Parapanteles noae Valerio and Whitfield

Valerio, A. A., Whitfield, J. B. & Janzen, D. H., 2009, Review of world Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with description of fourteen new Neotropical species and the first description of the final instar larvae, Zootaxa 2084 (1), pp. 1-49 : 32-33

Parapanteles noae Valerio and Whitfield , n. sp.

Figs. 7C , 8D , 12F

Female. Body length = 2.10 mm.

Body color: Fore and mid leg with trochanters, femur and tibia yellow and hind trochanters, anterior tip of femur and tibial basal 1/3, ovipositor, basal ½ of each metasomal pleura, ocelli; tarsomeres brownish yellow as palpi and tegula; compound eyes silver; remainder of body dark brown. Wings hyaline, forewing with pterostigma yellowish and remainder of veins except C+SC+R brownish yellow; hind wing veins yellowish except R1 light brownish yellow.

Head. Head height/width = 1.26; compound eye height/width = 1.55; intertentorial pit distance = 0.16 mm; tentorial pit distance/distance tentorial pit to compound eye = 3.25; width of face at dorsal clypeal edge = 0.30 mm; clypeus width/height = 2.33; vertex width/distance between anterior ocelli and edge of torulus = 2.15; length of first flagellomere = 0.21 mm; first flagellomere length/width = 2.83; length of first flagellomere/length of second flagellomere = 1.06; length of first flagellomere/length of third flagellomere = 1.06; terminal flagellomere length = 0.11 mm; terminal flagellomere length/penultimate flagellomere length = 1.28; terminal flagellomere length/width = 2.25; malar space height/basal width of mandible = 1.00; ocellocular distance/lateral ocelli distance = 1.67. Face and clypeus covered by dense and fine punctate sculpture, upper face with a triangular shaped raise area which is less punctate than remainder of facial areas; frons scrobal areas nitid and shallow, lateral areas with fine and small punctate sculpture and vertex and distal area of frons; gena, temple and junction area between gena and postgena basal 2/3 with dense and fine punctate sculpture; postgena ventral 1/3 with few big punctate sculpture, remainder nitid; ocular ring nitid.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma length = 0.93 mm; mesosoma length/width = 1.28; mesosoma height = 0.60 mm. Propleuron with small punctulate sculpture except lateral upper area nitid and basal 1/2 of propleuron; pronotum lateral area with basal 1/3 nitid and lateral grooves, lateral grooves narrow and well impressed, area between lateral grooves nitid, dorsal edge and ventral edge 1/5 of distal edge height; mesonotum with dense fine punctate sculpture which becomes bigger and less defined and less dense towards scutellar groove, not reaching it; scutellar groove with 9 small but well defined costulae, groove well defined and deeply impressed; scutellum with few well defined and deeply impressed punctate sculpture at lateral areas of anterior 1/5, remainder with confused and shallow punctate sculpture except medial area practically nitid, lateral areas with narrow and dense transversal ridges which become more spaced towards posterior edge; axilla through mesonotum with narrow and dense transversal bridges which crossed its width, edge of lunulae well defined but sculpture next to it less defined than remainder; metanotum very narrow and rectangular in shape, middistal area with two big costulae on it; axilla through metanotum deeply impressed and with three transversal narrow ridges across its width, remainder of areas nitid; propodeum with areola, transversal carinae and costulae well defined and cristate, remainder of areas nitid except inside areola with few smooth sinuate sculpture and spiracular area with few smooth short ridges; mesopleuron with anterior edge with punctate sculpture, dorsal edge small, well defined scrobiculate sculpture, remainder of area nitid, sternaulus as a short longitudinal shallow depression; metapleuron with medial pit present, dorsal edge with short and poorly defined transversal ridges, distal edge with few of this ridges too, remainder of area with confused shallow punctate sculpture.

Legs. Hind femur length = 0.6 mm; hind femur length/width = 3.42; hind tibia length/hind femur length = 1.27. Fore telotarsus with a long narrow hooklike seta at internolateral area of it, but normal in shape; telotarsus shorter in length than basitarsus; hind telotarsus with a set of elongated and conspicuous setae at internal lateral area.

Wings. Forewing length = 2.55 mm; 1RS length = 0.08 mm; 1CUa length/1CUb length = 0.82; length RS+Ma = 0.40 mm; length M+CU = 0.85 mm; 1M length/ m-cu length = 2.28; pterostigma length/height = 1.69. Hind wing: 1M length = 0.38 mm; 1M length/2M length = 1.50; 1M length/M+CU length = 1.15; length r-m/length cu-a = 0.86; 1RSa length/2r-m = 2.17; 1A length = 0.25 mm.

Metasoma. First tergum basal width = 0.20 mm; first tergum length/distal width = 1.44; second tergum length/distal width = 0.45; third tergum length/distal width = 0.39; hypopygium length = 0.48 mm. First metasomal tergum with anterior 1/2 nitid, medial area with a transversal narrow ridge across its width and with two semi-curve carinae towards anterior edge of tergum, posterior tergum 1/2 with longitudinal sinuate lineate sculpture mixed with confused and small colliculate sculpture, medial area of posterior 1/2 shallowly depressed; second tergum with fine and dense longitudinal lineate sculpture which is thicker and evident on distal 1/2 of tergum, confused fine colliculate sculpture present throughout its length; remainder of terga nitid; ovipositor sheaths narrow and elongated with set of long and sparse setae over most of distal 1/3; ovipositor relatively narrow.

Material examined. Holotype, female, “ Costa Rica, Puntarenas, A.C. Arenal, R.[eserva] B.[iológica] Monteverde, Estación La Casona , 152 m, Dic. 1993, [Col.] N.G. Obando, LN 253250_449700, #2605”

Material deposited at INBio.

Comments. This is the only known species which exhibits elongate and thin hooklike setae on the medioventralarea of the fore telotarsus, in combination with a very clean and simple propodeal sculpture and carination.

Etymology. Gender, feminine. This species is dedicated to Sandy “Dr.” No

Figures

FIGURE 7. Propodeum of Parapanteles lincolnii n. sp. (A), P. polus n. sp. (B), P. noae n. sp. (C), P.thrix n. sp. (D), P. paradoxus (Muesebeck) (E) and P. rarus n. sp. (F).

FIGURES 8. First metasomal tergum in dorsal view for Parapanteles thrix n. sp. (A), P. rarus n. sp. (B), P. scotti n. sp. (C), P. noae n. sp. (D), P.tessares n. sp. (E), and P.polus n. sp. (F).

FIGURE 12. Wing venation of Parapanteles polus n. sp. (A), P. mariae n. sp. (B), P.thrix n. sp. (C), P. continua n. sp. (D), P. paradoxus (Muesebeck) (E), and P. noae n. sp. (F).