Apanteles manuelriosi Fernandez-Triana

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Rodriguez, Josephine J., Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie D., Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Burns, John M., Solis, M. Alma, Brown, John, Cardinal, Sophie, Goulet, Henri & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2014, Review of Apantelessensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica, ZooKeys 383, pp. 1-565 : 221-222

Apanteles manuelriosi Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Figs 88, 267

Apanteles Rodriguez60 ( Smith et al. 2006). Interim name provided by the authors.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Sector Pitilla, Loaiciga, 445m, 11.01983, -85.41342.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Loaiciga, 8.vi.2004, 445m, 11.01983, -85.41342. 2. DHJPAR0002914. 3. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 04-SRNP-33152.

Paratypes.

7 ♀, 2 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: 97-SRNP-5757, 02-SRNP-3735, 04-SRNP-56294, 05-SRNP-33209, 06-SRNP-31198, 06-SRNP-32523, 07-SRNP-33461, 08-SRNP-65992, 08-SRNP-70494.

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex dark. Pterostigma color: dark. Fore wing veins color: mostly dark (a few veins may be unpigmented). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 4.0 mm or more. Fore wing length: 4.0 mm or more. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0-2.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0-2.2. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3-2.5, 2.6-2.8, rarely 2.0-2.2. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 2.6-2.9. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.1-1.3. Tarsal claws: pectinate. Metafemur length/width: 3.2-3.3. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.6-0.7. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly punctured. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8 or 9 or 10. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4-0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 1.7-1.9. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less parallel–sided. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly smooth. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 3.6-3.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0-5.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.8-0.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.3 or more. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.7-1.8. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.5-0.6. Pterostigma length/width: 3.1-3.5. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: clearly beyond half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: clearly outwards, inclined towards fore wing apex. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.

Male. The pterostigma and most of veins in fore wing are transparent, while the metasomal terga tend to be lighter in color.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 22, barcode compliant sequences: 20.

Biology/ecology.

Solitary (Fig. 267). Host: Hesperiidae , Quadrus cerialis .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Manuel Ríos in recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Parataxónomos and Estación Biológica Pitilla of ACG.