Alphomelon guillermopereirai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori, 2023

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Shimbori, Eduardo M., Whitfield, James B., Penteado-Dias, Angelica M., Shaw, Scott R., Boudreault, Caroline, Sones, Jayme, Perez, Kate, Brown, Allison, Manjunath, Ramya, Burns, John M., Hebert, P. D. N., Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2023, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Alphomelon Mason with the description of 30 new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), ZooKeys 1175, pp. 5-162 : 5

Alphomelon guillermopereirai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori sp. nov.

Figs 34A-G , 35A-F , 36A-G , 96B

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Alajuela, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Jacobo, 10°56'26.88"N, 85°19'3.72"W, 461m; 22.VI.2012; ex: undetermined hesperiid with provisional name "hespJanzen01 Janzen55"; coll. Edwin Apu; Voucher code: DHJPAR0049916; Host voucher code: 12-SRNP-81025.

Paratypes. Costa Rica • 12 females, 3 males, CNC. Voucher codes: DHJPAR0043075, DHJPAR0043077, DHJPAR0043086, DHJPAR0043087, DHJPAR0047235, DHJPAR0053881, DHJPAR0054794, DHJPAR0054802, DHJPAR0055561, DHJPAR0055293, DHJPAR0055325, CNC308812, CNC704669, CNC1065996, CNCHYM 00017.

Other specimens examined.

Costa Rica • 2 Females, CNC. Voucher codes: DHJPAR0026274, DHJPAR0049249 .

Distribution.

Costa Rica (ACG and Peñas Blancas).

Biology.

Solitary, reared from Mnasitheus Janzen55, Anthoptus epictetus , Anthoptus insignis , Anthoptus Burns33, Corticea corticea , Cymaenes odilia trebius .

DNA barcoding.

BINBOLD:AAB8584 (but see Notes below).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Sr. Guillermo Pereira honor of his decades of teamwork in the ACG parataxonomist team.

Diagnostic description.

White patch on gena: extending to occiput but not to clypeus. Tegula/humeral complex color: yellow/yellow. Mesonotum color: mostly dark brown to black. Metasoma color: with several tergites orange-yellow, some laterotergites and sternites yellow, rest mostly brown. Tarsal claws spines: 4. Pterostigma shape: comparatively less elongate, its length ≤ 2.5 × its central height and usually more rounded with at least one of its lower margins curved. T1 sculpture: weakly sculptured along margins. T1 central ridge: marked by two raised carinae and strong costulae centrally. T2 sculpture: weakly sculptured along margins. Ovipositor sheaths length: longer than first segment of metatarsus. Body length: 4.1-4.5 mm. Fore wing length: 4.2-4.5 mm.

Notes.

The associated BIN includes at least three (possibly more) species, see further explanations and details under the treatment of Alphomelon melanoscelis . Two ACG specimens (DHJPAR0026274 and DHJPAR0049249) have a darker coloration (they look similar to A. andydeansi and thus they would end in a different place of the key) and also have different DNA barcodes. They are excluded from the type series.

Figures

Figure 34. Alphomelon guillermopereirai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori holotype female DHJPAR 0049916 A ovipositor, lateral B habitus, lateral C head, lateral D head, frontal E wings F metasoma, dorsal G mesosoma, dorsal

Figure 35. Alphomelon guillermopereirai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori paratype female DHJPAR 0054794 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D mesosoma, dorsal E propodeum and metasoma, dorsal F ovipositor, lateral.

Figure 36. Alphomelon guillermopereirai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori paratype female DHJPAR 0054802 A head, lateral B habitus, lateral C head, frontal D wings E mesosoma, dorsal F metasoma, dorsal G ovipositor, lateral.

Figure 96. Parasite cocoons A Alphomelon gloriasihezarae 09 - SRNP- 45000 - DHJ 465227 B Alphomelon guillermopereirai 16 - SRNP- 70422 - DHJ 732639.