Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species
Author
Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Author
Delsinne, Thibaut
text
Zootaxa
2012
3337
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56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281325
706d7536-7046-48ee-a586-a7bd417b58eb
1175-5326
281325
Trichacis procera
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
new species
Figures 15
C–15F
Female
. Body length:
2.40 mm
(
holotype
).
Black shining; A1–A5 yellow, A6–A10 brown; mandible brown with apex dark brown; leg yellow; fore wing infuscate.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.4 times as wide as long; EH <IOS; interocellar area smooth; OOL> LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A4, A7, A10 longer than wide; A5, A6, A8, A9 wider than long; base of mandible smooth; frons above interantennal process and torulus with three well-marked transverse striae; interantennal process smooth, curving down and surpassing ventral border of torulus; clypeus hidden by interantennal process; clypeal margin truncate; gena smooth; lateral region of vertex between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina weakly coriaceous; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina complete; distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina shorter than posterior ocellus diameter.
Mesosoma slightly arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; mesoscutum smooth; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum triangular and with a broad tuft of hairs; mesopleural carina complete; fore wing slightly surpassing apex of metasoma.
FIGURE 15.
Bright field images of
Trichacis
species. A, B:
Trichacis pecki
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). A, head and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view; B, head and mesosoma, dorsolateral view; C–F:
Trichacis procera
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
n. sp.
, Ƥ (holotype). C, head, anterior view; D, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; E, metasoma, dorsolateral view; F, head and mesosoma, lateral view.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1, T3–T4, T6 longer than wide; T2, T5 shorter than wide; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and concave; T3 smooth along its anterior margin and densely covered by shallow punctuation; T4–T6 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 subtriangular.
Male.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The name of the species refers to its long interantennal process.
Diagnosis.
Trichacis procera
and
T. dianae
have a complete mesopleural carina but
T. procera
has OOL> LOL; lateral region of its vertex is weakly coriaceous between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina.
Material examined.
Holotype
: 1 Ƥ,
MEXICO
, Monte Bello, Chiapas,
July 15–31 1969
, MT, W. Mason (
CNCI
).
Holotype
is deposited in
CNCI
.