Apanteles lilliammenae Fernandez-Triana

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Rodriguez, Josephine J., Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie D., Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Burns, John M., Solis, M. Alma, Brown, John, Cardinal, Sophie, Goulet, Henri & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2014, Review of Apantelessensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica, ZooKeys 383, pp. 1-565 : 204-205

Apanteles lilliammenae Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Figs 189, 318

Apanteles Rodriguez64 ( Smith et al. 2006). Interim name provided by the authors.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Horizontes, Vado Esteron, 95m, 10.76271, -85.56004.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0001675. 2. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Horizontes, Vado Esteron, 03.ix.1996, 95m, 10.76271, -85.56004, DHJPAR0001675.<<Hmm, got a problem here. Your holotype is a 375 bp specimen that treed in Apanteles Rodriguez23 but by host, clearly does not belong there; it may well be R64 and happy to have it there, but a complete barcode is the only way I have of moving it from 23 to 64, unless you have some distinguising morphological trait. None of those short sequence specimens from the wrong host in Apanteles Rodriguez23 should be used for paratatypes or holotypes, so please select one from the large group of R64 that gave really good barcodes. I am doing my best to avoid this kind of perturbation to the paper, but here we really do need to do it (I also note that this DHJPAR was also placed in the paratype series, and best not to put it there either).

Paratypes.

44 ♀, 19 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0002713, DHJPAR0004637, DHJPAR0005241, DHJPAR0005250, DHJPAR0011963, 96-SRNP-9935.

Description.

Female. Metatibia color (outer face): with extended pale coloration (light yellow to orange–yellow), ranging from 0.4 to almost entire metatibia length. Fore wing veins color: veins C+Sc+R and R1 mostly brown; usually veins r, 2RS, 2M, (RS+M)b, 1CU, 2Cua, and 1 m–cu partially brown; interior area of other veins, and at least part of pterostigma, usually light brown or yellowish–white. Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.3-2.4 mm or 2.5-2.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.5-2.6 mm. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.7-2.8. Mediotergite 1 maximum width/width at posterior margin: 1.4-1.5. Ovipositor sheaths length/metafemur length: 1.0. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibia length: 0.8.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 19, barcode compliant sequences: 19.

Biology/ecology.

Gregarious (Fig. 318). Host: Hesperiidae , Urbanus doryssus DHJ02.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Comments.

A few females (2-3 out of 45 studied) have the metatibia with yellow color 0.3 × or so (i.e., not like the other, +93% of the specimens which have the yellow area extending to at least 0.4 × metatibia length, usually up to 0.5 ×).

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Lilliam Mena in recognition of her diligent efforts for the administration of INBio, Costa Rica’s Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad and support of the INBio directorate.