A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Neotropics with the description of four new species Author Kittel, Rebecca N. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-09-27 4486 2 146 160 journal article 29548 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.4 4f9269d2-8566-473d-b29c-f01db41b5e34 1175-5326 1436697 AB64D470-D117-45C4-9FCD-ACF4A9CBD1C9 Furcidentia llama sp. nov. ( Figs 2 a–c , 9 ) Holotype . GUATEMALA : 1 ♀ , “ Guatemala , Peten Parq Nac Tikal, 17.24030—89.62202 +/- 50m , 270 m , 22/05/ 2009 , LLAMA Wa B- 05-2-02 ” ( USNM ). Diagnosis. Furcidentia llama differs from the other members of the genus by not having clypeal teeth, being smaller than 3.0 mm, having a length of eye to length of temple ratio less than 2.0, and the face, frons, and vertex rugose. Description (female) . Body measurements. Length of body 2.8 mm ; ratio of length of antenna to body 1.2; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.9; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.1. FIGURE 2. Furcidentia llama sp. nov. , holotype, female, a—head frontal; b—habitus lateral; c—habitus dorsal; scale bars a = 0.5 mm, b, c = 1.0 mm. Head. Antenna with 30 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.3; ratio of length of third, fourth, and penultimate antennomere to their width 3.3, 3.0, and 1.7, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 1.6; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 1.5; clypeus convex and fine rugose; without clypeal teeth; ratio of malar space to base of mandible 1.3; face straight in lateral view and rugose; frons and vertex rugose; ratio of length of eye to temple in dorsal view 1.9; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:1.3:1.0:3.8. Mesosoma. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli present, scrobiculate; anterior mesopleuron rugose, posterior mesopleuron strigose; scutellar sulcus present, scrobiculate; mesoscutellum flat, rugose; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles absent; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.7; ratio of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.1; ratio of length to width of hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia, and hind tarsus 1.8, 4.8, 4.4, and 13.4, respectively; ratio of posterior spur to hind basitarsus 0.2; fore wing: SR-1 straight; 2-R1 present, ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of 2- R1 9.0; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.1; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 4.0; ratio of r:3- SR:SR-1 1.0:0.5:4.5; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:0.8:2.0. Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.6; tergites costate; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.0:1.2. Colour. Head orange; black interocellar area; base of antenna beige, gradually darker towards the tip; pronotum orange; middle area of mesoscutum orange; mesopleuron, lateral lobes of mesoscutum, and propodeum brown; wings infuscate beneath pterostigma and anterior half of wing; wing venation, parastigma, and pterostigma brown; coxae white; anterior femora and tibiae brown; tarsi beige; first metasomal tergite white; second tergite anteriorly white (shape of half a circle), otherwise brown; third tergite dark brown. Male. Unknown. Distribution. This species is only known from the type locality, Parque Nacional Tikal in Petén , Guatemala . Etymology. The species has been named after the LLAMA project (Leaf Litter Arthropods of Middle America). Biology . Unknown. Sequence data . GenBank accession number for this species is Ef1α KJ472611 .