Apanteles diegotorresi 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 : 115-117

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.383.6418

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:93106FE9-82C8-4937-91E7-339AEAD74BE5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/91DF0E35-1105-443A-8E29-1821E6A380D2

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Apanteles diegotorresi Fernandez-Triana
status

sp. n.

Apanteles diegotorresi Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Figs 112, 278

Apanteles Rodriguez16 ( Smith et al. 2006). Interim name provided by the authors.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Del Oro, Bosque Aguirre, 620m, 11.00060, -85.43800.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ACG, Del Oro, Bosque Aguirre, 14 May 2002, Manuel Pereira. 2. 02-SRNP-14931, Achlyodes busirus, on Citrus sinensis. 3. DHJPAR0005259.

Paratypes.

9 ♀, 4 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0004054, DHJPAR0004060, DHJPAR0004064, DHJPAR 0004069, DHJPAR0004076, DHJPAR0004088, DHJPAR0005257, DHJPAR0005258, DHJPAR0005260, DHJPAR0005262, DHJPAR0005282, DHJPAR0012477, DHJPAR00012966.

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, dark, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. 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 in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.9-4.0 mm, rarely 4.0 mm or more. Fore wing length: 3.7-3.8 mm, rarely 3.9-4.0 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.3-2.5. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.6-2.8. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0-2.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine–like seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: with punctures near margins, central part mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 9 or 10. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.6-0.7. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 3.2-3.4. Mediotergite 1 shape: mostly parallel–sided for 0.5-0.7 of its length, then narrowing posteriorly so mediotergite anterior width>1.1 × posterior width. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.0-2.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0-5.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.2-1.3. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.0-2.2. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.4-1.6. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.7-0.8. Pterostigma length/width: 3.6 or more. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.

Male. Similar to female, but with legs having a darker coloration and mediotergite 2 being more trapezoidal.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 30, barcode compliant sequences: 18.

Biology/ecology.

Solitary (Fig. 278). Host: Hesperiidae , Achlyodes busirus .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Comments.

The 5 mm length cocoons are about usual for solitary species but about twice the length of the cocoons of gregarious species. This species is unique in its combination of broadly rectangular mediotergite 2 (its apical width 2.2 × or less than its median length), lateral face of scutellum with polished area 0.7 × face height, and thick ovipositor (as thick as or thicker than width of median flagellomerus, and with anterior width 3.0-5.0 × its posterior width beyond the constriction). The ovipositor thickness clearly separates this species from other groups with relatively broad mediotergite 2 (all of which have a thin ovipositor).

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Diego Torres in recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Ecoturismo.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Apanteles