Messatoporus jalapa Kasparyan & Ruíz 2005, 2008

Santos, Bernardo F. & Aguiar, Alexandre P., 2013, <strong> Phylogeny and revision of <em> Messatoporus </ em> Cushman (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with descriptions of sixty five new species </ strong>, Zootaxa 3634 (1), pp. 1-284 : 130-132

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Messatoporus jalapa Kasparyan & Ruíz 2005 View in CoL

( Figs 14 View FIGURES 14–16. 14 , 79 View FIGURES 76–80 , 124 View FIGURES 124–129 , 195 View FIGURES 189–197 , 215 View FIGURES 213–217 , 248 View FIGURES 242–259 , 331 View FIGURES 329–336 )

* Messatoporus jalapa Kasparyan & Ruíz 2005: 107 View in CoL , 114. Description, distribution, keyed. Holotype ♀ (UATM, not examined). Type data: México, Veracruz, Jalapa , bosque, 26.X.1995, MMolina.

Messatoporus jalapa: Kasparyan & Ruíz 2008: 309 View in CoL , 312, 323–324. Description, distribution, figure, keyed.

Female. Fore wing 6.37 mm. HEAD: Mandible densely covered with long hairs; MLW 1.94; MWW 0.31; dorsal tooth in front view projected upwards, much longer than ventral tooth; ventral tooth triangular. MSM 0.34. Clypeus basally evenly convex, apically gradually flattened, centrally straight; CHW 2.42; CWW 1.61; apical area medially straight, laterally slightly projected, its margin regular, not raised. Antenna with 26 flagellomeres; flagellum uniform; apex of apical flagellomere about as wide as base, not distinctly tapered. Supra-antennal area shiny, with moderately dense punctation, not striate near antennal sockets, ventrally and around ocelli slightly concave, median line distingishable only as a weakly smoother area. Occipital carina uniformly curved, fading out at distance shorter than basal width of mandible from the hypostomal carina. Temple and gena moderately wide, gena regular (as in Fig. 260 View FIGURES 260–271. 260–261 ).

THORAX: Pronotum glabrate, shiny, scarcely punctate, ventrally with strong wrinkles; epomia weak, distinct only after diverging from pronotal collar, short, ending far from dorsal margin of pronotum, after diverging from pronotal collar approximately straight. Mesoscutum moderately convex, flattened posteriorly, ovoid, 1.25 × as long as wide, densely covered with short hairs, shiny, densely punctate; notaulus reaching about 0.76 of mesoscutum length, moderately impressed, surface over notaulus with weak and short transverse wrinkles; scuto-scutellar groove moderately deep, with distinct longitudinal wrinkles. Subalar ridge moderately projected; epicnemial carina complete, reaching subalar ridge, distinctly sinuous; sternaulus moderately strong, wider on posterior apex, weakly sinuous, with weak vertical wrinkles; scrobe moderately deep; mesopleural suture with strong longitudinal wrinkles along entire length. Mesosternum medially with short transverse wrinkles; median portion of posterior transverse carina of the mesothoracic venter short, distinctly arched forwards. Transverse sulcus at base of propodeum very wide, about 0.81 × as long as anterior area of propodeum, impunctate; metapleuron with very fine and moderately dense punctures, with vestigial wrinkles, moderately pilose; juxtacoxal carina represented by very short ridges. Fore tibia weakly swollen; hind coxa punctate-coriarious.

PROPODEUM: 1.26 × as long as wide, shiny, moderately pilose; anterior area scarcely punctate; spiracle elliptic, SWL 3.14; anterior transverse carina medially slightly arched forwards. Propodeal wrinkles anteriorly very close and moderately strong, posteriorly stronger and more widely spaced, mostly complete, anteriorly strongly curved, posteriorly somewhat irregular; posterior transverse carina distinct as very weak sublateral crests.

WINGS: Fore wing vein 1-Rs+M distinctly sinuous, with bulla placed on basal 0.4; crossvein 1m-cu more or less uniformly curved, limit between 1m-cu and 1-Rs+M more or less traceable; vein 1M+Rs anteriorly straight, posteriorly curved; fore wing crossvein 1 cu-a basad of 1M+Rs by 0.37 of its own length; vein 2Cua 0.67 × as long as crossvein 2cu-a; bulla of crossvein 2m-cu placed mostly on posterior half; cell 1+2Rs of moderate size, APH 0.85, pentagonal, distinctly higher than wide, AWH 0.82; crossvein 3r-m fully spectral, 2r-m and 3r-m distinctly convergent, about same length; vein 3-M distinctly shorter than 2-M; 4-Rs very weakly sinuous; 4-M semispectral, straight. Hind wing vein 1-M forming straight angle with vein Cua; vein 2-Rs tubular, apically spectral, reaching wing margin; HW1C 1.43; vein Cub distinctly convex on posterior half, forming distinctly obtuse angle with vein Cua (not curved); vein 2-1A reaching 0.83 of distance to posterior wing margin.

METASOMA: First tergite moderately long, about 0.41 × as long as T2–8, strongly depressed, ventrolaterally rounded, dorsally glabrate, laterally moderately pilose; T1LW 4.3; T1WW 1.7; spiracle on 0.48 of its length, distinctly prominent; median depression absent; median posterior depression absent; lateral depressions elongate, very shallow; ventrolateral carina absent, but traceable as limit between lateral and ventral portions. T2LW 1.38; T2WW 2.86; thyridium longer than wide, without small circular depression just behind it; T2–8 covered with small, shallow foveae, densely and uniformly pilose. OST 0.72; ovipositor slender, straight, basally cylindric, apically distinctly depressed; dorsal valve without ridges; ventral valve apex with 6 teeth, 1st, 2nd and 3th widely spaced; surface anterior to first tooth not rugulose.

Color. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black with pale yellow marks. Head: black; clypeus, mandible except apex, mouthparts, malar space, supra-clypeal area, scape ventrally and complete orbital band, bright yellow; (239,224,099); flagellum basally dark brown, blackish towards apex; f8–13 entirely white, f14 mostly white, f7 apically white. Mesosoma: black; pronotum bright yellow except posterior black mark; U-shaped mark over notaulus and small lateral mark at mesoscutum, scutellar carina, scutellum, tegula, subalar ridge, central mark covering almost all mesopleuron, mesosternum, dorsal division of metapleuron, metapleuron except small posterior mark and arc-shaped mark on propodeum, bright yellow; fore and mid coxa bright yellow with small apical blackish marks; fore and mid first trochanters bright yellow with dorsal brown marks; fore and mid femora pale orange, fore one dorsally with weak brown stripe on basal 0.8, mid one with very small basal mark; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi light yellow, darker apically, t5 blackish; hind coxa bright yellow, with three longitudinal black marks, anterior and posterior ones reaching apical 0.8, median one apically bifurcated and reaching apex of coxa; hind trochanters and femur bright yellow, first trochanter and femur with basal dark brown marks, second trochanter with apical brown mark; basal 0.05 of hind tibia orange, median 0.8 bright yellow, gradually turning to blackish on apical 0.15; basal 0.2 of t1 and t5, blackish; remainder of tarsus white. Metasoma: dark brown; anterior 0.4 and posterior 0.2 of T1, bright yellow; T2–8 with posterior bright yellow stripe; S2–6 bright yellow with small brownish lateral marks.

Male. Fore wing 4.87–8.50 mm long. Generally similar to female, except for the following: black mark on pronotum more extensive, covering about 0.6 of its surface; ventral 0.5 of epicnemium bright yellow; mid femur with weak dorsal brownish stripe on basal 0.8; anterior longitudinal marks at hind coxa extending only on basal 0.6; hind femur pale orange; T1 laterally dark brown until its base.

Variation. Fore wing 6.29–9.4 mm. Antenna with 25–27 flagellomeres; area over sternaulus variously marked with black; apical dark mark at fore coxa sometimes almost indistinct; hind coxa sometimes pale orange on apical 0.4; hind femur sometimes deep yellow, sometimes dorsally with apical blackish mark, basal and apical marks sometimes covering about 0.6 of dorsal face of femur, area between them sometimes brown; hind tibia on basal 0.05 sometimes blackish; basal 0.4 of t5 sometimes whitish; one male with apical 0.6 of hind tibia dark brown. Specimens from Honduras with hind femur apically black. One male from San Cristobal de las Casas with Ushaped mark over notaulus reduced to central subcircular spot and very short anterior longitudinal dash or spot. Yellow areas sometimes pale (233,216,136).

Comments. Very similar to M. mesonotator , from which it can be differentiated by the yellow mark on mesopleuron distinctly separated from yellow subalar ridge (vs. connected to yellow subalar ridge); T1 laterally entirely yellow (vs. black at anterior 0.8); ovipositor slender, dorsal valve without ridges (vs. moderately stout, dorsal valve with four weak ridges); ventral tooth of mandible distinct and triangular (vs. indistinct); and supraantennal area not striate near antennal sockets (vs. distinctly striate). Also somewhat similar to M. maculipes , from which it can be differentiated mainly by the yellow mark at mesoscutum U-shaped (vs. subcircular); anterior area of propodeum entirely black (vs. with lateral yellow marks); mesopleuron with black area between central mark and subalar ridge (vs. subalar ridge and central mark connected by yellow area); posterior transverse carina of propodeum distinct as weak sublateral crests (vs. entirely absent); and ovipositor slender, dorsal valve without ridges (vs. moderately stout, dorsal valve with five moderately strong ridges).

Biology. Specimens from Honduras were collected at shadowed coffee plantations.

Material examined. 14 ♀, 21 ♂♂. 1 ♀ from MEXICO, Chiapas, 3 km NE San Cristóbal de las Casas , 8.VI.1969 , BVPetersen; 1 ♀, same data except San Cristóbal de las Casas , 2195 m, 27.V.1969 ( AEIC) . 1 ♀, same data except Montebello National Park , 17.V.1969 , HJTeskey; 1 ♀, same data except 15–31.VII.1969 , Malaise trap, WRMMason. 1 ♀, same data except San Cristóbal de las Casas , 24.VI.1969 , WRMMason; 1 ♀, same data except 13.VI.1969 ; 1 ♂, same data except 2195 m, 18.V.1969 ; 1 ♂, same data except 2160 m, 29.VI.1969 , BVPeterson; 2 ♂♂, same data except 20.V.1969 , Malaise trap, WRMMason; 1 ♂, same data except 18.VIII.1969 ; 1 ♂, same data except 3–7.VI.1969 . 1 ♂ from MEXICO, Sinaloa, 20 mi. E Concordia , 12.VIII.1964 , WRMMason ( CNCI). 1 ♀ from HONDURAS, Francisco Morazan, San Antonio de Oriente, Cerro Uyuca, near cloud forest, 13–21.V.1990 , Malaise trap, RSeracin; 1 ♀, same data except 19–26.III.1990 ; 1 ♀, same data except 2–27.IV.1990 ; 1 ♀, same data except El Zamorano, coffee plantation under Inga sp. , 5–15.IV.1990 , Malaise trap; 2 ♂♂, same data except 29.III.–5.IV.1990 ; 2 ♂♂, same data except 23.II–2.III.1990 , RCave; 1 ♂, same data except 9–15.III.1990 ; 1 ♂, same data except 19–25.IV ; 1 ♂, same data except 15–22.II.1990 ; 2 ♂♂, same data except 15–22.III.1990 ; 1 ♂, same data except 2–8.II.1990 ; 1 ♂, same data except 9–14.II.1990 ; 1 ♂, same data except 8–14.VI.1991 . 1 ♂ from HONDURAS, El Paraíso, Yuscaran, Cerro Monserrat, 10–31.III.1993 ( FSCA) . 1 ♀, same data except 1800 m, 30.V.1994 , AHowden ( AEIC). 1 ♀ from COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Las Alturas, forest edge, Pt. 1, 1600 m, 10–13.VI.1998 , Brown & Berezovski ( AEIC) . 1 ♂ from COSTA RICA, San Juan , La Caja, JHSchmidt ( NHNW) . 2 ♀ from PANAMA, Chiriqui, 2 km W Cerro Punta , 1700 m, 19.V–8.VI.1977 , Peck & Howden ( CNCI) .

Distribution. Western Mexico to northern Panama ( Fig. 331 View FIGURES 329–336 ). Messatoporus jalapa seems to occur tipically in highlands. Where altitudinal data is available, they reach from 1600–2200 m. Many specimens without altitudinal data were collected in highland areas (“Cerros”).