Tarasco granulata Barbalho & Penteado­Dias, 2004

Barbalho, Sandra M., Scatolini, Denise & Penteado- Dias, Angélica M., 2004, Redefinition of genus Tarasco Marsh (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) and description of two new Brazilian species, Zootaxa 411 (1), pp. 1-6 : 4

Tarasco granulata Barbalho & Penteado­Dias , new species

( Figs 1–3 )

Female. Color. Head yellow, ocelli black, compound eyes black reflecting green color at light, mandibles yellow with black tips, antenna yellowish brown on basal 2/3 and pale yellow on apical third; palpi pale yellow; mesosoma, first, second and third metasomal terga honey yellow, remaining terga brown; venter of metasoma yellow to light brown; ovipositor and its sheaths light brown with dark tips; legs yellow; wings infuscated, fore wing banded; stigma brown on apical 2/3 and pale yellow on basal third; veins light brown, tegula honey yellow. Body length: 3.0 mm. Head. Face swollen and granulate; vertex transversely striate; frons weakly granulate; malar space slightly striate; face width 1.5x eye width; face height about equal to eye height; length of malar space about equal to oral opening and 1/2 compound eye height; distance between two lateral ocelli equal to their diameters; ocellocular distance 4.0x the diameter of lateral ocellus; 23 antennomeres; first flagellomere about equal in length with scape+pedicel. Mesosoma: prothorax laterally and mesopleuron costate; mesonotum strongly declivous anteriorly;mesoscutum granulate; notauli scrobiculate and meeting before scutellum in a striate area; scutellum granulate; sternaulus shallow and granulate; propodeum granulate­rugose on basal 2/3 and areolate­rugose on apical third ( Fig. 2 ); legs granulate; hind coxa granulate with a short basal tubercle; hind femur swollen, 3.75 as long as wide. Wings ( Fig. 1 ): fore wing vein rm present,but not tubular, vein m­cu arising intertitial with vein 2RS; vein r as long as 3RS; hind wing vein SC+R present and tubular and RS, M and m­cu vein present, but spectral. Metasoma: first tergum granulate and finely striate, long and narrow, parallel sided until apex where is suddenly broads ( Fig. 3 ); second and third terga mainly granulate, line between them weak or absent; remaining terga smooth and shinning ( Fig. 3 ). Ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype female. BRAZIL. Para, Jacareacanga, October, 1959. Deposited in MPEG.

Biology. Unknown.

Etymology. The name of the species refers to the sculpture on most of the body.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. 1–3: Tarasco granulata sp nov.: 1, wings; 2, propodeum; 3, metasoma. 4–6: T. costata sp nov., 4, part of mesosoma; 5, propodeum; 6, wings.