Daggoo, 2002

Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1), pp. 1-56 : 38

DAGGOO WAHL & SIME , GEN. N.

Type-species. Daggoo philoctetes sp. n.

Description. Flagellum of female bristle-shaped, with flagellomere 3 3.1¥ as long as wide; flagellum of male without tyloids. Clypeus narrow, basally with two lateral concavities, median concavity just above apical margin, apicolateral margin forming a rounded angle of approximately 40°, punctures evenly distributed, apical 0.3 not thinned, apical margin straight and without median projection. Mandible long and evenly tapered to apex, ventral tooth in same plane as dorsal tooth. Supra-antennal area without median paired ridges or denticles. Vertex with posterior section about as long as ocellar triangle, gently sloping to occipital carina. Gena flat and receding in dorsal view. Juncture of hypostomal and occipital carinae separated from mandible by about basal mandibular width. Occipital carina with ventral region above mandible not produced as a low flange.

Pronotal flange high and with posterior face flat. Epicnemial carina absent. Scutellum conical; lateral carinae absent. Central convexity of metanotum not widened and lateral depressions not reduced. Base of propodeum rising steeply and abruptly. Areola not distinguishable, only anterior transverse carina appears to be present. Anterior transverse carina complete, median section swollen; posterior transverse carina absent; lateral longitudinal carinae absent; median longitudinal carinae present, sections basad anterior transverse carina separated by low carina. First lateral area with regularly distributed punctures; second lateral area rugosopunctate. Metapleural sculpture regularly punctate. Juxtacoxal carina absent. Propodeal lateral profile steeply sloping. Scopa absent. Cell 1 + 2Rs of fore wing petiolate, vein 2/Rs <3r-m, vein 2m-cu interception at midpoint of posterior margin.

MS 1 in lateral view with petiole flattened, postpetiole convex; sclerotized anterior portion of S1 1.2 ¥ as long as distance from posterior margin of anterior portion to apex of T1 ; petiole basally without dorsal or lateral bulges; postpetiole without basal convexity, median longitudinal carinae absent, median field absent, regularly punctate. Ventral margin of T2 simple. T2-4 with weak longitudinal rugae over entire surface of each tergite. T2-4 laterally weakly flattened, with normal punctures separated by about 0.3¥ their diameter to contiguous. T2-5 basally constricted and without dorsolateral ridges. S2-4 divided, S5 entire. Apex of female metasoma with T6-8 barely projecting beyond apex of T5 ; amblypygous .

Autapomorphies. Anterior transverse carina of propodeum medially swollen (#29–1); cell 1 + 2Rs of fore wing with vein 2m-cu interception apicad midpoint of posterior margin (#41–1); postpetiole of T1 without distinct median field (#47–1).

Etymology. The genus is named after one of the harpooners in Melville’s novel Moby Dick.

Species and distribution. There is one described species, and one undescribed species [AEIC], both found in El Salvador.

Biology. Daggoo philoctetes has been reared from Parides photinus (Doubleday) ( Papilionidae : Troidini ) ( El Salvador: Ahuachapán [NMNH]; see holotype data, below), and the undescribed species has been reared from Parides montezuma (Westwood) ( El Salvador, Aug. 1995 [AEIC]). Both wasps emerged from the pupae; no other biological data are available. Given the toxicity and chemical uniqueness of the Troidini ( Aristolochia -feeding Papilionidae ), it is likely that Daggoo is restricted to this group, if not to Parides alone ( Miller & Feeny 1989; Gauld & Gaston 1994). The hosts reported here feed on a variety of Aristolochia species ( Tyler et al. 1994).