Oroceguera andersoni Seltmann and Sharkey

Seltmann, Katja & Sharkey, Michael, 2007, A new genus and species of apterous Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Costa Rica, Zootaxa 1415, pp. 17-24 : 19

Oroceguera andersoni Seltmann and Sharkey , sp. n.

Holotype: Female, COSTA RICA. Guanacaste Providence, Guanacaste Conservation Area, Pitilla Field Station, 600m., Berlese leaf litter, low montane rain forest, 2.v.1995, R.S. Anderson. Deposited in the Hymenoptera Institute Collection, University of Kentucky.

Etymology: The species name is in honor of the collector, Robert S. Anderson.

Holotype Description: Body: length 1.27mm; generally ant-like in appearance. Color: head orange to brown; antenna orange-brown basally becoming light yellow apically; mesosoma dark orange to brown, carinae pronounced and darker brown than rest of mesosoma; legs light yellow; metasoma orange to brown basally becoming yellow-white apically; ovipositor pale yellow. Head: entirely smooth with sparse hairs on the face; eye small, malar space subequal to eye height; ocelli absent; antenna broken after the 10th flagellomere (7th on the other). Mesosoma: wingless; tegula absent; scutellum raised; propodeum subequal in length to mesonotum + metanotum, coriaceous-rugose. Legs: foretibia with single row of seven stout spines along anterior edge; dorsal surface of hind coxa rugose. Metasoma: first tergum with distinct irregular median and lateral longitudinal carinae and a basal transverse ridge that defines a concave area anteriorly, concave area fits into a bulge on propodeum; remainder of terga smooth, with few sparse setae; ovipositor about 0.4 times length of body.

Male: Unknown.