Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species
Author
Lindsay, Cheryl
Author
Sharkey, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2006
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174171
9c25c690-863c-4030-b63f-1ceb1f8dd782
1175-5326
174171
Amputoearinus sharanowskiae
Lindsay and Sharkey
sp.n.
(
Figs. 4
b, 4f, 7b)
Diagnosis:
This species can be distinguished from all other species of
Amputoearinus
by the following characters; forewing yellow with infuscate band apically; median areola of mesosoma not depressed medially and lacking sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly; projection of propleuron blunt.
Description:
Holotype
Ψ
Body length:
6.0mm.
Color:
body yellow except melanic as follows: head, antenna, propleuron, fore, mid, hind femur, midtibia distally, midtarsus, hind coxa, trochanter, hind tibia basally and distally, hind tarsus, posterior three terga; apex of forewing infuscate (
Fig. 4
f).
Head:
antenna with unknown number of flagellomeres, antennae broken off at scape, one antenna placed on point and broken after 27th flagellomere.
Mesosoma:
scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carina (cf.
Fig. 6
d); projection of propleuron blunt (cf.
Fig. 6
f); median areola of mesosoma not depressed medially and lacking sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (cf.
Fig. 7
d); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (cf.
Fig. 5
f); mesopleural suture with weak carinae; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth lacking transverse carinae (
Fig. 7
b); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf.
Fig. 6a
); length of midtibial spur
0.5mm
, length of midbasitarsomere
0.6mm
; midtibia with 3–4 pegs at midlength, lacking pegs apically; hind tibia with 5–7 pegs apically; forewing length
6.1mm
.
Metasoma:
median syntergite 2+3, length
1.3mm
, width
1.2mm
.
Male:
Unknown
Etymology:
In honor of Barb Sharanowski.
Specimen Examined:
HOLOTYPE
. Ψ,
COLOMBIA
, Meta, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Macarena Borde Rio, quejar,
3º20’N
73º53’W
,
460m
, Malaise,
24–28.xii.2001
, D. Campos, leg. M.2609, (head and antennae detached and placed on triangular point), (IAvH).