Amputoearinus alafumidus Lindsay and Sharkey

Lindsay, Cheryl & Sharkey, Michael, 2006, Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species, Zootaxa 1329, pp. 1-27 : 7-8

Amputoearinus alafumidus Lindsay and Sharkey sp.n. ( Figs. 2 a, 5c)

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from all other species of Amputoearinus by the following character; forewing evenly infuscate with yellowish tinge.

Description: Holotype Ψ

Body length: 7.4mm. Color: body black except yellow as follows, palpi, fore and midtarsal spurs, most of foretarsus, basal portions of mid and hind tarsomeres, fore and midtibia at extreme base; orange as follows: ventral surface of propodeum, medial surface of hind coxa, hind femur except for extreme base, hind tibia except for extreme apex, metasoma; forewing evenly infuscate with a yellowish tinge ( Fig. 5 c). Head: antenna with unknown number of flagellomeres; left antenna broken after 40th flagellomere; right antenna broken after 39th flagellomere. Mesosoma: scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carina (cf. 6d); projection of propleuron blunt (cf. Fig. 6 f); median areola of mesosoma slightly depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (cf. Fig. 7 c); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (cf. Fig. 5 f); mesopleural suture with transverse carinae along its length; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum with 4 strong transverse carinae (cf. Fig. 7a ); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf. Fig.6a ); length of midtibial spur 0.6mm; length of midbasitarsomere 0.7mm; left midtibia lacking pegs; hind tibia with 2–4 pegs apically; forewing length 7.1mm. Metasoma: median syntergite 2+3 length 1.7mm, width 1.3mm.

Male: Unknown

Etymology: From the Latin ala meaning wing, and fumida for smoky, because of the entirely infuscate wings of this species.

Specimen examined: HOLOTYPE. Ψ, COSTA RICA, Province Punta[renas], San Luis, Monteverde, [10°18’N 84°49’W], 1000–1350m, FEB 1995, Z. Fuentes, L_N_ 250850 _449250 #4393, (right midtibia broken after coxa, right hind leg broken after first tarsomere), (INBio CR1002 165617).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Lateral habiti. a) A. alafumidus b) A. boringi. c) A. erudio d) A. fernandezi e) A. flavocacumen f) A. galbus.

FIGURE 5. Forewings: a) A. niger b) A. pectusacutum c) A. alafumidus. Propodeal sculpture: d) ♂ A. flavocacumen e) Ψ A. galbus f) Ψ A. gloriae g) Ψ A. matamata h) Ψ A. niger.

FIGURE 6. a) A. variegatus carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum b) A. galbus carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, not extending to anterior margin of pronotum c) A. boringi dorsal view showing presence of carina on scutellar sulcus d) A. pectusacutum dorsal view showing absence of carina on scutellar sulcus e) A. pectusacutum projection of propleuron acute f) A. flavocacumen projection of propleuron blunt.

FIGURE 7. a) Ψ A. galbus margin between metepimeron and metepisternum with transverse carinae b) Ψ A. sharanowskiae margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae c) Ψ A. gloriae dorsal view showing median areola of mesosoma depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly d) ♂ A. pectusacutum dorsal view showing median areola of mesosoma not depressed medially, lacking sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly.