Two new species of Clinocentrus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Argentina, with notes on South American species
Author
Martinez, Juan José
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Journal of Natural History
2009
2009-10-13
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903243988
journal article
10.1080/00222930903243988
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Clinocentrus seminiger
Szépligeti
Clinocentrus seminiger
Szépligeti, 1906: 608
(
type
female, not examined, presumed lost)
Comments
This species was described based on a single female specimen from Mapiri,
Bolivia
. The description is fairly short and does not mention many characters other than those usually constant in the genus. The colour pattern described for
C. seminiger
is similar to that described here for
C. mamull
and
C. roigi
with a mostly yellowish body and black markings on the lateral lobes of the mesoscutum; it could be distinguished from
C. mamull
by the darkened dorsal areas of the mesopleuron, and from
C. roigi
by its uniformly hyaline wings. In the original description, Szépligeti specifically stated that metasomal terga I and II are striate, but the sculpture on tergum III is not mentioned (
Szépligeti 1906
). It is possible that
C. seminiger
is a species with a smooth third metasomal tergum. Additionally, the description of
C. seminiger
mentions an unusually short antenna for the genus, with only 20 segments. Based on the variation of the number of antennal segments reported for previously described species of
Clinocentrus
, it is unlikely that
C. seminiger
is conspecific with any of the other Neotropical species of the genus.
Distribution
The original description only mentions “Mapiri,
Bolivia
” as the
type
locality. Two probable
type
localities named
Mapiri
are known in
Bolivia
, in the departments of
La Paz
and
Pando
.
Biology
Unknown.
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Sergey Belokobylskij (Museum and
Institute of Zoology
, Warsaw) for allowing me to study the
type
specimen described by Enderlein. Grateful thanks are also extended to Jenö Papp and Lázló Ronkay (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest) for their comments on the
type
specimens of
C. seminiger
Szépligeti. Diego Carpintero
kindly separated and sorted specimens from light-trap samples.
Collecting
permits were provided by
Administración de Parques Nacionales
,
Argentina
and
Dirección Provincial de Fauna
,
La Pampa
,
Argentina
.
Nicholas D’Avella
and
Daniela De Pasquale
provided helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript
.