Pseudapanteles oscarariasi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex & Kula, Robert, 2014, Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 446, pp. 1-82 : 22-23

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudapanteles oscarariasi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 131- 135

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. COSTA RICA, ACG, Alajuela Province, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Sendero Albergue Crater, 980m, 10.84886, -85.3281, 16.v.2010. ACG database code: DHJPAR0040498.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, 2 ♂ (CNC). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0039450, DHJPAR0043037, 10-SRNP-2415.

Diagnosis.

It belongs to the gouleti species-group, and can be separated from other species within that group based on pronotal collar yellow-orange, anteromesoscutum entirely orange-yellow, metasomal tergites entirely dark brown to black, and shape of T1.

Description.

Female. Body length 2.6-2.7 mm. Fore wing length 2.8-2.9 mm. Mesosoma color: mostly dark brown to black, with pronotum, propleura, anteromesoscutum, spot on mesopleura, and scutellar disc at least partially orange. Metasoma color (dorsally): mostly dark brown to black, except for yellow-orange anterior 0.4-0.6 of mediotergite 1. Coxae color: pale/pale/mostly or completely dark. Pterostigma color: entirely dark. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin 2.1-2.5 ×. Mediotergite 1 maximum width/width at posterior margin 1.3-1.4 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.5-2.6 ×. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: Mostly with longitudinally striate sculpture (sometimes with small, smooth area centrally).

Male. Much darker coloration than female, especially on mesosoma and metasoma.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 5, barcode compliant sequences: 5.

Biology/ecology.

Hosts: Elachistidae : Antaeotricha sp. with interim name Janzen888, and two other confamilials.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG cloud forest and rain forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of former President Oscar Arias who, upon listening to Margarita Penon’s summary of the ACG concept in 1986, set ACG survival policy in motion with "Sounds good to me if it doesn’t cost Costa Rica anything"; it hasn’t.