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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/F111A855-0E56-49EC-84E5-A5818175173C" authority="Aguirre &amp; Shaw" authorityName="Aguirre &amp; Shaw" authorityYear="2014" class="Hexapoda" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus orocrambivorus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orocrambivorus" status="sp. n.">Meteorus orocrambivorus Aguirre &amp; Shaw</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Occipital carina complete; ocelli small (ocelli-ocular distance 2.0-2.3
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ocellar diameter in females, 1.7
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in males); mandible stout and twisted; notauli smooth and not distinct in females, but deeply impressed, narrow, distinct and rugose in males; female micropterous, male macropterous; propodeum smooth in females, but rugulose-lacunose in males; tarsal claw without lobe; dorsope and laterope absent; ventral borders of first tergite almost touching distally; ovipositor 1.9-2.3
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longer than first tergite).
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Description of holotype female.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Body color.</emphasis>
Dark brown-ferruginous
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Body length.</emphasis>
3.5 mm.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Head.</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
). Antenna with 16 flagellomeres; flagellar length/width ratios as follows: F1 = 2.6, F2 = 2.2, F3 = 1.9, F 14 = 1, F 15 = 0.9, F 16 = 2.0; head 1.1
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wider than high; occipital carina complete; ocelli ocular distance 2.0
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ocellar diameter; head height 1.4
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eye height; temple length 0.7
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eyes length in dorsal view; vertex in dorsal view not descending vertically behind the lateral ocelli; frons smooth and polished; maximum face width 1.4
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minimum face width; face finely rugulose; minimum face width 0.7
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clypeus width; clypeus punctate; malar space length 0.4
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mandible width basally; mandible stout and twisted.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Figures 1-6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Meteorus orocrambivorus</emphasis>
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sp. n.
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Female lateral habitus
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Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing
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Female head frontal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">4</emphasis>
Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view
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Male lateral habitus
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Male frontal view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Figs 2</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">4</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 710" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 7 - 10. Contrasting differences between males and females. 7 female head and mesonotum dorsal view 8 male head and mesonotum dorsal view 9 female propodeum dorsal view 10 male propodeum dorsal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11963" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">7</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 710" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 7 - 10. Contrasting differences between males and females. 7 female head and mesonotum dorsal view 8 male head and mesonotum dorsal view 9 female propodeum dorsal view 10 male propodeum dorsal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11963" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">9</figureCitation>
). Pronotum in lateral view dorsally rugose; propleuron smooth and polished; notauli smooth and not distinct; mesonotal lobes not defined; mesoscutum smooth and polished; scutellar furrow with one carina; mesopleuron smooth but rugulose close to tegula; sternaulus long, wide and rugose; metapleuron mostly smooth, rugose close to the coxa; suture between propodeum and metapleuron foveate; propodeum smooth; absence of longitudinal and transversal carinae on propodeum; median depression on propodeum weakly present.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Figures 7-10.</emphasis>
Contrasting differences between males and females.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">7</emphasis>
female head and mesonotum dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">8</emphasis>
male head and mesonotum dorsal view
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female propodeum dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">10</emphasis>
male propodeum dorsal view.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Wings.</emphasis>
Very reduced, at most reaching the scutellum apex (
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Legs.</emphasis>
Hind coxa slightly strigose dorsally; the remaining surface irregular and punticulate; hind femur 4.8
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longer than it is wide; tarsal claw without lobe.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Metasoma.</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Figs 1</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">4</figureCitation>
). Dorsope and laterope absent; ventral borders of first tergite almost touching distally; first tergite smooth and polished except the apical border with short and convergent costae; ovipositor 2.0
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longer than first tergite; ovipositor both not thickened basally and straight.
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variation based on paratypes.
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Body length 3.0-3.1 mm; head with long and scattered setae; head 1.2
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wider than high; ocelli ocular distance 2.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
ocellar diameter; head height 1.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye height; temples length 0.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eyes length in dorsal view; maximum face width 1.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
minimum face width; face strigulate; minimum face width
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clypeus width; malar space length 0.3-0.6
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mandible width basally; pronotum in lateral view dorsally lacunose-foveate, faintly costate ventrally; sternaulus carinate-foveate; propodeum smooth except a small, punctate patch dorsally; hind coxa either strigate-punctate, strigate, or with very small and disperse punctures; hind femur 4.6-5.2
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longer than it is wide; ventral borders of first tergite touching for a short distance; first tergite with costae convergent, faintly demarcated; T2 and T3 slightly coriaceous; ovipositor 1.9-2.3
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longer than first tergite; ovipositor neither thickened basally nor curved.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Male variation based on paratypes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Figs 5</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 16" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 6. Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. 1 Female lateral habitus 2 Female head and mesonotum dorsal view. The arrow indicates the reduced wing 3 Female head frontal view 4 Female propodeum and first metasomal tergite dorsal view 5 Male lateral habitus 6 Male frontal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11962" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">6</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 710" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 7 - 10. Contrasting differences between males and females. 7 female head and mesonotum dorsal view 8 male head and mesonotum dorsal view 9 female propodeum dorsal view 10 male propodeum dorsal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11963" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">8</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 710" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 7 - 10. Contrasting differences between males and females. 7 female head and mesonotum dorsal view 8 male head and mesonotum dorsal view 9 female propodeum dorsal view 10 male propodeum dorsal view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11963" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">10</figureCitation>
). Body black except the head with a small testaceous patch on the temple behind the eye; wings hyaline; body length 3.7 mm; antenna with 27 flagellomeres; ocelli ocular distance 1.7
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ocellar diameter; head height 1.6
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eye height; temples length 0.8-0.9
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eyes length in dorsal view; vertex in dorsal view not descending vertically behind the lateral ocelli; maximum face width 1.2
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minimum face width; minimum face width equal to clypeus width; malar space length 0.7-0.9
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mandible width basally; propleuron puncticulate and shiny; notauli deeply impressed, narrow, distinctive and rugose, with pronounced longitudinal carina; mesoscutal lobes well defined; central lobe of mesoscutum punctate; scutellar furrow with seven carinae; mesopleuron smooth and polished; sternaulus rugose; propodeum rugulose-lacunose; longitudinal and transversal carinae on propodeum absent; median depression on propodeum absent; hind coxa with very small and dispersed punctures; wing length 3.6-3.7 mm; second submarginal cell of fore wing not strongly narrowed anteriorly; vein r 0.5
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length of 3Rsa (fore wing); vein 3RSa 0.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of r-m (fore wing); vein m-cu of fore wing postfurcal; vein 1M 0.8-1
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length of cu-a (HW); vein 1M 0.8
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length of 1r-m (hind wing); dorsope and laterope absent; apparent dorsopes as deep grooves in the common dorsopes location; first tergite with faintly demarcated and parallel costae, which become more obvious on the apical border.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">
The micropterous condition of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus orocrambivorus</emphasis>
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females is unique among all known
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus</emphasis>
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. However if the males are compared with the rest of the New Zealand fauna,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus orocrambivorus</emphasis>
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seems closest to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus cobbus</emphasis>
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Huddleston (
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; p. 256, numeral 6 in the key). Males of both species share the following character states: body mostly black except a small, lighter patch (yellow or testaceous) on the temple behind the eyes; small ocelli (ocelli ocular distance ≥ 1.5
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ocellar diameter); eyes almost parallel (maximum face width ≤ 1.2
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minimum face width); mandibles stout and twisted; propodeum rugulose; dorsopes and lateropes absent, and ventral borders of first tergite touching for a short distance.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus orocrambivorus</emphasis>
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can be separated from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus cobbus</emphasis>
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by having antennae with 27 flagellomeres (30-33 in
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), notauli narrow, carinate and distinct (broad and reticulated in
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</taxonomicName>
), and first tergite costate (strigose in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Huddleston" authorityYear="1986" class="Hexapoda" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cobbus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Meteorus cobbus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Holotype.</emphasis>
Female (point-mounted). NEW ZEALAND, South Island, Lewis Pass, Hope River Valley, Glynn Wye Station,
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="27.78" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.463">172°27.78'E</geoCoordinate>
, 650 m; host plant
<taxonomicName authorityName="Edgar" authorityYear="1986" class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Poa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Poales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cita">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Poa cita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Edgar (silver tussock), host caterpillar
<taxonomicName authorityName="Doubleday" authorityYear="1843" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramosellus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Orocrambus ramosellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Doubleday (
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Crambidae</taxonomicName>
); collected as solitary parasitoid during the period November 2008 to January 2009; Claudio de Sassi, collector.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">
<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="50" start="start">Paratypes</pageBreakToken>
.
</emphasis>
Two females and seven males same data as the holotype; one female same data as holotype except collected at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="36.88" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.614666">42°36.88'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="27.62" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.46033">172°27.62'E</geoCoordinate>
, 800 m; two females and two males same data as holotype except collected at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="36.72" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.612">42°36.72'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="26.58" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.443">172°26.58'E</geoCoordinate>
; three females and two males same data as holotype except the host caterpillar collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Hack.) Cockayne at 1000 m; one female same data as holotype except the host caterpillar collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="36.88" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.614666">42°36.88'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="26.58" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.443">172°26.58'E</geoCoordinate>
; one female same data as holotype except the host caterpillar collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="36.88" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.614666">42°36.88'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="26.58" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.443">172°26.58'E</geoCoordinate>
, 650 m; six females and four males same data as holotype except the host caterpillar collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="36.88" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.614666">42°36.88'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="26.58" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.443">172°26.58'E</geoCoordinate>
, 1000 m; one female and one male same data as holotype except the host caterpillar collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at
<geoCoordinate degrees="42" direction="south" minutes="38.83" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-42.647167">42°38.83'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="172" direction="east" minutes="22.17" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="172.3695">172°22.17'E</geoCoordinate>
, 650 m.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="50" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">NEW ZEALAND, South Island, Lewis Pass, Hope River Valley, Glynn Wye Station.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="50" type="cocoon">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Cocoon.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1114" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 11 - 14. 11 Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. cocoon 12 Orocrambus ramosellus caterpillar 13 Orocrambus ramosellus adult 14 Lewis Pass, the type-locality." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11964" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
). Length 4.4 mm; width 1.6 mm; honey-brown translucent except apex cap golden, posteriorly bordered by a dark ring; oval-shaped, densely wrapped by silk, irregular cap border, anterior end (cap) nipple-like. The cocoon was found unattached inside a structure built by the caterpillar using grass leaves and silk (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1114" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 11 - 14. 11 Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. cocoon 12 Orocrambus ramosellus caterpillar 13 Orocrambus ramosellus adult 14 Lewis Pass, the type-locality." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11964" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
). No trace of a suspending thread was detected.
</paragraph>
<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11964" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" start="Figures 1114" startId="F3">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Figures 11-14.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">11</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Aguirre &amp; Shaw" authorityYear="2014" class="Hexapoda" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orocrambivorus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Meteorus orocrambivorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. n. cocoon
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">12</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Doubleday" authorityYear="1843" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramosellus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Orocrambus ramosellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
caterpillar
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">13</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Doubleday" authorityYear="1843" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramosellus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Orocrambus ramosellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
adult
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">14</emphasis>
Lewis Pass, the type-locality.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="51" pageId="5" pageNumber="50" type="biology">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="51" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1114" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 11 - 14. 11 Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. cocoon 12 Orocrambus ramosellus caterpillar 13 Orocrambus ramosellus adult 14 Lewis Pass, the type-locality." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11964" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">Figs 12</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1114" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 11 - 14. 11 Meteorus orocrambivorus sp. n. cocoon 12 Orocrambus ramosellus caterpillar 13 Orocrambus ramosellus adult 14 Lewis Pass, the type-locality." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11964" pageId="5" pageNumber="50">13</figureCitation>
). The information gathered from the type series and additional rearings indicates that
<taxonomicName authorityName="Aguirre &amp; Shaw" authorityYear="2014" class="Hexapoda" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orocrambivorus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">
<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="51" start="start">Meteorus</pageBreakToken>
orocrambivorus
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a solitary parasitoid of larval
<taxonomicName authorityName="Doubleday" authorityYear="1843" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramosellus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Orocrambus ramosellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Butler" authorityYear="1877" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplex">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Orocrambus simplex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1863" class="Insecta" family="Tortricidae" genus="Merophyas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leucaniana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Merophyas leucaniana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Parasitized
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Orocrambus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have been collected feeding on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Edgar" authorityYear="1986" class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Poa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Poales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cita">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Poa cita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Holcus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Poales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="lanatum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Holcus lanatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L.,
<taxonomicName genus="Anthoxantum" lsidName="" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" rank="species" species="odoratum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Anthoxantum odoratum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L.,
<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Noctuidae" genus="Agrotis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="capillaris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Agrotis capillaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L.,
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="rubra">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Festuca rubra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L. and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Connor &amp; Edgar" authorityYear="1979" baseAuthorityName="Hook. f." class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Rytidosperma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Poales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Spermatophyta" rank="species" species="setifolium">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Rytidosperma setifolium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Hook. f.) Connor &amp; Edgar.
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1863" class="Insecta" family="Tortricidae" genus="Merophyas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leucaniana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Merophyas leucaniana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was collected on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cockayne" authorityYear="1916" baseAuthorityName="Hack." class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Poaceae" genus="Festuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Graminales" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="novae-zelandiae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Festuca novae-zelandiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="51" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="51">
The species name
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">orocrambivorus</emphasis>
is a reference to its feeding habit. The stem of the specific epithet refers to the genus name of the host caterpillar,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" genus="Orocrambus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Orocrambus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the suffix comes from the Latin -
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vorare</emphasis>
meaning
<normalizedToken originalValue="“devour.”">&quot;devour.&quot;</normalizedToken>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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