Chromoteleia pilus Chen & Johnson

Chen, Hua-yan, Talamas, Elijah J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2018, Revision of the World species of the genus Chromoteleia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae), ZooKeys 778, pp. 1-95 : 5

Chromoteleia pilus Chen & Johnson sp. n. Figures 24, 170-175

Description.

Body length of female: 4.98-5.90 mm (n = 20). Body length of male: 4.73-5.33 mm (n = 20). Color of A1: yellow to orange. A6 in female: distinctly wider than long. A5 in female: distinctly longer than wide. A6 in male: as long as wide. Number of basiconic sensilla on A7: 0. Number of basiconic sensilla on A12: 2. Sculpture of dorsal A1: striate. Color of head: black. Sculpture of frons directly above interantennal process: punctate rugose. Central keel: present, interrupted medially. Ventral margin of clypeus: pointed. Granulate microsculpture of dorsal frons: present. Occipital carina: interrupted medially. Granulate microsculpture of vertex: present. Sculpture of occiput: rugose. Sculpture of gena: narrowly smooth ventrally, punctate rugose dorsally.

Color of mesosoma: orange. Sculpture of epicoxal lobe posterior of propleural epicoxal sulcus: densely punctate. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area above pronotal cervical sulcus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of netrion: transversely striate. Microsculpture of mesoscutum: granulate. Macrosculpture of mesoscutal midlobe: punctate rugose throughout. Macrosculpture of lateral lobe of mesoscutum: punctate rugose. Sculpture of notaulus: foveate. Notaular foveae: discrete. Median mesoscutal carina: present along full length of mesoscutum; present anteriorly, not extending to posterior margin of mesoscutum. Mesoscutellum in lateral view: convex. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: smooth medially, densely punctate laterally. Shape of metascutellum: trapezoidal with broad posterior margin. Median metascutellar carina: absent or indistinguishable from sculpture. Sculpture of metascutellum: rugose. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: rugose. Mesopleural carina: present. Sculpture of mesepisternum below femoral depression: punctate throughout. Sculpture of dorsal metapleural area: rugose. Setation of dorsal metapleural area: present. Setation of area directly dorsal to the metapleural triangle: present. Sculpture of ventral metapleural area: rugose throughout. Color of legs: orange yellow throughout. Length of hind basitarsus: about as long as remaining segments combined. Sculpture of hind coxa: densely punctate.

Length of postmarginal vein: distinctly longer than stigmal vein.

Color of metasoma in female: black. Horn on T1 in female: present. Striae of posterior margin of T1 in female: dense. Striae of T1 in male: dense. Transverse sulcus on T2: present. Sculpture of T2: densely longitudinally striate, punctate rugulose in interstices. Sculpture of T6 in female: densely longitudinally striate, with fine punctures in interstices. Length of T6 in female: approximately as long as wide. Shape of T6 in female in lateral view: flat. Apical spine on female T6: absent. Sculpture of T6 in male: densely punctate. Sculpture of T7 in male: coriaceous anteriorly, densely punctate posteriorly. Posterior margin of T7 in male: straight. Sculpture of medial S2: densely longitudinally striate with fine punctures in interstices.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to C. depilis in color and size, but it can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: dorsal metapleural area with setation, A6 in female as wide as long.

Etymology.

The epithet is inspired by the Latin word for hair, in reference to the setose dorsal metapleuron, and is intended to be treated as a noun.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=452225]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Prov., road to Rincón, 24 km W Pan-American Highway, 200 m, II-1989 - III-1989, Hanson & Gauld, OSUC584261 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (53 females, 31 males) COSTA RICA: 49 females, 31 males, OSUC149651, 202550, 202553, 202555-202556, 203109 (AEIC); OSUC556972, 556986, 556988, 556992, 557002, 557011-557012, 557049, 557061, 557083, 577903, 577907, 577933, 577935-577937, 577941, 577953, 577988, 578002-578004, 578058, 578082-578083, 578103, 583440, 583448, 583717, 583723, 583817, 583880, 583887, 583943-583944, 584032, 584035, 584037-584039, 584236, 584238, 584262, 586170, 586173, 586210, 586290, 586310, 586512, 586533, 586544, 586644, 586680, 586747, 586772, 586836 (CNCI); OSUC202551, 202554, 556989, 557040, 56234, 578005, 578081, 578091, 583882, 583886, 583940, 584041, 584247, 586509, 586545, 586646, 586780 (OSUC); OSUC221941 (TAMU). MEXICO: 1 female, OSUC584145 (CNCI). PANAMA: 3 females, OSUC584378, 584381, 586504 (CNCI).