Pristaulacus stangei SMITH, 2008

Smith, David R., 2008, Aulacidae of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Hymenoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2), pp. 267-355 : 323-324

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.267-355

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:959C00C8-C510-47C0-9ABB-0D8712B3E6BD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458617

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/906C87C3-FFD8-672E-FEF9-45B4ED8765AE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pristaulacus stangei SMITH
status

sp. nov.

Pristaulacus stangei SMITH , new species

( Figs 115-119 View Figs 115-119 )

Diagnosis:

All orange; antenna with white band. Forewing black with paler to hyaline spot at center of anterior margin just basal to stigma; costa and stigma orange. Head shining. Mesonotum densely punctate, without transverse carinae. Hind coxa smooth, shining, with very fine cross striations. Pronotum with a blunt anteriorly projecting tooth.

Female:

Length, 10.5 mm; forewing length, 9.0 mm; ovipositor length, 7.0 mm. Color: Antenna with scape and pedicel orange; flagellar segment 3 and outer surface of 4 and 5 black, inner surface of 4 and 5 and all of 6-7 orange, segments 8 and 9 white, segments 10 to apex black. Head, body, and legs orange; tarsi yellowish; ovipositor sheath black with white streak on outer surface of basal half. Forewing black at base and black central spot on apical half with intervening hyaline to yellowish spots from radial cell to stigma and posteriorly to ventral apical area ( Fig. 119 View Figs 115-119 ). stigma and veins in hyaline to yellowish part orange to brownish, those in black areas black; hind wing uniformly black, veins black. Head: Antennal length 2.5X head width. Lower interocular distance subequal to eye height; malar space about 0.3X eye height ( Fig. 115 View Figs 115-119 ). Head from above broad behind eyes, then roundly narrowing, head length about 0.7X eye length ( Fig. 116 View Figs 115-119 ). Occipital carina very small, less than a fifth diameter of an ocellus. Shining with white pubescence, practically impunctate; few very fine widely scatter punctures on frons, slightly denser on supraclypeal area and clypeus ( Figs 115, 116 View Figs 115-119 ). Mesosoma : Anterior margin of pronotum with short, blunt anteriorly projecting tooth. Propleuron shining, with very fine scattered punctures. Rest of mesosoma shining, evenly reticulate, posterior margin of mesopleuron narrowly scrobiculate and upper part of pronotum and metapleuron more punctate ( Figs 117, 118 View Figs 115-119 ). Hind coxa smooth and shining, 2X longer than broad, with diagonal ovipositor guide near apex on inner surface. Hind basitarsus about 1.2X length of remaining tarsal segments combined. Tarsal claws with 5 teeth, lower tooth smallest. Forewing with cells 1M and 1Rs contiguous not separated by vein Rs+M ( Fig. 119 View Figs 115-119 ). Hind wing with veins distinct, cells Cu and R1+Rs contiguous (as in Fig. 110 View Figs 106-110 ). Metasoma: Segments 2 to apex with fine white pubescence and fine punctures. Ovipositor length 0.8X forewing length.

Male: Unknown.

Types: Holotype: Female , labeled “ Honduras: Francisco, Morazan, 25 km. S. Talanga (Hacienda Hachado), 11-V-1993, L. Stange & R. Miller ” ( FSCA) . Paratype: #15 – “Los Mayos, Sinaloa, Mex., VII-24-52, J. D. Lattin, Collector” (1 ♀, UCB) .

Etymology: Named for LIONEL STANGE, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL.

Remarks:

The paratype has the costal cell more infuscate than the yellowish costal cell of the holotype. I have not seen other species of Pristaulacus with the maculation as in Fig. 119 View Figs 115-119 .

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

UCB

University of California at Berkeley

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Aulacidae

Genus

Pristaulacus

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