Creagrura allpahuaya Saeaeksjaervi , 2022,

Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari E., Kaunisto, Kari M., Sharkey, Michael, Stedenfeld, Shelby, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2022, Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Peru, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 91486-91486 : 91486

Creagrura allpahuaya Saeaeksjaervi, 2022 sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: sex: Female; occurrenceID: AE3C8A3C-96D5-53DA-9841-16BD70F6A5E9; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Allpahuayo ; Identification: identifiedBy: Isrrael Gómez & Ilari E. Sääksjärvi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 19-25.9-2011; habitat: Lowland rainforest; fieldNotes: Week18; Record Level: institutionCode: UNSM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: sex: Female; occurrenceID: 74A3844F-5B54-5229-84FC-690142FC109B; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Allpahuayo ; Identification: identifiedBy: Ilari E. Sääksjärvi et al.; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 14.9.- 4.10.2000; habitat: Lowland rainforest, white sand; fieldNotes: APHIG3/1; Record Level: institutionCode: UNSM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: sex: Female; occurrenceID: 714EC3C6-C904-5D7B-8D30-1863DD51723D; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Allpahuayo ; Identification: identifiedBy: Ilari E. Sääksjärvi (IES) & Reijo Jussila (RJ); Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 18.9.- 4.10.1998; habitat: Lowland rainforest, white sand (varillal); fieldNotes: APHI D1/3 012; Record Level: institutionCode: UNSM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: sex: Female; occurrenceID: 9A666798-1999-5A7D-BF68-C92B3930ACF3; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Allpahuayo ; Identification: identifiedBy: Ilari E. Sääksjärvi (IES) & Reijo Jussila (RJ); Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2- 24.3.2000; habitat: Lowland rainforest, white sand; fieldNotes: APHI G1/3; Record Level: institutionCode: UNSM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: sex: Female; occurrenceID: 2D8F44FE-9F21-5F8D-A3B5-C82708144023; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Allpahuayo ; Identification: identifiedBy: Ilari E. Sääksjärvi et al.; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1-15,12.2000; habitat: Lowland rainforest, clay; fieldNotes: APHI J1/17; Record Level: institutionCode: ZMUT Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: sex: Male; occurrenceID: E6D28160-38B1-53C4-9BFD-ABB906D955BD; Location: continent: South America ; country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Mishana ; Identification: identifiedBy: Ilari E. Sääksjärvi (IES) & Reijo Jussila (RJ); Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1- 16.11.1998; habitat: Lowland rainforest, clay; fieldNotes: APHI A1/6 022; Record Level: institutionCode: UNSM

Description

Female: Mandibles with outer surface bearing long scattered whitish hairs; clypeus about 1.7-1.8 times as broad as high, strongly convex, shiny; lower face shiny, centrally with convex swelling (Fig. 2 c). Mesoscutum polished, with median and lateral lobes punctate, posterior part of lateral lobe less punctate; notauli clearly impressed; meso- and metapleuron finely punctate, posterior transverse carina of the mesosternum strong and highly elevated. Propodeum in profile very long, extending to approximately 0.4-0.5x the length of posterior coxae, evenly declivous, with anterior and posterior transverse carinae strong, lateromedian longitudinal carina and pleural carina strong, lateral longitudinal carina more or less absent, weakly present posteriorly to posterior transverse carina and anteriorly to anterior transverse carina; area superomedia more or less coffin-shaped, straight laterally (Fig. 2 d). Hind tarsal claw small, with a row of close pectinae. Metasoma with tergite 2 about 1.6 times as long as tergite 1, with a clearly discernible thyridium which is widely separated from the anterior margin, laterotergite membraneous, pendant (Fig. 2 b). Ovipositor short, strongly de-curved, stout, without a subapical notch, ovipositor sheath with long, scattered hairs. Structure otherwise as figured (Fig. 2) and described in generic description.

A primarily yellowish-orange species, with antenna, hind femur, hind tibia, hind tarsal segments and tergites 2-6 dark brownish to shiny blackish; central lobe of pronotum brownish; propodeum orange, without brownish areas. Ovipositor dark brown or orange, ovipositor sheaths blackish. Wings hyaline, with veins, pterostigma and apical part (approximately 0.2) of front wing blackish. Structure otherwise as figured (Fig. 2) and described in generic description.

Male: Similar to female in size, structure and colouration. Claspers simple, brownish in colouration. Aedeagus slender, slightly enlarged and rounded apically, with fine whitish britles apically. Obs.: only one male specimen has been found. This specimen has strongly elevated propodeal carination.

Diagnosis

Creagrura allpahuaya sp. n. is the most distinctive species of Creagrura . It can be easily distinguished from other species of Creagrura by the following set of characters: tergite 2 long, approximately 1.6 times as long as tergite 1, mesosoma predominatly yellowish-orange, hind coxa orange (ventrally and laterally), hind femur (except for apical white spot), tibia and tarsal segments black and tergite 2-6 predominantly blackish. It resembles C. nigripes in colouration of hind legs (both species have black or blackish hind femura). However, metasoma of C. nigripes is predominantly orange and it has large brownish areas in pronotum, scutellum, propodeum and hind coxa. These structures are yellowish-orange in C. allpahuaya .

Etymology

The specific name " Creagrura allpahuaya " refers to the type locality: National Reserve of Allpahuayo-Mishana ( Perú).

Distribution

Peru.

Biology

Nothing is known about the host relationships of this species.

Taxon discussion

This species is only known from the Western Amazonian lowland rain forests (National Reserve of Allpahuayo-Mishana, Department of Loreto, Iquitos, Perú).