Creagrura rogerblancoi 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 rogerblancoi Saeaeksjaervi, 2022 sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualID: 06-SRNP-43689; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0016381; occurrenceID: 0658998C-FA34-5B6E-BDC2-A5E0BCE03F70; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-57407; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR28409; occurrenceID: BE2D3220-3903-56A9-8F71-9A8098ED7C86; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-42145; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0021134; occurrenceID: 60A782D4-A10E-53C8-8FAC-A8C3062E046E; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: CNI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-42145; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0021134; occurrenceID: 49EAE486-0DC5-53FB-8D9C-3BDE8133A564; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: CNI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 08-SRNP-57409; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0028410; occurrenceID: 80375DD1-D09D-5A10-AA90-95FC4663F1C9; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: MNC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-40196; sex: Female; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0016933; occurrenceID: 9C3FECC4-CAE3-5CB1-8BE5-A96E60F3C4C8; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMUT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-42148; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0021104; occurrenceID: 77A35467-6A2C-5FE1-A749-FE086087D8FC; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: AEI Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualID: 07-SRNP-56455; sex: Male; associatedSequences: DHJPAR0019860; occurrenceID: 191EB5B2-488A-5B8F-9E66-29833F5779A5; Location: country: Costa Rica; locality: Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste ; Identification: identifiedBy: D.H.Janzen & W. Hallwachs; Event: samplingProtocol: Rearing; Record Level: institutionCode: AEI

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. 3 c). 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 0.2-0.3x 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, straight laterally (Fig. 3 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. 3 b). Ovipositor short, strongly de-curved, stout, without a subapical notch, ovipositor sheath with long, scattered hairs. Structure otherwise as figured (Fig. 3) and described in generic description.

A primarily yellowish-orange species, with antenna, hind tibia, hind tarsal segments, tergite 1 dorsally and apical part of tergite 2 dorsally black or blackish; central lobe of pronotum fuscous; propodeum orange, without brownish areas; hind femur orange, with apical whitish spot; hind coxa orange (Fig. 3 b). Ovipositor yellowish-orange, ovipositor sheaths blackish. Wings hyaline, with veins, pterostigma and apical part (approximately 0.2) of front wing blackish. Structure otherwise as figured (Fig. 3) and described in generic description.

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 rogerblancoi sp. n. 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 entirely orange (without any brownish or blackish spots or stripes), hind coxa orange (both ventrally and dorsally) and hind femur orange. This species is sympatric (in Costa Rica) with C. alejandromasisi sp. n. However, these two species are readily distinguishable by their colouration. C. rogerblancoi is also readly distinguished from C. nigripes which has, for example, blackish hind femurs and brownish “W-shape” on propodeum.

Etymology

This species is named in honour of Costa Rica’s Roger Blanco Segura to honour his four decades of intense and dedicated management and care of the biodiversity of Parque Nacional Santa Rosa and then its expansion to become Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Distribution

North-western Costa Rica.

Biology

See above.