author
Shimbori, Eduardo M.
Author
Wengrat, Ana P. G. S.
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Savaris, Marcoandre
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Galvão, William B.
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Nanini, Frederico
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Garcia, Sarah S. P.
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Corrêa, Alberto S.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-28
4729
1
116
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journal article
24229
10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.8
6e58b963-16c5-4143-bc52-b5e911af4f87
1175-5326
3629072
53D586E2-9516-47E8-B033-A7D207CFEFF3
Key to species of
Nealiolus
Mason
1. Ovipositor sheaths shorter than carapace (=metasoma)........................................
N. crassipes
(Martin)
-
Ovipositor sheaths at least 1.5 × longer than carapace......................................................... 2
2(1). Metasomal carapace strongly rugose-striate; large specimens with 4.5‒6.0 mm; antenna with 34 (males) or 35 antennomeres or more (females) (
mexicanus
group)........................................................................ 3
- Metasoma less strongly sculptured, at least T3 partly smooth and polished; smaller specimens, usually less than 4.0 mm; antenna with less than 33 antennomeres (
curculionis
group)..................................................... 5
3(2). Face with short median carina extending upward from fronto-clypeal sulcus; ovipositor 1.5 × longer than carapace............................................................................................
N. acutulus
(Martin)
- Face without such median carina, but with a short media carina between toruli; ovipositor about 2.0 × longer than carapace.. ................................................................................................... 4
4(3).
Mesosoma
black; propodeum without defined areola (“scabrous”)............................
N. mexicanus
(Cresson)
-
Mesosoma
at least partly brownish yellow (pro and mesonotum always); propodeum mostly smooth with well-defined pentagonal areola. Parasitoids of
Conotrachelus
sp..................................................
N. jaboticaba
sp. n.
5(3). Tegula black, relatively large and distinctly projecting laterally................................................. 6
- Tegula pale, and normally developed...................................................................... 7
6(5). Fore wing vein r (first abcissa of radius) about 0.55‒0.60 × vein (RS+M)b (second abcissa of cubitus); antenna with 29 anten- nomeres; T2 medially and T3 nearly entirely smooth and polished. Parasitoids of
Phymatophosus squameus
...................................................................................................
N. chayohtli
sp. n.
-
Fore wing vein
r equal
to vein (RS+M)b; antenna with 27 antennomeres; all three carapace terga finely striate, although weaker sculpturing in T3....................................................................
N. auriculatus
(Martin)
7(5). T3 entirely smooth and polished; entirely reddish-yellow........................................
N. collaris
(Brues)
-
T3 at least partly sculptured with striation; at least metasoma dark brown or black.................................. 8
8(7). Head and
mesosoma
reddish-yellow, all femora dark brown to black and hind tibia mostly black with whitish basal annulus; ovipositor sheaths 2.5 × longer than carapace...................................................
N. rufus
(Riley)
-
Head and
mesosoma
dark brown, all femora entirely yellowish-brown (except apically on hind femur occasionally darker) and hind tibia without basal whitish annulus; ovipositor sheaths about 2.0 × longer than carapace........
N. curculionis
(Fitch)