Baeus itatiaiaensis Araujo & Vivallo

Araujo, Rodrigo De Oliveira, Vivallo, Felipe & Araujo, Cristina De Oliveira, 2013, Five new species of Baeus Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelioninae) from Brazil with an updated key to Neotropical species, Zootaxa 3670 (1) : -

Baeus itatiaiaensis Araujo & Vivallo new species

( Figs. 4–6 )

Diagnosis. This species has a more elongated body than most Neotropical species of Baeus and the most similar to B. cyclosae Margaría & Loiácono, 2006 , sharing the body coloration and A1 longer than sum of A2–A6; and differs from it by the metasoma wider than the head, eyes in the upper half of head and by the club without traces of sutures marking separation lines between clavomeres.

Distal edge of the clypeus rounded. Male: Unknown.

Description. Holotype female: Body length: 0.87 mm.

Body light yellow, including all appendages. Head 1.19 times as wide as high (frontal view) and 1.24 times as wide as mesosoma (dorsal view).

Eyes on upper half of head ( Fig. 4 ): head 1.74 times as long as malar space (lateral view). Distal edge of the clypeus rounded. Interorbital distance 1.5 times larger than the width of the eye. POD 16.75 times longer than OOD. A1 1.17 times longer than the sum of A2–A6. A2 2.08 times longer than wide. Antennal club compacted, without traces of sutures, 2.51 times as long as wide and 1.37 times longer than sum of A2–A6.

Mesoscutum transverse, 1.74 times as wide as long.

Metasoma 1.03 times as wide as head and 1.28 times as wide as the mesosoma (dorsal view). T2 2.16 times as wide as long, being the largest tergite of the metasoma. Distal margin of T7 triangular.

Male: Unknown

Type material. Holotype female: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Parque Nacional de Itatiaia, 18.XII.2011, 1600 m., Araujo, C. coll., Pitfall (MNRJ).

Etymology. The specific name of this new species refers its type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 4 – 6. Baeus itatiaiaensis new species (Holotype female). 4: Frontal view. 5: Dorsal View. 6: Lateral view. Scale bar fig. 4: 0.500 mm, figs. 5 – 6: 0.200 mm.