Triraphis areatus (Enderlein) Enderlein, 2015

Valerio, Alejandro A. & Shaw, Scott R., 2015, Thirteen new Costa Rican species belonging to the genus Triraphis Ruthe (Braconidae: Rogadinae) with their host records, Zootaxa 3904 (4), pp. 501-540 : 504-505

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.4.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105549

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Triraphis areatus (Enderlein)
status

comb. nov.

Triraphis areatus (Enderlein) , comb. n.

Rhogas areatus Enderlein, 1918 . Rogas areatus Dalla Torre, 1898 View in CoL .

Description. Female. Body color: yellow, with antenna yellow and distal edge of flagellomeres darker; telotarsus brownish yellow as tarsal claws. Fore wing: C+SC+R, M+CU distal 1/3, 11 – A, 1M (except anterior tip) and RS+Ma (except distal tip) brownish yellow, remainder yellow; hind wing: veins yellow. Wings hyaline. Body length = 5.42 mm; fore wing length = 4.80 mm.

Head: Width of oral opening/height of oral opening = 2.0. Antenna, flagellomere all longer than wide, base of toruli with few rugose sculpturing present; malar space slightly wider than basal width of mandible; occipital carina effaced dorsally, not fused with hypostomal carina, clearly separated; median ocellus as big as lateral ocellus; space between lateral ocellus black; ocell-ocular distance almost as lateral ocellus width.

Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma in dorsal view/width of mesosoma = 2.66; height of mesosoma = 1.14 mm; propleuron dorso-lateral area with defined colliculate sculpturing present basally; notauli punctate, defined medially; medial longitudinal pit present, nitid without longitudinal punctate sculpturing; mesonotum distal 1/4 with less defined colliculate sculpturing present medially, remainder nitid; sternauli with spaced striate sculpturing as union with prepectal carina, area below with confused colliculate sculpturing; mesopleuron dorso-lateral area with finely colliculate and little rugose sculpturing; mesepimeron ventral area with less defined colliculate sculpturing; metapleuron granulate, ventral area without rugose sculpturing; propodeum, spiracles sub – oval; first lateral areas of propodeum without areolate – rugulose, fine granulate sculpturing present, remainder with spaced areolate-rugulose and less defined colliculate sculpturing; medial carina 1/4 propodeum length; areola with irregular sub-triangular shape; ventral tubercles present without carinae and densely granulate.

Legs: basal lobe at hind tarsal claw broad, short and rounded at tip.

Wings: fore wing: 3RSa/lRS = 4.30; r = 0.24 mm. hind wing: lM/r – m = 1.90; m+cu before 2RS; 2RS straight; angle at union 2RS – 2M acute; pterostigma yellow.

Metasoma: Length of first metasomal tergum/width of first metasomal tergum = 1.14; length of second metasomal tergum/width of second metasomal tergum = 0.71; length of third metasomal tergum/width of third metasomal tergum = 0.40; anterior width of first tergum = 0.39 mm; hypopygium =?; Anterior–triangular area of first metasomal tergum open with carinae present, medial carina normal; first metasomal tergum lineate sculpturing as second metasomal tergum sculpturing; third metasomal tergum lineate sculpturing finer, closer and less conspicuous than second metasomal tergum sculpturing, not reaching distal 1/3; fourth metasomal tergum without fine lineate sculpturing

Type specimen examined. HNHM, female type collected at Belize ( British Honduras), Matanae.

Material collected in Costa Rica. One female; San José, Ciudad Colón, 800 m. xii/1989 – i/1990, Col. L. Fournier.

Distribution. The altitudinal range of this species is mid-elevations (800 m).

Comments. Type specimen with antennae broken; measurement of hypopygium length was impossible because of the way that the specimen was mounted. The Costa Rican specimen was collected at tropical premontane wet/rain forest.

The type specimen was assessed as a new combination within the genus Triraphis according to the label placed by van Achterberg in 1997; with the present publication we formally recognized and officialize the new combination proposed by him.

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Triraphis

Loc

Triraphis areatus (Enderlein)

Valerio, Alejandro A. & Shaw, Scott R. 2015
2015
Loc

Rhogas areatus

Enderlein 1918
1918
Loc

Rogas areatus

Dalla Torre 1898
1898
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