Orasema llika Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018

Burks, Roger A., Heraty, John M., Dominguez, Chrysalyn & Mottern, Jason L., 2018, Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae), Zootaxa 4401 (1), pp. 1-107 : 59-60

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4401.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CE7364CD-1A9E-45F2-ABA1-FB574F03BCBE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966311

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5F94B0D3-286E-4EF7-8289-5449003B3103

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:5F94B0D3-286E-4EF7-8289-5449003B3103

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Orasema llika Burks, Heraty & Dominguez
status

sp. nov.

Orasema llika Burks, Heraty & Dominguez n. sp.

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5F94B0D3-286E-4EF7-8289-5449003B3103 ( Figs 123–130 View FIGURES 123–128 View FIGURES 129–130 )

Diagnosis. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate-reticulate. Mesoscutal sidelobe with transverse carinae ( Fig. 126 View FIGURES 123–128 ). Axilla with oblique carinae. Mesoscutellar disc with longitudinal carinae ( Figs 126, 127 View FIGURES 123–128 ). Axillula with parallel longitudinal carinae and no other sculpture ( Fig. 127 View FIGURES 123–128 ).

Description. Female. Length 2.2–2.9 mm.

Color: Head and mesosoma blue to green, with yellow luster on the mesoscutal midlobe, axilla, and mesoscutellum. Pedicel yellow to yellowish-brown; anellus yellow to yellowish-brown; flagellum pale brown. Coxae brown dorsally, becoming yellow apically; fore femur brown; mid and hind femora yellow. Fore wing hyaline; venation pale brown. Petiole blue-green; gaster brown, acrosternite dark brown to black.

Head: Head width:head height 1.1–1.2; face reticulate; longitudinal groove between eye and torulus present or absent; eyes bare, inter-ocular distance:eye height 1.3–1.4; malar space:eye height 0.6–0.7; supraclypeal area longer than broad, smooth; clypeus smooth. Flagellum length:head height 1.5–1.7; F2 2.7–2.9× as long as broad, 1.0–1.2× as long as F3; following funiculars subequal in width, progressively shorter in larger specimens, progressively shorter and broader in smaller specimens.

Mesosoma: Mesosoma length:height 1.4. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate-reticulate, with minute setae; lateral lobe areolate-reticulate anteriorly, with transverse carinae posteriorly. Axilla areolate-reticulate with oblique carinae; mesoscutellar disc areolate with longitudinal carinae laterally; frenal line irregularly foveate; frenum areolate-reticulate; axillular groove anteriorly absent, broad and foveate posteriorly; axillula with parallel longitudinal carinae. Propodeum with median carina; propodeal disc areolate to areolate-reticulate; callus areolatereticulate, with 3–5 setae. Mesepisternum areolate-reticulate laterally, smooth ventrally, broadly rounded anterior to mid coxa. Upper mesepimeron smooth; lower mesepimeron reticulate to areolate-reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum laterally smooth dorsally, reticulate ventrally. Hind coxa 2.1–2.7× as long as broad; hind femur 5.6–6.4× as long as broad. Fore wing 2.7–2.9× as long as broad, 2.8× as long as mesothorax; stigma with 4 sensilla separated into pairs. Hind wing costal cell with a broad bare area.

Metasoma: Petiole 2.3–2.5× as long as broad, 2.3–2.5× as long as hind coxa, areolate to areolate-reticulate, anterior carina moderate. Antecostal sulcus crossed by minute carinae; acrosternite posteriorly angulate.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Trinidad.

Material examined. Holotype: TRINIDAD: Arima: Simla Research Station , along ridge, 250m, 10°41'34"N, 61°17'23"W, 21–22.vii.2013, C. Weirauch, yellow pan trap [1 ♀, UCRCENT00446765 ], deposited in UCRC GoogleMaps . Paratypes: TRINIDAD: Arima Ward, Simla (N.Y. Zool. Soc. Sta. ), 10°41'49"N, 61°17'06"W, 11.vi.1977, E. E. Grissell, low vegetation, sweep [1 ♀, FSCA: UCRCENT00411916 ] GoogleMaps . Arima: Simla Research Station , along ridge, 250m, 10°41'34"N, 61°17'23"W, 21–22.vii.2013, C. Weirauch, yellow pan trap [2 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00446769–70 ] GoogleMaps . Simla Res.St. , 250m, 10°41'36"N, 61°17'17"W, 25–26.vii.2013, Weirauch, nr bat house, YPT [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00333838 ] GoogleMaps . v.2004 [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00446768].

Etymology. The Quechua word for “network,” referring to the pattern of mesosomal carinae.

UCRC

University of California, Riverside

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eucharitidae

Genus

Orasema

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