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
1
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281325
706d7536-7046-48ee-a586-a7bd417b58eb
1175-5326
281325
Trichacis corrugata
Arias-Penna & Masner
,
new species
Figures 5
H; 6A–6D
Female
. Body length:
2.30 mm
(
holotype
);
2.45 mm
(
paratype
); mean length ± SD = 2.38 ±
0.11 mm
. Black; A1–A6 yellow; A7–A10 brown; apex and basis of mandible brown, otherwise yellow; fore and mid legs yellow; hind leg with trochanter, femur, and basal 2/3 of tibia yellow, otherwise brown; coxae yellow; fore wing infuscate.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.2 times as wide as long; EH <IOS; interocellar area coriaceous; OOL> LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A6, A10 longer than wide; A7 as long as wide; A8–A9 wider than long; base of mandible smooth; frons above interantennal process and torulus with five deeply marked transverse striae, which almost reach inner margin of eye; interantennal process striate and surpassing ventral border of torulus; clypeus exposed; clypeal margin convex medially; gena striate; vertex laterally coriaceous; medial area of vertex covered by transverse striae between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina, and smooth between hyperoccipital carina and occipital carina; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina incomplete: in dorsal view, hyperoccipital carina surpassing level of imaginary line connecting eye inner margin to posterior cephalic margin; distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina longer than posterior ocellus diameter.
Mesosoma arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; lateral notaular area with coriaceous sculpture along its anterior margin; inter-notaular area coriaceous; posteromedial region of internotaular area convex; parapsidal line present; area of the pronotum between epomiae with anterior region smooth and rest coriaceous; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped and elevated; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum broadly triangular and curving up; mesopleural carina incomplete (length of mesopleural carina/length of mesopleuron = 0.34); fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1 longer than wide; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and concave; T3 smooth along its anterior margin; T4–T6 densely covered by shallow punctuation; T6 subtriangular.
Male.
Unknown.
Etymology
. The name of the species refers to the striae on the vertex.
Diagnosis
.
T. corrugata
and
T. sculpturata
have inter-notaular area coriaceous. The shape of the specialized area of mesoscutellum and the sculpture on vertex allow to separate these species.
Material examined.
Holotype
: 1 Ƥ,
MEXICO
, Tamps, Río Frío, nr. Gomez Farias,
June 6 1983
, UV. S. Peck & M. Kaulbars (
CNCI
);
paratype
: 1 Ƥ,
EL SALVADOR
: Santa Ana, Guachipilin, Montecristo,
1200 m
,
14°27’N
89°22’W
,
August 2000
, R. Menjivar, MT (
CNCI
).
Holotype
is deposited in
CNCI
.