Nanium mairenai Gauld, 1997

Reshchikov, Alexey, Sääksjärvi, Ilari E. & Pollet, Marc, 2018, Review of the New World genus Nanium Townes, 1967 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ctenopelmatinae), with two new species from the Neotropical region, European Journal of Taxonomy 459, pp. 1-18 : 14-16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.459

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F198F1E-A4F6-457E-9E03-667D709C35DD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5964949

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E387CE-FFEE-CB79-F763-F8FCFE11FD28

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Plazi

scientific name

Nanium mairenai Gauld, 1997
status

 

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Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from all its congeners by the combination of the following characters: face at most about as broad as high, entirely yellow, pleural carina lacking, T1 slender (2.8–3.0 × as long as broad posteriorly); hind coxa, trochanter, femur and distal end of tibia black, trochantellus yellowish.

Remark

The type material was not examined.

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Nanium medianum Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:4FF453E7-AD7F-4964-A5A4-CF0B4D481048

Figs 5 View Fig. 5 , 8A–C View Fig. 8

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from all its congeners by a combination of the following characters: face distinctly broader than high ( Fig. 5A View Fig. 5 ), mesosoma with yellow stripes on mesoscutum anteriorly ( Fig. 5C View Fig. 5 ), metasoma with all tergites extensively pale medially ( Figs 5B–C View Fig. 5 ).

Etymology

The name of the species refers to the characteristic coloration of the metasoma.

Material examined

Holotype ECUADOR: 1 ♀, Podocarpus Parque Nacional, Cajanuma , trail Bosque Nublado (sampling site PR, Fig. 8B View Fig. 8 ), MT, 2750 m a.s.l., 16 Feb.–5 Mar. 2009, Marc Pollet and Anja De Braekeleer leg., sample code EC/2009-37/MP&ADB-013 (RBINS) .

Paratype ECUADOR: 1 ♀, Podocarpus Parque Nacional, Cajanuma , trail Oso de Anteojos (sampling site S2 (YPT06-10), Fig. 8C View Fig. 8 ), 2750 m a.s.l., 27 Feb.–5 Mar. 2009, YPT, Marc Pollet and Anja De Braekeleer leg., sample code EC/2009-37/MP&ADB-012 (RBINS).

Description

SEX. Female ( Fig. 5 View Fig. 5 ).

BODY LENGTH. 4.7 mm.

HEAD. Antennal flagellum with 25 segments. Scape 1.6 × as long as wide. Head narrowed behind eyes, matte, roundish. Maximum length of temple 0.9 × transverse eye diameter, minimum length 0.6 × transverse eye diameter. Face width 1.1 × height of eye ( Fig. 5A View Fig. 5 ). Face convex, bulging, with granulate sculpture. Clypeus separated from face by impression; clypeal apex strongly projecting anteriorly; apical margin of clypeus moderately obtuse, without shallow notch; clypeal foveae small. Malar space nearly as wide as basal mandible width. Mandible teeth of equal length and width.

MESOSOMA. Mesosoma granulate, matte, impunctate, bearing scattered pale setae ( Fig. 5C View Fig. 5 ). Notaulus absent. Epicnemial carina high, distinctly defined, reaching pronotum. Mesopleuron matte, impunctate. Tarsal claws basally pectinate with small teeth. Fore wing without areolet; R intercepting pterostigma immediately behind its middle; 2 m-cu with a single bulla; cu-a postfurcal. Hind wing with Cu 1& cu-a intercepted below middle; Cu 1 straight, not reaching edge of hind wing. Propodeal and pleural carinae absent ( Fig. 5C View Fig. 5 ).

METASOMA. Metasoma cylindrical, rather shining, granulate, impunctate, with isolated setae ( Fig. 5B View Fig. 5 ). T1 1.5 × as long as wide apically, with shallow median longitudinal impression, and bordered by lateral longitudinal carinae. Hind margin of first metasomal sternite at level of spiracles. T2 transverse. Thyridia absent. Hypopygium triangular in profile. Ovipositor sheath slender, 0.7 × as long as metasomal height.

COLOR. Body mostly dark-brown ( Fig. 5 View Fig. 5 ). Clypeus, anterior lateral edges of mesonotum, fore and middle legs, hind coxa and femur ventrally, and medial part of metasomal tergites all yellowish-brown ( Fig. 5B View Fig. 5 ). Mandible yellow with brown apex. Palpus yellow ( Fig. 5C View Fig. 5 ).

Distribution

Ecuador (Loja province).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Nanium

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