Pseudapanteles hernanbravoi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex & Kula, Robert, 2014, Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 446, pp. 1-82 : 16

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudapanteles hernanbravoi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 59- 64

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. COSTA RICA, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sector Santa Rosa, Bosque San Emilio, 300m, 10.84389, -85.61384, 19.iv.1999. ACG database code: DHJPAR0013144.

Paratypes.

1 ♀ (CNC). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0031742.

Diagnosis.

It belongs to the annulicornis species-group, and can be separated from other species within that group based on the combination of body length 2.5 mm, fore wing length 2.7 mm; pterostigma pale with thin brown margins, T1 shape and T2 mostly longitudinally striate.

Description.

Female. Body length 2.4-2.5 mm. Fore wing length 2.6-2.7 mm. Head color: mostly dark brown to black; except for orange on most of frons and face, and yellow clypeus, labrum, mandibles, and spot on lower corner of gena near oral foramen. Flagellomere color: first 6-8 flagellomere lighter in color than the rest (which are dark brown to black), making the antenna look as bicolored. Mesosoma color: mostly orange, with parts or all of propodeum, metapleuron, metascutellum, and axillar complex brown to black. Metasoma color (dorsally): mostly yellow-orange, except for mediotergites 4-7 which are centrally brown. Coxae color: pale/pale/mostly or completely dark. Metatibia color: mostly pale, with posterior 0.1-0.2 dark. Metatarsus color: dark. Pterostigma color: pale, with thin dark margins. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin 2.1-2.5 ×. Mediotergite 1 maximum width/width at posterior margin 1.7-1.8 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 3.4-3.5 ×. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: Mostly with longitudinally striate sculpture (sometimes with small, smooth area centrally). Ovipositor sheaths length: 1.1 × as long as metatibia.

Male. Unknown.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 2, barcode compliant sequences: 2.

Biology/ecology.

Malaise-trapped.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG dry forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Sr. Hernan Bravo, who, as a Costa Rican Minister of the Environment and later, directly and indirectly supported ACG’s conservation through its biodiversity development, and especially with respect to geothermal resources