Colpoclypeus michoacanensis Sánchez & Figueroa, new species

(Fig. 1a –h)

FEMALE. Color: dark metallic blue green; eyes reddish brown; scape yellowish with dark area medially, pedicel brown dorsally, funicle and clava yellowish brown; wings hyaline, veins yellowish brown; legs yellowish with medial area (0.70 length) of femora dark; coxae dark metallic blue green, hind coxa yellowish ventrally; metasoma yellowish with a dark band dorsally.

Head: in frontal view subtriangular (Fig. 1a), head width/height =1.35–1.46; with striate sculpture and short setae on vertex, on frons adjacent to medial margin of compound eye, malar space, and clypeus; setae on compound eye shorter; malar suture present; malar space 0.72–0.85X as long as eye height; transverse sulcus present just ventral to anterior ocellus (Fig. 1b); antenna with scape, pedicel, two anelli, two funicle and three claval segments; antenna with pale, short setae and scape with longitudinal striae; scape length 5.00–6.25X its width; pedicel slightly shorter than, or equal in length to 1st funicular segment; funiculars and club moderately setose and with many longitudinal sensilla; 1st funicular segment slightly longer than 2nd; combined length of 1st and 2nd funicular segments similar to clava length. Clypeus bilobed (Fig. 1a).

Mesosoma: mesosoma 2.0X as long as high, and 1.00–1.24X as long as gaster (Fig. 1c); pronotum with reticulate sculpture and with some long setae along posterior margin; notauli incomplete; mesonotum sculptured (Fig. 1d) as pronotum with some sparse setae; scutellum without submedian grooves, with two pairs of setae; mesopleural suture almost straight (Fig. 1e); transepimeral sulcus present and distinct; upper mesepimeron smooth, lower mesepimeron slightly sculptured; supracoxal flange absent; dorsellum large, strongly sculptured, crenulate/multidentate; propodeum smooth, polished, with strong median carina and plicae (Fig. 1f); propodeal callus with 12 long and thin setae. Forewing: costal cell with a ventral line of 12 setae extending from base to apex; postmarginal vein 0.77–0.83X as long as stigmal vein; stigma slightly swollen; marginal fringe as long as width of costal cell at widest point; length: 1.36–1.92 mm. Legs: length of fore femur 4– 5 X its width; hind leg with femur, tibia and basitarsus length/width =4.30–5.00, 9.14–13.4 and 3.33–4.80X, respectively.

Metasoma: gaster with some sparse setae laterally, petiole transverse, barely visible in dorsal view; ovipositor 0.38–0.64X as long as hind tibia (Fig. 1c); ovipositor in some specimens with a black spot basally and with some sparse setae in apical half.

Body length: 1.53–2.01 mm.

MALE. Sexual dimorphism evident; male smaller than female, body length 1.11–1.66 mm; fore femur very swollen, only 2X as long as wide (Fig. 1 g), tarsomeres of fore leg shorter than female; basal 3 tarsomeres wider than long or quadrate; arolia large; head higher than female, head width/height = 1.08–1.25; funicle with three and clava with two segments. Genitalia (Fig. 1 h) with subgenital plate exposed; aedeagus elongate, bifid; digitus with 4 or 5 apical teeth and one basal tooth; with pyramidal-shaped, raised intervolsellar process.

Host. Argyrotaenia montezumae Walsingham ( Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).

Type material. Holotype Ψ, MÉXICO, Michoacán. Los Reyes, Rancho Santino, 19°39’079’’ N and 102°28’695’’ W, 1409 msnm, 13-X-2009, I. López C., Host: Argyrotaenia montezumae on Rubus sp. (blackberry) (IIAF). 49 Ψ, 16ɗ Paratypes: MÉXICO, Michoacán: 24 Ψ, 11 ɗ, same data as holotype (18Ψ, 16ɗ: IIAF; 2 Ψ, 1ɗ each: ANIC, CIIDIR-IPN, USNM); 10 Ψ, 4 ɗ same data as holotype but 11-XI-2009 (IIAF); 4 Ψ, 1 ɗ same data as holotype but 21-XI-2009 (IIAF); 11 Ψ Tangancicuaro, 2-X-2007, I. López C., Host: Argyrotaenia montezumae on Rubus sp. (blackberry) (IIAF).

Etymology. This species is so named because it is from Mexican state of Michoacán.

Distribution. MÉXICO (Michoacán).

Remarks. This species is similar to C. florus . The two species are distinguished by the following key.