Notiospathius ornaticornis ( Cameron )

Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro & Jesús-Bonilla, Vladimir Salvador De, 2010, Redescription of species of the Neotropical parasitoid Notiospathius Mathews et Marsh (Braconidae: Doryctinae) based on their nineteenth and early twentieth century types, Zootaxa 2543, pp. 31-42 : 37

Notiospathius ornaticornis ( Cameron) ( Figs 4 A–D)

Spathius ornaticornis Cameron, 1887

Female. — Colour: head brown; scape and pedicel light brown; antennae broken, flageromeres missing [flagellum brown, apical third white according to Marsh (2002)]; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite dark brown to black; second to fifth terga dark brown on basal half, light brown on apical half, remaining terga light brown. Fore and middle legs honey yellow, except tarsomeres, which are light brown; hind leg coxa brown, trochanters, femur and tibia light brown, tarsomeres brown. Wings hyaline, veins light brown, stigma light brown; tegula yellow. Body length, 4.0 mm; ovipositor 1.6 mm. Head: temple about 0.28 times eye width; face striate; frons weakly costate; vertex transversally striate; temple and gena smooth; eyes 1.3 times higher than wide; malar suture absent; malar space 0.25 times eye eight; hypoclypeal depression slightly elliptical; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; occipital carina complete, joining ventrally with hypostomal carina; scape weakly coriaceous; pedicel coriaceous; scape 1.5 longer than wide. Mesosoma: length 2.3 times its maximum height; propleuron weakly coriaceous to smooth; pronotum porcate-coriaceous; median and lateral lobes coriaceous; notauli scrobiculate and wide; mesopleuron smooth dorsally, coriaceous medially, weakly coriaceous to smooth ventrally; sternaulus scrobiculate, shallow; venter of mesosoma smooth; propodeum coriaceous, with distinct median, lateral and areolar carinae, without spines over hind coxa and apical-lateral corners. Wings: forewings 3.3 times longer than its maximum width; pterostigma 3 times longer than wide. Legs: hind coxa coriaceous anteriorly, striate-rugose posteriorly. Metasoma: first metasomal tergite coriaceous at base, longitudinally costate-coriaceous medially, and longitudinally costate basally; basal sternal plate (acrosternite) 0.75 times length of tergum; second tergum weakly coriaceous basally, remaining area smooth; remaining terga smooth; ovipositor 0.82 times as long as metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype. Panama: female, ‘V. de Chiriqui, 2300 ft. Champion’. NHM type Hym. 3c 525.

Comments. This species can be distinguished from the remaining species, except from N. bribri , by having distinct carinae on the propodeum. The latter species differs from N. ornaticornis by having a smooth vertex and mesoscutum (vertex transversally striate and mesoscutum coriaceous in N. ornaticornis ).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Notiospathius ornaticornis: A) head, dorsolateral view; B) mesosoma, dorsal view; C) mesosoma, lateral view; D) metasoma, dorsal view.