Pseudapanteles ottonsolisi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex & Kula, Robert, 2014, Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 446, pp. 1-82 : 23

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudapanteles ottonsolisi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 136- 140

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. COSTA RICA, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sector Santa Rosa, Area Administrativa, 295m, 10.83764, -85.61871, 25.xii.2008. ACG database code: DHJPAR0031749.

Diagnosis.

It belongs to the annulicornis species-group, and can be separated from other species within that group based on head entirely yellow-orange, anteromesoscutum entirely orange, T2 mostly longitudinally striate, and mesopleuron, metapleuron, axillar complex, metascutellum and propodeum dark brown to black.

Description.

Female. Body length 2.6-2.7 mm. Fore wing length 2.8-2.9 mm. Head color: entirely yellow to orange. Flagellomere color: all flagellomere brown to black. Mesosoma color: mostly dark brown to black, with pronotum, propleura, anteromesoscutum, spot on mesopleura, and scutellar disc at least partially orange. Metasoma color (dorsally): mostly dark brown to black, with anterior 0.8 of mediotergite 1 and lateral areas on mediotergites 3-7 yellow-orange. Coxae color: pale/pale/mostly or completely dark. Metatibia color: mostly pale, with posterior 0.1-0.2 dark. Metatarsus color: dark. Pterostigma color: mostly dark, but with anterior pale spot. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin 2.1-2.5 ×. Mediotergite 1 maximum width/width at posterior margin 1.7-1.8 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 3.8-3.9 ×. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: Mostly with longitudinally striate sculpture (sometimes with small, smooth area centrally). Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.9 × as long as metatibia.

Male. Unknown.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 1, barcode compliant sequences: 1.

Biology/ecology.

Malaise-trapped.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG dry forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Sr. Otton Solis in recognition of his steadfast policy support of the ACG concept throughout two decades of Costa Rican political turmoil and the foundation of the party, PAC (Partido Accion Ciudadana), of Costa Rica’s President-elect Luis Guillermo Solis (no relative).