Creagrura alejandromasisi Saeaeksjaervi , 2022,

Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari E., Kaunisto, Kari M., Sharkey, Michael, Stedenfeld, Shelby, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2022, Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Peru, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 91486-91486 : 91486

Creagrura alejandromasisi Saeaeksjaervi, 2022 sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualID: 05-SRNP-43720; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0009786; occurrenceID: D2AE4CD4-686C-53BD-B042-39F54449B8A5; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0009786; institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 09-SRNP-40615; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0035191; occurrenceID: FFDD92D9-0F31-5DE3-B45F-60790C297B66; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0035191; institutionCode: CNI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-564; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0023408; occurrenceID: F1733153-7631-5029-8D82-9887652D1283; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0023408; institutionCode: ZMUT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-463; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0023423; occurrenceID: 4F44D56B-006C-5E89-928B-E063DD94CAF4; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0023423; institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 06-SRNP-34134; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0016378; occurrenceID: DC9AEF7C-E9B6-5CD6-A8B8-8C9830C964B4; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0016378; institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-5087; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0028406; occurrenceID: 889FC6C5-7740-58B2-B622-E88B4B41CA10; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0028406; institutionCode: CNI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-488; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0023422; occurrenceID: BE1B57F9-DAC9-5E9A-B00E-7FBB83E39296; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0023422; institutionCode: MNC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-30407; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0017220; occurrenceID: 96AE0980-0B84-5250-A6D9-F790FAC7A5BD; Location: continent: Americas; country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen, W.Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: datasetID: DHJPAR0017220; institutionCode: ZMUT

Description

Female: Mandibles with outer surface bearing long scattered whitish hairs; clypeus about 1.7-1.8 times as broad as high, strongly convex, shiny; lower face shiny, centrally with convex swelling (Fig. 1 a). Mesoscutum polished, with median and lateral lobes punctate, posterior part of lateral lobe less punctate; notauli clearly impressed; meso- and metapleuron finely punctate, posterior transverse carina of the mesosternum strong and highly elevated. Propodeum in profile moderately long, extending to approximately 0.2-0.3 the length of posterior coxae, evenly declivous, with anterior and posterior transverse carinae strong, lateromedian longitudinal carina and pleural carina strong, lateral longitudinal carina more or less absent, weakly present posteriorly to posterior transverse carina and anteriorly to anterior transverse carina; area superomedia more or less coffin-shaped, curved laterally (Fig. 1 d). Hind tarsal claw small, with a row of close pectinae. Metasoma with tergite 2 about 1.3 times as long as tergite 1, with a clearly discernible thyridium which is widely separated from the anterior margin, laterotergite membraneous, pendant (Fig. 1 b). Ovipositor short, strongly de-curved, stout, without a subapical notch, ovipositor sheath with long, scattered hairs. Structure otherwise as figured (Fig. 1) and described in generic description.

A primarily yellowish species, with antenna, dorsal sripes (3) of pronotum, scutellum, propodeum, tarsal segments of mid-leg, tibia and tarsal segments of hind leg blackish or brownish; hind femur orange, with apical whitish spot; hind coxa orange; area dentipara brownish; metasoma predominantly orange, tergite 1 apically brownish, tergites 2-3 dorsally brownish or blackish (Fig. 1 a). Ovipositor yellowish-orange, ovipositor sheath blackish. Wings hyaline, with veins, pterostigma and apical part (approximately 0.2) of front wing dark brownish.

Male: Similar to female in size, structure and colouration. Claspers simple, orange in colouration. aedeagus slender, slightly enlarged and rounded apically, with fine whitish britles apically.

Diagnosis

Creagrura alejandromasisi can be distinguished from other species of Creagrura by the following set of characters: tergite 1 about 1.3x as long as tergite 2; propodeum yellowish, with a brownish longitudinal stripe extending from area petiolaris to area basalis and brownish spot in area dentipara; hind coxa and femur orange and metasoma predominantly yellowish. It closely resembles the holotype of C. nigripes Townes in colouration. However, femurs of C. nigripes are shiny black and hind coxa orange ventrally and brownish dorsally. In addition, propodeum of C. nigripes has a W-shaped brown area dorsally. C. alejandromasisi sp. n. is sympatric (in Costa Rica) with C. rogerblancoi sp. n. However, these two species are readily distinguishable from each other by their colouration and their DNA barcodes.

Etymology

Creagrura alejandromasisi is named in honour of Costa Rica’s Alejandro Masís Cuevillas in recogntion of his 27 years of intense biological and administrative support to ACG parataxonomists, INBio, ACG as its Director and the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund as its advisor.

Distribution

North-western Costa Rica.

Ecology

See above.