Fourteen new species of Heterospilus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazil
Author
Chiletto, Bo.
Author
Penteado-Dias, Am.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4144
3
316
334
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.2
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1175-5326
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Heterospilus homalos
sp. n.
(
Figs 27–30
)
Female: Body length:
1.7 mm
.
Colour Female:
head dark brown to black, palpi yellow, flagellum dark brown with white annulus at the apex, scape yellow; mesosoma dark brown to black; metasoma brown in all terga, except tergum II pale yellow; wing veins light brown, stigma dark brown; legs with coxae pale yellow, femur brown and pale yellow at the base (mid and hind legs darker then fore leg).
Head
: vertex, frons and face smooth; malar space equal to ¼ eye height; temple narrow, width shorter than ½ eye width; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times greater than diameter of lateral ocellus.
Mesosoma:
mesopleuron
smooth, precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than width of
mesopleuron
; lobes of mesoscutum smooth and hairy just along notauli; notauli weakly scrobiculate at the beginning and smooth posteriorly, meeting prescutellar furrow in triangular not sculptured area; prescutellar furrow with one cross carina; scutellum smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinct and margined, basal median areas smooth, basal median carina present and long, areolar margin distinct, areolar area smooth-rugose, lateral areas entirely smooth, mesosternum smooth.
Fore wing
: vein r shorter than vein 3
RSa
, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M, stigma wider than length of vein r.
Hind wing:
vein SC+R absent, length of vein M+CU shorter than vein
1M.
Metasoma:
first tergum smooth, apical width shorter than length; second tergum smooth, apical width three times length; third tergum smooth; terga II+III with anterior and posterior transverse grooves absent; terga IV–VII smooth; ovipositor equal to 3/4 length of metasoma.
Material
examined.
Holotype
(
DCBU
31295
); female,
Brazil
, SP,
São Luiz do Paraitinga
,
Núcleo Santa Virgínia
23o19’27,1’’S
45o5’38,4’’W
, semidecidous mesophilic forest,
22.I.2010
,
Malaise trap
;
N.W. Perioto
col.
Comments.
This species is distinguished by the absence of vein SC+R, the colour of the legs and the absence of sculpture in the body, characterizing the condition “smooth”.
Etymology.
"
homalos
" is a Greek term that the idea of plan or smooth.