Prasmodon bobpoolei Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield, 2014

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Braet, Yves, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2014, Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 37, pp. 1-52 : 12-14

Prasmodon bobpoolei Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 13-18 , 99

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, ACG, Alajuela, Province, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Montanya Figueres, 460m, 10.88367, -85.29081.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0045302. 2. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 11-SRNP-42719.

Paratype.

4 ♀, 2 ♂ (CNC, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0038211, DHJPAR0038246, DHJPAR0039997, DHJPAR0040003, DHJPAR0040005, DHJPAR0045165.

Description.

Female. Body length 4.1-4.2 mm, 4.3-4.4 mm, rarely 4.5-4.6 mm. Fore wing length 4.5-4.6 mm, rarely 4.7-4.8 mm. Body color: meso- and metasoma entirely yellow-orange (with the exception of a very small black spot on axillar complex). Scape color: partially dark brown to black ( Figs 17, 18 ). Flagellomeres color: most flagellomeres brown to black, except for small apical area (F15-16, and occasionally apical half of F14) which is yellow-brown ( Fig. 13 ). Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex partially dark/partialy pale. Mesotibia color: posterior 0.1-0.2 dark brown to black. Metatibia color: posterior 0.1-0.3 dark brown to black ( Fig. 15 ). Metatibia spurs color: yellow-orange ( Fig. 15 ). Metatarsus color: entirely yellow-white. Fore wing color pattern: uniformly and entirely infumate (except for small hyaline area near veins (RS+M)b and 2M). Fore wing veins color: all veins dark brown ( Fig. 14 ). Pterostigma color: entirely dark brown. Hypostomal carina: not raised ( Fig. 16 ). Scutoscutellar sulcus: with 5 impressions ( Fig. 17 ). Areolet height÷vein r length (fore wing): 0.2 ×. Hind wing subbasal cell: mostly without setae. Hind tarsal claws: with pectination uniform, teeth thick and relatively evenly spaced. Shape of mediotergite 1: distinctly narrowing posteriorly, width at posterior margin clearly less than width at anterior margin and median width ( Fig. 18 ). Mediotergite 1 length÷width at posterior margin 5.6-6.0 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin÷length: 2.6-3.0 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.6 × as long as metatibia, rarely 0.5 × as long as metatibia.

Male. As female but with flagellomeres fully dark brown to black.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 15, barcode compliant sequences: 15 ( Fig. 105 ).

Biology and ecology.

Host: Elachistidae , Antaeotricha BioLep38, Antaeotricha Janzen110, Antaeotricha Janzen126, Gonioterma Janzen212, Stenoma Janzen129.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG rain forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Bob Poole of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, in recognition of his decades of taxonomic knowledge and support contributing to understanding the species-level and higher taxonomy of the Noctuoidea and Geometroidea of ACG, INBio and Costa Rica, as well as other parts of the world.

Figures

Figure 105. Neighbor-Joining tree (Saitou and Nei 1987) based on distances computed using the Kimura 2 - parameter method (Kimura 1980) of all Prasmodon sequences from the ACG. Tree tips are labeled with species name | specimen accession | host information | sequence length and ambiguities | type status.

Figures 13 - 18. Prasmodon bobpoolei. 13 Habitus 14 Fore wing 15 Metatibia 16 Head and mesosoma (partially), lateral view 17 Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 18 Propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.

Figure 98 - 99. 98 Cocoon of Prasmodon scottmilleri 99 Cocoon of Prasmodon bobpoolei.