Crassomicrodus jalisciensis Figueroa, Romero & Sharkey

Figueroa, Jose Isaac, Sharkey, Michael Joseph, Napoles, Jesus Romero, Garcia, Jose Antonio Sanchez, Martinez, Ana Mabel, Lopez-Martinez, Victor & Pineda, Samuel, 2011, Revision of the new world genus Crassomicrodus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae), with an identification key to species, ZooKeys 142, pp. 27-75 : 39-41

Crassomicrodus jalisciensis Figueroa, Romero & Sharkey sp. n. Fig. 6 a–e

Description female.

Body. Length. 7.35-7.50 mm. Color (Fig. 6e). Integument yellowish orange except black as follows, face, frons, gena temple, vertex, antenna, mandible apex, propleuron, ventral area of mesopleuron, apical area of hind tibia and tarsomeres; eye silver or blackish, ocelli translucent yellow; blackish; wing veins dark brown; forewing infumate with a hyaline spot on the first submarginal cell that is similar in size to the parastigma. Sometimes trochanters blackish and/or propleuron yellowish orange. Head (Fig. 6ab). Triangular in frontal view; face without longitudinal ridge dorsomedially; eye height/width = 1.34-1.45; eye height 0.59 –0.61× inter-ocular distance; area between antennal sockets with a median pyramidal-shaped elevation; frons deeply excavated and crenulate with a pair of microfoveolate grooves that diverge towards the ocellar area; posterior surface of antennal sockets rugulose; groove between lateral ocelli smooth; median ocellus separated from lateral ocellus by smooth groove; gena not bulging; malar space 0.58 –0.63× as long as eye height; clypeus 2.40 –2.50× wider than high; length of ventrolateral margin of clypeus similar to diameter of tentorial pit; antenna with 38-40 flagellomeres; setae at base of mandible slightly longer than setae on rest of body surface; face setose. Mesosoma (Fig. 6cde). Pronotum strigose; lateral pronotal margins with weakly crenulate groove; notauli impressed; anterolateral edges of scutellum lacking small acute projection; scutellar disc convex with sparse setae from 0.13 to 0.15 mm in length; scutellar disc sloped posteriorly and rounded; lateral scutellar depression punctulate; carinae of central metanotal area almost pentagonal shaped with the top inverted; propodeum reticulate rugulose; subalar lobe separated from mesopleuron by wide rugulose groove, width almost of similar size to subalar lobe; metapleuron reticulate-rugulose. Legs. Inner spur of middle tibia 0.69 –0.78× length of basitarsus; inner spur of hind tibia 0.61 –0.78× length of basitarsus; metabasitarsus 1.24 –1.26× length of tarsomeres III, IV, and V combined; hind tibia 2.50 –2.63× longer than basitarsus; hind femur length 4.54 –4.76× its maximum width. Wings. Forewing length/width = 2.72-3.02; stigma 3.45 –3.57× longer than maximum width; forewing vein R1 0.63 –0.69× as long as vein RS; vein RS sinuate; vein r arising before middle of stigma; second submarginal cell triangular, with petiole 0.09-0.11 mm long; vein M+CU distinctly pigmented throughout; hind wing length/width = 3.76-4.11; hind wing vein 1M 1.56 –1.64× longer than 1r-m; hind wing with 5-6 hamuli. Metasoma. Apical width of petiole (tergum 1) 3.07 –3.23× wider than basal width; minimum width of petiole 0.54 –0.58× apical width; length of ovipositor sheath 0.30-0.33 mm.

Male.

Similar to female except color as follows: head, propleuron, pronotum, scutellum, metanotum, propodeum, mesopleuron, subalar lobe, metapleuron, coxae and trochanters black; inner spur of middle tibia almost half length of basitarsus (0.55 ×).

Host.

Unknown

Distribution.

Mexico.

Diagnosis.

Distinguished from other Crassomicrodus species by the following combination of characters: area between antennal sockets with a median pyramidal-shaped elevation, posterior surface of antennal sockets rugulose, face setose, setae at base of mandible slightly longer than setae on rest of body surface, subalar lobe separated from mesopleuron by wide rugulose groove, and mesosoma mostly yellowish orange with wings infumate.

Remark.

This speciesis near Crassomicrodus oaxaquensis , but differs in that Crassomicrodus oaxaquensis has the mesosoma black; wings hyaline; face with a weak longitudinal ridge dorsomedially; area between antennal sockets with a median pyramidal-shaped elevation and two weakly defined tubercles. One specimen of Crassomicrodus jalisciensis has the head and mesosoma black, but differs from Crassomicrodus oaxaquensis by leg and wing coloration.

Etymology.

Crassomicrodus jalisciensis refers to the state of Jalisco, where all specimens have been found.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀: MEXICO, Jalisco: 9 miles W Tepatitlán, El Refugio, 3/VII/1953, C. Vaurie & P. Vaurie. Allotype ♂: same data as holotype. Paratypes: 2 ♀ same data as holotype; Guadalajara, 1 ♀ 23-28/VII/1965, H.E. Evans (MCZ); 8 miles S Guadalajara, 1 ♀ 10/VII/1963, Parker F.D. & L.A. Stange (USNM); Guadalajara, 2 ♂ 16/VII/1951, 2 ♂ 1 ♀ 17/VII/1951, Evans H.E. (AEIC). Holotype and allotype and paratypes with same data deposited in AMNH.