Pseudapanteles jorgerodriguezi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex & Kula, Robert, 2014, Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 446, pp. 1-82 : 16-17

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudapanteles jorgerodriguezi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 65- 69

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. COSTA RICA, ACG, Alajuela Province, Sector San Cristobal, Estacion San Gerardo, 575m, 10.88009, -85.38887, 22.vii.2007. ACG database code: DHJPAR0025854.

Diagnosis.

It belongs to the annulicornis species-group, and can be separated from other species within that group based on the combination of ovipositor sheaths length, T2 mostly longitudinally striate (except for small smooth central area), propodeum mostly smooth (with only median longitudinal carina), and scutoscutellar sulcus with 6 impressed pits.

Description.

Female. Body length 2.0-2.1 mm. Fore wing length 2.2-2.3 mm. Head color: mostly dark brown to black, except for yellow clypeus, labrum, mandibles, and spot on lower corner of gena near oral foramen. Flagellomere color: all flagellomere brown to black. Mesosoma color: entirely dark brown to black. Metasoma color (dorsally): mostly dark brown to black, except for yellow-orange anterior 0.4-0.6 of mediotergite 1. Coxae color: pale/pale/mostly or completely dark. Metatibia color: mostly pale, with posterior 0.1-0.2 dark. Metatarsus color: dark. Pterostigma color: entirely dark. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin 4.1-4.5 ×. Mediotergite 1 maximum width/width at posterior margin 2.1-2.2 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 4.0-4.1 ×. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: Mostly with longitudinally striate sculpture (sometimes with small, smooth area centrally). Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.9 × as long as metatibia.

Male. Unknown.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 1, barcode compliant sequences: 1.

Biology/ecology.

Malaise-trapped.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG rain forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Sr. Jorge Rodriguez, who as a forester and a Costa Rican Vice-Minister and Minister of the Environment helped ACG forge new paths of self-support through Environmental Service Payments (Pagos para Servicios Ambientales).