Aulacus heredia SMITH, 2008

Smith, David R., 2008, Aulacidae of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Hymenoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2), pp. 267-355 : 284-285

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.267-355

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:959C00C8-C510-47C0-9ABB-0D8712B3E6BD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458589

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F331220-862B-4BFE-8BA4-713977DEF001

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:4F331220-862B-4BFE-8BA4-713977DEF001

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Aulacus heredia SMITH
status

sp. nov.

Aulacus heredia SMITH , new species

( Figs 22-25 View Figs 22-25 )

Diagnosis:

Head and mesosoma orange, propleuron black; head shining without sculpture; tarsi white.

Female: Unknown.

Male:

Length, 6.0 mm; forewing length 5.0 mm. Color: Head and mesosoma orange with blackish spot behind ocelli; propleuron, coxae, hind legs except white hind tarsus; and metasomal tergites blackish. Forewing hyaline with apical margin black; stigma and veins dark orange to brown. Head: Antennal length 3.3X head width. Lower interocular distance subequal to eye height; malar space about 0.3X eye height ( Fig. 22 View Figs 22-25 ). From above head long and gradually narrowing behind eyes, head behind eyes subequal to eye length ( Fig. 23 View Figs 22-25 ). Vertex and frons shining, without sculpture ( Figs 22, 23 View Figs 22-25 ). Mesosoma: Propleuron smooth, shining. Mesoscutum reticulate with wavy transversely directed sculpture; notauli meeting separately on transscutal articulation ( Fig. 25 View Figs 22-25 ); axilla and mesoscutellum reticulate. Pronotum smooth shining except several arced carinae at center; mesopleuron with mesepisternum smooth and shining above, very coarse reticulations at center, mesosternum finely reticulate, mesepimeron with widely spaced cross carinae; metapleuron smooth and shining above, below with large, coarse reticulations; propodeum coarsely reticulate ( Figs 24, 25 View Figs 22-25 ). Hind coxa smooth and shining, 2.1X longer than broad. Hind basitarsus 1.1X length of remaining tarsal segments combined. Metasoma: Smooth, shining, without pubescence.

Holotype: Male , “ Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia, 11 km ESE La Lirgen, 10 21'N, 84 03'W, 250-350 m, 3/M/16/096, 18.iv.2004, INBio-OET-transect” ( USNM). GoogleMaps

Etymology: Named for Heredia, the province in Costa Rica where this species was collected; a noun in apposition.

Remarks:

This is a small, orange, smooth and shining species and is therefore not likely to be the male of one of the described females in this family.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Aulacus

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