Pseudapanteles analorenaguevarae 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 : 13

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudapanteles analorenaguevarae Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 19- 23

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. COSTA RICA, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sector Cacao, Sendero Circular, 1185 meters, 10.92714, -85.46683, 18.xii.2008. ACG database code: DHJPAR0031187.

Paratypes.

11 ♂ (CNC). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0013526, DHJPAR0031186, DHJPAR0031191, DHJPAR0031192, DHJPAR0031193, DHJPAR0031202, DHJPAR0031204, DHJPAR0031209, DHJPAR0031302, DHJPAR0031307, DHJPAR0031321.

Diagnosis.

It belongs to the annulicornis species-group, and can be separated from other species within that group based on the combination of head brown, flagellomeres 7-9 white, anteromesoscutum with orange marks centrally, and metatarsus and posterior 0.2 of metatibia brown.

Description.

Female. Body length 2.8-2.9 mm. Fore wing length 3.0-3.1 mm. Head color: mostly dark brown to black, except for yellow clypeus, labrum, mandibles, and spot on lower corner of gena near oral foramen. Flagellomere color: central flagellomere white-yellow, rest dark brown to black. Mesosoma color: mostly dark brown to black, with pronotum, propleura, anteromesoscutum, spot on mesopleura, and scutellar disc at least partially orange. Metasoma color (dorsally): mostly dark brown to black, except for yellow-orange anterior 0.4-0.6 of mediotergite 1. Coxae color: pale/pale/pale but with anterior 0.1-0.2 dark. Metatibia color: mostly pale, with posterior 0.1-0.2 dark. Metatarsus color: dark. Pterostigma color: mostly dark, but with anterior pale spot. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin 2.6-3.0 ×. 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: 1.0 × as long as metatibia.

Male. As female, but with all flagellomeres brown, and sometimes anteromesoscutum and metasoma darker.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 20, barcode compliant sequences: 20.

Biology/ecology.

Malaise-trapped.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG cloud forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Sra. Ana Lorena Guevara, a key figure in INBio’s (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) development of biodiversity prospecting, and a Vice-Minister for the Environment who supported ACG growth and development throughout her four years in office in the 2010's.