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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.489.9258" ID-GBIF-Dataset="eb9c10de-5fd4-4fd0-8f7b-d5c64d05d807" ID-PMC="PMC4395838" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-489-33" ID-PubMed="25878531" ID-ZBK="48B9FE9C0DAC40288FB47DD4000D8C4D" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2015" ModsDocID="1313-2970-489-33" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 489" ModsDocTitle="An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae)" checkinTime="1451244543925" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Aguirre, Helmuth, de Almeida, Luis Felipe, Shaw, Scott Richard &amp; Sarmiento, Carlos E." docDate="2015" docId="21313206E353E0CB6D16A1A444E77F66" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 489: 33-94" docOrigin="ZooKeys 489" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.489.9258" docTitle="Meteorus magnoculus Aguirre, Almeida &amp; Shaw, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="734B83C5-1DCD-4CAC-ABB6-817BD179B3AA" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="63" masterDocId="FFCF9477FFB1FF9BFFC1FFD4CB5A5B2C" masterDocTitle="An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae)" masterLastPageNumber="94" masterPageNumber="33" pageNumber="62" updateTime="1668160128997" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>de Almeida, Luis Felipe</mods:namePart>
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classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae
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<subSubSection pageId="29" pageNumber="62" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/734B83C5-1DCD-4CAC-ABB6-817BD179B3AA" authority="Aguirre, Almeida &amp; Shaw" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Meteorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meteorus magnoculus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnoculus">Meteorus magnoculus Aguirre, Almeida &amp; Shaw</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="29" pageNumber="62">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Figures 111-117, 118-120
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<pageBreakToken pageId="30" pageNumber="63" start="start">Diagnosis</pageBreakToken>
.
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Occipital carina complete; large ocelli, ocellus-ocullar distance 0.5-0.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
ocellar diameter; huge eyes, head height 1.2-1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye height; mandibles twisted; notauli deeply impressed, distinctive and rugose; propodeum aerolate-rugose; dorsope absent; ventral borders of first tergite joined completely along
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
of segment; ovipositor basally thickened and slightly curved; ovipositor 2.4-3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
longer than first tergite; mesosoma ferruginous, head mostly dark, metasoma and legs white and black.
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<caption pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Figures 111-117.
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sp. n. female. 111 Habitus in lateral view 112 head in dorsal view 113 head in frontal view 114 propodeum in dorso-lateral view 115 mesoscutum in dorsal view 116 metasoma in dorso-lateral view 117 first tergite in dorso-lateral view.
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Figures 118-120.
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sp. n. male. 118 Habitus lateral view 119 head in frontal view 120 head in dorsal view.
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Body color.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Antenna dark brown; annulus absent; head black except a small brown patch between each lateral ocelli and its closest compound eye; clypeus yellow; mesosoma mostly ferruginous except propleuron anterior 2/3 black, posterior 1/3 and interior borders yellow; pronotum ferruginous on the upper half, then gradually becomes yellow toward the lower border. Prothoracic coxa, trochanter and trochantellus yellow, remaining leg orange; mesothoracic legs brown except coxa, trochanter, trochantellus, both femur and tibia basally, and most of tarsus yellow. Metathoracic coxa basally orange-ferruginous, distally black; metathoracic trochanter, tibia basally and tarsus white-yellow; remaining hind leg black. Basal half and a narrow patch along the distal border of T1 yellow, T1 medially black; T2 on the basal border and T7 throughout white-yellow, remaining T2 and T3-T5 black, T6 and T8 brown; sterna yellow white, with brown patches on the sterna 5-7. Wings hyaline; stigma dark brown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="body length">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Body length.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">6.6 mm.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="head">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Head.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Antenna with 33 flagellomeres; flagellar length/width ratios as follows: F1 = 4.2, F2 = 4, F3 = 3.3, F31 = 2.2, F32 = 2, F33 = 3; head 1.2 wider than high; occipital carina complete; ocellus-ocullar distance 0.6
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ocellar diameter; huge eyes, head height 1.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye height; temple length 0.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye length in dorsal view; vertex in dorsal view not descending vertically behind the lateral ocelli; frons smooth and polished; face maximum width 1.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
minimum width; face puncticulate; face minimum width 0.7
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
clypeus width; clypeus punctate; malar space length 0.1
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
mandible width basally; mandibles twisted.
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Mesosoma.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Pronotum in lateral view carinate and rugose; propleuron coarsely rugose; notauli deeply impressed, distinctive and rugose; mesonotal lobes well defined; central lobe of mesoscutum punctulate; scutellar furrow with three carinae; mesopleuron punctate; precoxal sulcus long, narrow and aerolate-rugose; metapleuron rugose; propodeum aerolate-rugose, longitudinal and transversal carinae absent, median depression weakly impressed.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Legs.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Hind coxa strigate and punctate; tarsal claw with a large lobe.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="wings">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Wings.</paragraph>
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Wing length 4.9 mm; second submarginal cell of forewing not strongly narrowed anteriorly. Front wing: length of vein r 0.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein 3RSa; vein 3RSb straight; length of vein 3RSa 0.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein r-m; vein m-cu antefurcal. Hind wing: length of vein 1M 1.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein cu-a; length of vein 1M 1.1
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein r-m.
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Metasoma.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Dorsope absent; ventral borders of first tergite joined completely along
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
of segment; first tergite with faintly demarcate and parallel costae; ovipositor basally thickened and slightly curved; ovipositor 2.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
longer than first tergite.
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Cocoon.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Female variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Body length 6 mm; antenna with 35-36 flagellomeres; ocellus-ocullar distance 0.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
ocellar diameter; head height 1.3-1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye height; temple length 0.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye length in dorsal view; face maximum width 1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
minimum width; face minimum width 0.8-0.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
clypeus width; malar space length 0.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
mandible width basally; wing length 4.8 mm. Front wing: length of vein r 0.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein 3RSa; length of vein 3RSa 1.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein r-m. Hind wing: length of vein 1M 1.1-1.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein cu-a; length of vein 1M 1-1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein r-m; ovipositor 2.4-3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
longer than first tergite.
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="male variation">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Male variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
T2 with a yellow cup-shape area basally, remaining black; sterna 2-3 yellow-cream, sterna 4-8 brown; wings hyaline; body length 5.2 mm; antenna with 32 flagellomeres; head 1.1 wider than high; ocellus-ocullar distance equal to ocellar diameter; head height 1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye height; temple length 0.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
eye length in dorsal view; frons strigulate; face maximum width 1.1
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
minimum width; face strigate-punctate; face minimum width 0.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
clypeus width; malar space length 0.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
mandible width basally; wing length 4.1 mm; length of vein 3RSa equal to length of vein r-m; vein m-cu of forewing intersticial; length of vein 1M 0.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of vein r-m; first tergite with costae parallel.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="type locality">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">COSTA RICA, San Jose, San Pedro, Sabanilla.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="type specimen">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Type specimen.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Holotype female (point mounted), COSTA RICA, San Jose, San Pedro, Sabanilla, collected from a pyralid leaf folder on
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Convolvulaceae" genus="Ipomea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ipomea" order="Solanales" pageId="30" pageNumber="63" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Ipomea</taxonomicName>
[correct spelling
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Convolvulaceae" genus="Ipomoea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ipomoea" order="Solanales" pageId="30" pageNumber="63" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Ipomoea</taxonomicName>
, A/N] XI.1997, X. Miranda leg., UWIM.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Paratype. One female, one male, same data as holotype, UWIM.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Costa Rica, province of San Jose.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="biology">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Parasitoid of a leaf folder pyralid (
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:
<taxonomicName family="Pyralidae" lsidName="" pageId="30" pageNumber="63" rank="family">Pyralidae</taxonomicName>
) sampled on
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(
<taxonomicName family="Convolvulaceae" lsidName="" pageId="30" pageNumber="63" rank="family">Convolvulaceae</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
Both the big eyes and large and colorful body make
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very distinct from the other species of the genus. The most similar one is
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sharing with
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the occipital carina complete, mandibles totally twisted, first metasomal tergite without dorsopes and ventral borders of first tergite joined along
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
of segment. But
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is easy to separate by its bigger eyes (head height/eye height = 1.3-1.4 vs. 1.5-1.6 in
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), bigger ocelli (ocellus-ocullar distance/ocellar diameter = 0.5-0.6 vs. 1.2-1.6 in
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) shorter malar space (malar space length/mandible width basally = 0.1 vs. 0.8-1.2 in
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) and its combination of ferruginous, black and white on the body (mostly black-dark brown in
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).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="30" pageNumber="63" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="30" pageNumber="63">
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is, until now, the
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species with biggest relative eye size inhabiting the Neotropical Region. The specific epithet is composed by the Latin prefix
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meaning large, and the Latin root
<normalizedToken originalValue="“oculus”">&quot;oculus&quot;</normalizedToken>
meaning eye.
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