Amputoearinus pitzi Lindsay and Sharkey

Lindsay, Cheryl & Sharkey, Michael, 2006, Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species, Zootaxa 1329, pp. 1-27 : 18

Amputoearinus pitzi Lindsay and Sharkey sp.n. ( Fig. 3 e)

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from all other species of Amputoearinus by the following characters; forewing banded from base yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate, foremargin yellow basally; projection of propleuron blunt.

Description: Holotype ♂

Body length: 7.4mm. Color: body yellow except melanic as follows: melanic patch posterior to eye; antenna, midtibia with melanic patch distally, hind coxa with melanic patch anterodistally, melanic patch distally and basally on hind tibia, terga distally; forewing banded from base, yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate; foremargin yellow basally (cf. Fig. 5 b). Head: antenna with unknown number of flagellomeres, left antenna broken after 17th flagellomere, right antenna broken after 6th flagellomere. Mesosoma: projection of propleuron blunt (cf. Fig. 6 f); median areola of mesosoma slightly depressed with carinae laterally and posteriorly (cf. Fig. 7 c); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (cf. Fig. 5 f); mesopleural suture with transverse carinae along its length; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae (cf. Fig.7 b); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, not extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf. Fig. 6 b); length of midtibial spur 0.5mm, length of midbasitarsomere 0.6mm; midtibia with 2 pegs at midlength, lacking pegs apically; hind tibia with 3 pegs apically; forewing length 6.2mm. Metasoma: median syntergite 2+3, length 1.3mm, width 1.0mm.

Female: Unknown

Etymology: in honor of Kevin Pitz.

Specimen examined: HOLOTYPE. ♂, BOLIVIA, Dpto. Santa Cruz, Estac. Experimental General Saavedra, [17°15’S 63°10’W], 9.vii.1972, C. Porter [and] L. Stange (head broken, placed on triangle, right hind leg broken after femur), (IMLA).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Lateral habiti. a) A. gloriae b) A. matamata c) A. niger d) A. pectusacutum e) A. pitzi f) A. planusfunditus.

FIGURE 5. Forewings: a) A. niger b) A. pectusacutum c) A. alafumidus. Propodeal sculpture: d) ♂ A. flavocacumen e) Ψ A. galbus f) Ψ A. gloriae g) Ψ A. matamata h) Ψ A. niger.

FIGURE 6. a) A. variegatus carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum b) A. galbus carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, not extending to anterior margin of pronotum c) A. boringi dorsal view showing presence of carina on scutellar sulcus d) A. pectusacutum dorsal view showing absence of carina on scutellar sulcus e) A. pectusacutum projection of propleuron acute f) A. flavocacumen projection of propleuron blunt.

FIGURE 7. a) Ψ A. galbus margin between metepimeron and metepisternum with transverse carinae b) Ψ A. sharanowskiae margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae c) Ψ A. gloriae dorsal view showing median areola of mesosoma depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly d) ♂ A. pectusacutum dorsal view showing median areola of mesosoma not depressed medially, lacking sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly.