Crassomicrodus clypealis Figueroa, Sharkey & Romero

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 : 34-36

Crassomicrodus clypealis Figueroa, Sharkey & Romero sp. n. Fig. 3 a–e

Description female.

Body. Length. 7.38-7.50 mm. Color (Fig. 3c). Integument yellowish-orange except black as follows, mandible apex, head, antenna, propleuron, mesopleuron, metapleuron, metanotum, propodeum, coxa and trochanters; ocelli translucent honey yellow; apical area of hind tibia, middle and hind tarsomeres black ish; wing veins dark brown; forewing strongly infumate with a hyaline spot on the first submarginal cell that is similar in size to the parastigma. Head (Fig. 3ab). Transverse in frontal view; face with weak longitudinal ridge dorsomedially; eye height/width = 1.38-1.43; eye height 0.68 –0.70× inter-ocular distance; area between antennal sockets with a median pyramidal-shaped elevation and two weakly defined tubercles; frons deeply excavated with a pair of microfoveolate grooves that diverge towards the ocellar area; posterior surface of antennal sockets smooth; groove between lateral ocelli smooth; median ocellus separated from lateral ocellus by smooth groove; gena slightly bulging; malar space 0.46 –0.48× as long as eye height; clypeus 2.40 –2.42× wider than high; length of ventrolateral margin of clypeus distinctly longer than diameter of te ntorial pit; antenna with 38-39 flagellomeres; setae at base of mandible distinctly longer than setae on rest of body surface. Mesosoma (Fig. 3cde). Pronotum smooth; lateral pronotal margins with weakly crenulate groove; notauli impressed; anterolateral edges of scutellum lacking small acute projection; scutellar disc convex with sparse setae from 0.07 to 0.08 mm in length; scutellar disc sloped posteriorly and rounded; lateral scutellar depression with punctures and foveolae; carinae of central metanotal area in triangular shaped; propodeum reticulate rugose; subalar lobe separated from mesopleuron by narrow rugulose groove, width distinctly shorter than the subalar lobe; metapleuron reticulate rugulose or reticulate punctures. Legs. Inner spur of middle tibia 0.69 –0.72× length of basitarsus; inner spur of hind tibia 0.55 –0.58× length of basitarsus; metabasitarsus 1.15 –1.23× length of tarsomeres III, IV, and V combined; hind tibia 2.25 –2.30× longer than basitarsus; hind femur length 3.56 –3.78× its maximum width. Wings. Forewing length/width = 2.42-2.50; stigma 2.88 –3.00× longer than maximum width; forewing vein R1 0.58 –0.62× as long as vein RS; vein RS sinuate; vein r arising slightly before middle of stigma; second submarginal cell triangular, with petiole 0.06-0.09 mm long; vein M+CU distinctly pigmented throughout; hind wing length/width = 2.91-3.15; hind wing vein 1M 1.35 –1.43× longer than 1r-m; hind wing with 6-7 hamuli. Metasoma. Apical width of petiole (tergum 1) 2.82 –3.14× wider than basal width; minimum width of petiole 0.56 –0.64× apical width; length of ovipositor sheath 0.35-0.37 mm.

Male.

Similar to female, except antenna with 36 to 41 flagellomeres and pronotum may be slightly melanic.

Host.

Unkown.

Distribution.

USA.

Diagnosis.

Distinguished from other Crassomicrodus species by the following combination of characters: area between antennal sockets with a median pyramidal-shaped elevation, length of ventrolateral margin of clypeus distinctly longer than diameter of tentorial pit, and gena slightly bulging.

Remarks.

This species is near to male of Crassomicrodus fulvescens , but differs in that Crassomicrodus fulvescens has the length of ventrolateral margin of clypeus similar to the diameter of the tentorial pit; gena distinctly bulging; and forewing infumate with a large hyaline spot in first submarginal cell.

Etymology.

Named “clypealis” to emphasize that the ventral margin of the clypeus is longer than the diameter of each tentorial pit.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀: USA, Colorado: nr. Roggen, 4/IX/1972, Lanham U.N. & C.C. Lanham. Allotype ♂: Roggen, 29/VIII/1930, Rodeck H.G.. Holotype and Allotype deposited in UCMC. Paratypes: 1 ♂; USA, Colorado: 3 mi. NW Roggen, Weld Co., 4/IX/1974, Lanham U.N. (CNC); 1 ♀ same data as holotype; 1 ♂ same data as allotype (UCMC); Sandhills N of Roggen Weld Co.: 1 ♂ 12/IX/1934, Rodeck H.G. (HIC); 1 ♂ 12/IX/1934, Rodeck H.G. (USNM); 2 ♂ 12/IX/1934, Rodeck H.G.; 1 ♂ 16/VIII/1990, Bowers M.D. (UCMC). Kansas: Ness Co., 1 ♂ 7/IX/1965, Blocker H.D. (KSUC). Nebraska: Halsey: 1 ♀, 1 ♂ 11/VIII/1925, 1 ♂ 12/VIII/1925, 1 ♂ 15/VIII/1925, Dawson R.W. (UMSP).