Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus
Veijalainen, Anu
Broad, Gavin R.
Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.
Zootaxa
2014
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Veijalainen
Veijalainen
[151,527,1268,1294]
Insecta
Ichneumonidae
Orthocentrus
Animalia
Hymenoptera
12
213
Arthropoda
species
teres
sp. nov.
Male. Unknown.
Biology.Hosts unknown. Both specimens were collected in Peruvian Amazonian lowland rain forests.
Etymology.Named after the Latin for ‘polished’, with particular reference to the polished metasoma.
Comments.Compared to congeners, this is a distinctly dark and polished species; it can be separated from other species with antennae on a high shelf and glabrous eyes by the face not laterally distinctly flattened (unlike in O. anguillae, O. concrispus, O. pentagonum, and O. shieldsi), and the first tergite is polished and unsculptured (unlike in O. quercusand O. scurra).
Material examined. Holotypefemale: ‘ Peru, Loreto, Rio Sucusari, Rio Napo, Explornapo Camp, 3º15’S, 72º55’W, 100 m, 2 Jun 1992, hand coll./sweeping, T.L. Erwin, Lot#306’ ( BMNH). Paratype: 1 ♀, Peru, Madre de Dios, Pakitza, Rio Manu, BIOLAT Biol. Stat., 11º56’47’’S, 71º17’00’’W, 356 m, 6.X.1991, fogging, T.L. Erwin & M.G. Pogue, Lot#204 ( USNM).