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
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1175-5326
174171
Amputoearinus boringi
Lindsay and Sharkey
sp.n.
(
Fig.2
b, 6c)
Diagnosis:
This species can be distinguished from all other species of
Amputoearinus
by the following characters; longitudinal carina of scutellar sulcus present; median areola of mesosoma depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly; projection of propleuron blunt; carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum.
Description:
Holotype
Ψ
Body length:
7.3mm
.
Color:
body orange except for melanic as follows: antenna, hind tarsus, mid and hind tibia with melanic patch distally; forewing with infuscate band apically (cf.
Fig. 4
f).
Head:
antenna with 43 flagellomeres.
Mesosoma:
scutellar sulcus with weak longitudinal carina (
Fig. 6
c); projection of propleuron blunt (cf.
Fig
6
f.); median areola of mesosoma slightly depressed medially, with carinae laterally and posteriorly and transverse carina anteriorly, interior of areola rugulose (cf.
Fig. 7
c); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (cf.
Fig. 5
f); mesopleural suture with weak and reduced carinae along its length; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae (cf.
Fig. 7
b); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf.
Fig. 6a
); length of midtibial spur
0.6mm
; length of midbasitarsomere
0.7mm
; midtibia with 3 pegs at midlength; 0–1 peg(s) apically; hind tibia with 3–4 pegs apically; forewing length
7.1mm
.
Metasoma:
median syntergite 2+3 length
1.6mm
, width
1.5mm
.
Male:
Unknown
Etymology:
in honor of Andy Boring.
Specimen examined
:
HOLOTYPE
. Ψ,
COLOMBIA
, [Valle del] Cauca, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Gorgona, El Saman,
2º58’N
78º11’W
,
5m
, Malaise,
7–20.ii.2001
, H. Torres, Leg. M. 1364, (right hind leg broken off after hind tibia), (IAvH).