Thyreodon zitaniae, GAULD, 2004

Gauld, Ian D. & Janzen, Daniel H., 2004, The systematics and biology of the Costa Rican species of parasitic wasps in the Thyreodon genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (3), pp. 297-351 : 301

8. Propodeum moderately coarsely reticulate with a sharp longitudinal crest above and behind spiracle, and with a distinct zigzag carina extending backwards from this ridge along the lateral margin of the dorsal surface of the propodeum; wings uniformly black ( Fig. 13 ); entire central part of mesopleuron, from upper end of epicnemial carina to hind margin, smooth and polished, impunctate..................................... 13. zitaniae

– Propodeum finely wrinkled, rounded above and behind spiracle, and without a zigzag carina extending backwards laterally; wings black with a central hyaline area ( Fig. 14 ); central part of mesopleuron punctate, except near hind margin.............................9

Figures

Figures 7–14. Fore wings, showing colour patterns. 7, Rhynchophion flammipennis, normal form. 8, Rhynchophion flammipennis, dark form. 9, Thyreodon rufothorax. 10, T. atriventris. 11. T. maculipennis. 12. T. walkerae. 13. T. zitaniae. 14. T. papei.