Acanthaegilips ashmeadi Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2003

Ros-Farré, Palmira, Sporrong, Michael, Ronquist, Fredrik & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2003, Revision Of The Neotropical Anacharitinae Genus Acanthaegilips (Hym., Cynipoidea, Figitidae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 43 (2), pp. 11-30 : 18-19

Acanthaegilips ashmeadi Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar sp. n.

( Figs. 1E , 3E )

Studied material – 6, 3. Holotype: 1 ( MZLU-MS) 20-XII-1983 at Cuzco, Agua Caliente ( PERU) Lars Huggert col. Paratypes: Peru : 1 ( MZLU-MS), 21-XII-83 at Cuzco, Machu Pichu, Lars Huggert col. 1 & 1 (MZLU-MS) 28-XII-1983 same Holotype’s data. 2 ( MZLU-MS) same Holotype’s data. 1 ( MZUSP) 1 / 2-VII-1964 at Machu Pichu (2600-2800 m), B. Malkin col. Venezuela : 1 (USNM) 30-IV-1981 at Merida , Mucui nr. Tabay, Masner & Marsh col. 2 ( MZLU-MS) 24-VIII-1992 at Trujillo , Mosquey, near Bocono (1500 m). Cofee plant, L. Masner col.

Etymology – This name was chosen to honour Mr. William Harris Ashmead (1855-1908), U.S. A, who established the genus Acanthaegilips .

Length of head + mesosoma + metasoma in female: 2.75 mm; in male: 3.1 mm to 3.9 mm.

Colour – Female. Head, thorax and gaster black. Legs yellowish brown except hind coxa, which is black, and hind femur, tibia and tarsus, which are dark brown. Antennae dark brown, F7 to F10 ventrally lighter. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Male. Differs from female in having the antennae entirely black. Veins of wings dark brown.

Head – Female. Head with scattered short hairs. Malar furrow slightly curved. Postocular furrow absent. Occipital carina absent. Malar space 0.58 to 0.71 times the height of the compound eye. Transfacial line 0.53 to 0.55 times the greatest width of head and 1.03 to 1.08 times the height of a compound eye. Antennal foramina separated from each other by the same distance as that between the foramen and the compound eye. Pleurostomal lines weak. Male. Malar space 0.50 to 0.63 times the height of the compound eye. Transfacial line 0.52 to 0.57 times the greatest width of head and 1.03 to 1.10 times the height of a compound eye.

Antennae – Female. F1 to F3 cylindrical with a very small expansion at the apex. Following flagellomeres cylindrical. Length of F1 1.4 to 1.5 the length of F2. Scape and pedicel with sparse pubescence. The pubescence on the flagellomeres getting shorter and denser towards the 4 or 5 last flagellomeres, which have dense but very short pubescence. Antennal formula: 10 (3.5): 3 (2): 15 (2): 10 (2): 9 (2): 9 (2): 6.5 (2): 6 (2): 5 (3): 5 (3): 5 (3): 4 (2): 8 (2). Placodeal sensilla start on F2 but they are absent on the dorsal part of this segment and very scarce on dorsal part of F3. Male. Length of F1 1.36 to 1.44 times the length of F2. Flagellomeres covered with very short pubescence. Placodeal sensilla start on F1 but they are absent in the dorsal part of F1 and F2, on F3 and sometimes also on F4 they are very scarce at the dorsal part. F3 to F5 slightly expanded dorsolaterally with a longitudinal ridge on the raised part. Antennal formula: 13 (5.8): 4.5 (5.0): 25 (5.0): 18 (4.9): 17 (4.9): 17 (4.8): 15 (4.7): 15 (4.7): 12.5 (4.7): 12 (4.8): 11.5 (4.8): 11.5 (4.8): 11 (4.7): 13.5 (4.5).

Mesosoma – Female. Anterior pronotal plate rounded dorsally ( Fig. 3E ) and with a few white hairs near lateral and dorsolateral margins; near the dorsal margin there is a weak trace of transversely carinulate sculpture. Lateral surface of pronotum with sparse pubescence and with coarse areolate sculpture. Mesoscutum in lateral view 1.70 to 1.80 times higher than long; in dorsal view 1.30 to 1.42 times wider than long. Median mesoscutal impression short, not much longer than wide. Notauli reaching 1/2 the length of mesoscutum ( Fig. 1E ). There is a conspicuous line of hairs on the anterior and lateral margins of the mesoscutum. Scutellum in dorsal view 1.22 to 1.43 times the length of the mesoscutum. Scutellar foveae smooth, median and lateral ridges of the scutellar foveae sometimes not continuous and never straight to the end sometimes divided in smaller carinae. Lateral pit of scutellar fovea 1.4 to 1.5 times longer than wide; the distance from median scutellar carina to the inner margin of the pit 3.1 to 3.3 times the width of the pit. Scutellar spine broad at base and narrowing gradually ( Fig. 1E ). Scutellar disc in lateral view slightly slopping to base of scutel- lar spine, which is horizontally directed at base and slightly curved downwards towards apex. Mesopleural impression wide straight and smooth or, in some specimens, with weak transverse carinae. Mesopleural triangle densely pubescent anteriorly, sparsely pubescent posteriorly. Propodeum with coarse areolate sculpture. Lateral propodeal carinae and median propodeal carinae absent. Male. Anterior pronotal plate with a few hairs near lateral margins. Mesoscutum in lateral view 1.53 to 1.65 times higher than long. Scutellum in dorsal view 1.13 to 1.28 times the length of the mesoscutum.

Wings – Female. Marginal cell closed 3.13 to 3.20 times longer than wide. Marginal pubescence of the wing present starting from vein R1. Male. Marginal cell 2.9 to 3.0 times longer than wide.

Metasoma – Petiole 3.0 to 3.3 times as long as wide. Petiole dorsally smooth; laterally smooth but near the anterior end there are a few short carinae; ventrally costate. Third abdominal tergum dorsally 0.75 to 0.88 the length of the fourth tergum. Male. Petiole 3.2 to 3.3 times as long as broad. Third abdominal tergum dorsally 0.69 to 0.85 the length of the fourth tergum.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Dorsal view of thorax of A. macropennis sp. n. (A), A. levis sp. n. (B), A. masneri sp. n. (C), A. brasiliensis (D), A. ashmeadi sp. n. (E), A. diazi sp. n. (F).

FIGURE 3. Lateral view of A. macropennis sp. n. (A), A. levis sp. n. (B), A. masneri sp. n. (C), A. brasiliensis (D), A. ashmeadi sp. n. (E) and A. diazi sp. n. (F).