Stantonia gilbertfuentesi Sharkey, 2021

Sharkey, Michael J., Baker, Austin, McCluskey, Kathryn, Smith, Alex, Naik, Suresh, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Sones, Jayme, D'Souza, Michelle, Jacques, Brianne St., Hebert, Paul, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2021, ? Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records, ZooKeys 1075, pp. 77-136 : 77

? Stantonia gilbertfuentesi Sharkey sp. nov.

Diagnostics.

Figure 26 .

BOLD data.

BIN: BOLD:AEC3983; nearest neighbor: Stantonia miriamzunzae BOLD:ACB1896; distance to nearest neighbor is 4.47%. Consensus barcode: TATATTGTATTTTTTGTTTGGTATATGGTCTGGGGTGTTAGGTTTATCACTAAGTTTAATTATTCGTATAGAATTAGGTCAAATTGGTTCATTTATTGGAAATGATCAAATTTATAATAGTATTGTTACTTCTCATGCTTTTATTATAATTTTTTTTATAGTTATGCCTATTATAATTGGGGGGTTTGGAAATTGATTGATTCCTTTAATATTAGGAAGTGTTGATATAGCTTTCCCTCGAATAAATAATATAAGATTTTGATTATTAATTCCTTCTTTAATATTATTAATTTTAAGAGGATTTATAAATATTGGTGTAGGTACAGGATGAACAGTTTACCCTCCTTTATCATTAAATGTTAGTCATATAGGAATTTCTGTAGATATAGCTATTTTTTCATTACATTTGGCTGGTATTTCTTCAATTATAGGTGCTATTAATTTTATTGTTACTATTATAAATATACGAAATTATGGGGTATTAATAGATAAAATTAGATTATTATCATGATCAATTTTAATTACAGCTATTTTATTATTGTTATCTTTACCTGTGTTAGCTGGTGCTATTACAATATTGTTAACTGACCGTAATTTAAATACATCCTTTTTTGATCCTGCTGGAGGAGGGGATCCTATTTTATATCAACATTTATTT

Morphological data.

This species can be morphologically distinguished from its nearest neighbor by having the first metasomal tergite uniformly pale yellowish-orangeand the mesoscutum uniformly yellowish-orange (Fig. 26 ), contrasting with the first metasomal tergite darkening apically and melanic patches on each of the three mesoscutal lobes in S. miriamzunzae ( Sharkey et al. 2021a: 502, fig. 354).

Holotype?: Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, 369 m, 10.969 -85.32; host caterpillar collection date: 07/ix/2019, parasitoid eclosion: 28/ix/2019; depository CNC, holotype voucher code: DHJPAR0065133, GenBank accession: MW627539.

Holotype host data.

Casandria Poole01 ( Erebidae ) feeding on Vismia baccifera ( Hypericaceae ), caterpillar voucher code:19-SRNP-46256. Erebidae is a new host-family record for Stantonia .

Etymology.

Stantonia gilbertfuentesi is named in honor of Gilbert Fuentes of the Organización de Estudios Tropicales of Costa Rica in recognition of his decades of intensive management of the OET library of tropical publications.

Figures

Figure 26. Stantonia gilbertfuentesi, holotype.