Prasmodon zlotnicki Valerio & Rodriguez, 2005

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Braet, Yves, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2014, Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 37, pp. 1-52 : 39-40

Prasmodon zlotnicki Valerio & Rodriguez, 2005 Figs 94 , 102

Prasmodon zlotnicki Valerio & Rodriguez, 2005: 31.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA: ACG, Alajuela Province, Sector San Cristobal, Sendero Corredor, 620 m, 10.87868, -85.38963. In the holotype description, the province was erroneously given as Guanacaste Province.

Holotype.

♀, INBio (examined).

Material examined.

8 ♀, 1 ♂ (CNC, INBio, NMNH).

Description.

Female. Body length 4.5-4.6 mm. Fore wing length 5.1-5.2 mm or 5.3-5.4 mm. Body color: meso- and metasoma with brown to black areas, those on metasoma only thin brown areas centrally on tergites 4-8 ( Fig. 94 ). Scape color: partially dark brown to black. Flagellomeres color: most flagellomeres brown to black, except for small apical area (F15-16, and occasionally apical half of F14) which is yellow-brown ( Fig. 94 ). Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex partially dark/partialy pale. Mesotibia color: posterior 0.1-0.2 dark brown to black. Metatibia color: posterior 0.1-0.3 dark brown to black ( Fig. 94 ). Metatibia spurs color: dark brown to black ( Fig. 94 ). Metatarsus color: dark brown to black (except for anterior 0.7 or less of first metatarsomere). Fore wing color pattern: uniformly and entirely infumate (except for small hyaline area near veins (RS+M)b and 2M). Fore wing veins color: all veins dark brown. Pterostigma color: entirely dark brown. Hypostomal carina: highly raised. Scutoscutellar sulcus: with 6 impressions. Areolet height÷vein r length (fore wing): 0.2 ×. Hind wing subbasal cell: mostly without setae. Hind tarsal claws: with pectination (teeth) very irregular in spacing and length. Shape of mediotergite 1: distinctly narrow ing posteriorly, width at posterior margin clearly less than width at anterior margin and median width ( Fig. 94 ). Mediotergite 1 length÷width at posterior margin 4.6-5.0 x, 5.1-5.5 x, rarely 3.6-4.0 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin÷length: 3.1-3.5 × or 3.6-4.0 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.5 × as long as metatibia.

Male. One male, the first found for the species. It is morphologically similar to females.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 11, barcode compliant sequences: 11 ( Fig. 105 ).

Biology and ecology.

Hosts: Crambidae , Ategumia lotanalis DHJ07, Desmia ploralisDHJ01, Desmia Janzen07, Desmia Solis19 Diacme biolep02, Herpetogramma Solis10, Herpetogramma Solis11, Phostria Janzen05.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG rain forest ( Valerio et al. 2005).

Figures

Figure 105. Neighbor-Joining tree (Saitou and Nei 1987) based on distances computed using the Kimura 2 - parameter method (Kimura 1980) of all Prasmodon sequences from the ACG. Tree tips are labeled with species name | specimen accession | host information | sequence length and ambiguities | type status.

Figure 94 - 95. 94 Prasmodon zlotnicki. Body, dorsal view 95 Prasmodon eminens. Body, dorsal view.

Figure 102 - 103. 102 Cocoon of Prasmodon zlotnicki 103 Cocoon of Prasmodon johnbrowni.