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<mods:namePart>Claridge, Brandon</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/C665E98C-D2E7-4EDB-A6AF-181C26B1DB50" authority="Claridge, 2021" authorityName="Claridge" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus mexicanus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus" status="sp. nov.">Heterischnus mexicanus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="0" pageNumber="57">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Heterischnus mexicanus sp. nov., holotype female A habitus B mesosoma, lateral view C head, frontal view D head, dorsal view E propodeum, dorsolateral view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (A); 1.0 mm (B-E)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.85.67792.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/583745" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figs 10</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Heterischnus mexicanus sp. nov., paratype male (Mexico: Saltillo) A habitus B head, frontal view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (A); 1.0 mm (B)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.85.67792.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/583746" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 11</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. Distribution of Heterischnus mexicanus sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.85.67792.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/583747" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 12</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="57" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Claridge" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus mexicanus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. can be distinguished from all congeners by a combination of the following: 1) flagellomeres 7/8-11/12 dorsally white in female; 2) propodeum densely and coarsely punctate; and 3) longitudinal carinae of propodeum reduced or obsolete with at least lateral longitudinal carina posteriorly obsolete.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="57" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Female</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Heterischnus mexicanus sp. nov., holotype female A habitus B mesosoma, lateral view C head, frontal view D head, dorsal view E propodeum, dorsolateral view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (A); 1.0 mm (B-E)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.85.67792.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/583745" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">10</figureCitation>
). Body length: 7.7-8.4mm; fore wing length: 4.4-4.5 mm.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 10.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Claridge" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus mexicanus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype female
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
habitus
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">B</emphasis>
mesosoma, lateral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">C</emphasis>
head, frontal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">D</emphasis>
head, dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">E</emphasis>
propodeum, dorsolateral view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
); 1.0 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">B-E</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Color.</emphasis>
Head black, except following areas white: mandible except for brown apex, venterolateral corners of clypeus, and small ovoid adjacent to eye in supra-antennal area; clypeus varying from black to brownish-red; supraclypeal area brown in one specimen; flagellum brown, flagellomeres 7/8-11/12 with ventral surfaces white. Mesosoma overall brownish-red; anterior margin of pronotal collar, dorsal margin of lateral area of pronotum, subalar prominence, and tegula, white; following areas can be dark brown to fuscous: dorsal 0.5 of propleuron, more or less all of remaining non-white areas of pronotum, dorsal region of mesopleuron immediately below tegula, posterior margin of mesoscutum, metanotum, dorsal division of metapleuron, and propodeum. Fore and middle legs with coxae, trochanters, and trochantelli white except for: basal 0.5-0.7 of coxae brownish-red ventrally; femora and tibia brownish-red; tarsomeres light brown to brown. Hind leg brownish-red except for: narrow white apical margin of trochanter; tibia dorsally with irregular light brown maculations; and brown tarsomeres. Metasoma varying from completely brown to dark brown, to having median section of T1, and lateral margins of remaining tergites, brownish-red and remaining areas dark brown. Wing: membrane clear; basal 0.2 of wing with veins white, remaining vein sections brown.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Head.</emphasis>
Clypeus smooth, dorsally with fine punctures separated by 1.0-1.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter becoming less dense ventrally; ventral margin medially straight and with blunted or obsolete sublateral apices. Supraclypeal area rugulose-punctate with punctures separated by 0.5-1.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter becoming sparser laterally. Gena smooth, finely punctate with punctures separated by 0.5-1.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Malar space 1.5-1.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
basal mandibular width. Supra-antennal area smooth, coarsely punctate with punctures separated by 0.2-0.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Vertex smooth, with coarse punctures separated by 0.5-2.0
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Antenna with 31-33 flagellomeres.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
Mesonotum smooth with coarse punctures separated by 0.5-1.0
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Scutellum smooth, coarsely punctate with punctures separated by 0.5-1.0
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Mesopleuron coarsely punctate with punctures separated by 0.2-0.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Speculum smooth, punctation varying between impunctate to coarsely punctate dorsally. Ventral division of metapleuron coarsely punctate with punctures separated by 0.1-0.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Dorsal division of metapleuron varying from smooth to sparsely and finely punctate. Propodeum coarsely punctate with punctures separated by 0.1-0.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
their diameter. Posterior transverse carina and pleural carina present; lateral longitudinal carina absent; remainder of carinae reduced and varying from obsolete to subobsolete medially. Tarsal claws simple.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Metasoma.</emphasis>
Postpetiole varying from punctate to granulate. T2 length 1.3-1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
posterior width. T2-7 granulate with dense shallow, punctures becoming sparser and indistinct posteriorly. Gastrocoelus granulate. Thyridium distant from T2 anterior margin by 0.8-1.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
thyridial length.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Male</emphasis>
(Fig.
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). Body length 7.0-7.3 mm; fore wing length: 3.9-4.4 mm. As in female, except for: UCDC specimen with small yellowish-white triangular mark between clypeus and ventral corner of eye; clypeus yellowish-white except dark brown ventral margin; apical 0.3 of hind tibia brown. In the Big Bend, Texas specimen hind tibia entirely brown.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 11.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus mexicanus</emphasis>
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sp. nov., paratype male (Mexico: Saltillo)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
habitus
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">B</emphasis>
head, frontal view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
); 1.0 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">B</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1972-07-21" collectorName="B. &amp; C. Dasch" country="Mexico" location="Saltillo" specimenCount="♀" stateProvince="Coahuila" typeStatus="Holotype">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
:
<collectingCountry name="Mexico">Mexico</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount></specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="Mexico" name="Coahuila de Zaragoza">Coahuila</collectingRegion>
,
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.656064" unit="mi" value="6.0">6 mi.</quantity>
west of
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C5531ABE6EA55DFD9C53BB08541A4A08:69F233A4D06A29A98DA5B6FA16C92112" country="Mexico" name="Saltillo" stateProvince="Coahuila">Saltillo</location>
;
<collectingDate value="1972-07-21">21.vii.1972</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>B. &amp; C. Dasch</collectorName>
; EMUSENT00000197.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1968-10-12" collectingDateMax="1972-07-22" collectingDateMin="1968-10-12" collectorName="B. &amp; C. Dasch, R. H., E. M. Painter" country="Mexico" elevation="2073" location="Tehuacan" specimenCount="5" specimenCount-female="1" specimenCount-male="4" stateProvince="Puebla" typeStatus="Paratypes">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<typeStatus>Paratypes</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
:
<collectingCountry name="Mexico">Mexico</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="male">4♂</specimenCount>
; same collection data as holotype;
<collectingDate value="1972-07-20" valueMax="1972-07-22" valueMin="1972-07-20">20-22.vii.1972</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>B. &amp; C. Dasch</collectorName>
; EMUSENT00000162, EMUSENT000000346, EMUSENT000000326, EMUSENT00000509 •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="Mexico" name="Puebla">Puebla</collectingRegion>
,
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.828032" unit="mi" value="30.0">30 mi.</quantity>
SW of
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C5531ABE6EA55DFD9C53BB08541A4A08:26DB3CE5F8EF35903FC91C706F0FAC8C" country="Mexico" name="Tehuacan" stateProvince="Puebla">Tehuacan</location>
</normalizedToken>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.07264" unit="ft" value="6800.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.07264" unit="ft" value="6800.0">6800 ft</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="1968-10-12">12.x.1968</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>R. H., E. M. Painter</collectorName>
; EMUSENT00000692
</materialsCitation>
.
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1963-11-01" collectingDateMax="1987-09-06" collectingDateMin="1963-11-01" collectorName="H. &amp; M. Townes, S. &amp; J. Peck, E. E. Grissell, R. F. Denno, C. Overmiller" country="Mexico" county="Big Bend National Park" elevation="1524" location="Portal" municipality="Big Bend" specimenCount="6" specimenCount-female="4" specimenCount-male="2" stateProvince="Arizona" typeStatus="paratype">
USA •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="United States of America" name="Arizona">Arizona</collectingRegion>
;
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C5531ABE6EA55DFD9C53BB08541A4A08:6D212CBBF730DCE97F7E96A57A656EFA" country="Mexico" county="Big Bend National Park" municipality="Big Bend" name="Portal" stateProvince="Arizona">Portal</location>
,
<collectingDate value="1974-08-28">28.viii.1974</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>H. &amp; M. Townes</collectorName>
; EMUS0000273 •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
; same data as preceding;
<collectingDate value="1987-09-06">6.ix.1987</collectingDate>
; EMUSENT00000272 •
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="United States of America" name="Texas">Texas</collectingRegion>
<collectingMunicipality>Big Bend</collectingMunicipality>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="5000.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="5000.0">5000 ft.</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="1975-08-10">10.viii.1975</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>S. &amp; J. Peck</collectorName>
; EMUSENT00000361 •
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="United States of America" name="Texas">Texas</collectingRegion>
, Government Springs, Grapevine Hills,
<collectingCounty>Big Bend National Park</collectingCounty>
;
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="5000.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="5000.0">5000 ft.</elevation>
</quantity>
;
<collectingDate value="1971-09-01">1.ix.1971</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>E. E. Grissell</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>R. F. Denno</collectorName>
; UCDC •
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
; &quot;Ex-chrysanthemum cut flws. fr.
<collectingCountry name="Mexico">Mexico</collectingCountry>
at El Paso&quot;;
<collectingDate value="1963-11-01">1.xi.1963</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>C. Overmiller</collectorName>
; USNM
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="57" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Claridge" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus mexicanus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. is the southernmost ranging
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wesmael" authorityYear="1859" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species in the New World. Its range spans from the southern border of the USA in Arizona and Texas south to central Mexico in
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tehuacán">Tehuacan</normalizedToken>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Heterischnus mexicanus sp. nov., paratype male (Mexico: Saltillo) A habitus B head, frontal view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (A); 1.0 mm (B)." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.85.67792.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/583746" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">11</figureCitation>
). Records indicate that adults are active from late July to October and are likely active later in the year in the southern portion of its range as the latter date is from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tehuacán">Tehuacan</normalizedToken>
, Mexico. No host records are known for
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. mexicanus" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">H. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="57" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
As in
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. coloradensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="coloradensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">H. coloradensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. huardi" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="huardi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">H. huardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a few specimens of
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. mexicanus" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">H. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. show an overall lighter coloration.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="57" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">This species epithet refers to its distribution, the majority of which is in Mexico.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 12.</emphasis>
Distribution of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Claridge" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Ichneumonidae" genus="Heterischnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterischnus mexicanus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Heterischnus mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.
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