Alphomelon duvalierbricenoi Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori, 2023

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Shimbori, Eduardo M., Whitfield, James B., Penteado-Dias, Angelica M., Shaw, Scott R., Boudreault, Caroline, Sones, Jayme, Perez, Kate, Brown, Allison, Manjunath, Ramya, Burns, John M., Hebert, P. D. N., Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2023, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Alphomelon Mason with the description of 30 new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), ZooKeys 1175, pp. 5-162 : 5

Alphomelon duvalierbricenoi Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori sp. nov.

Figs 30A-E , 95A

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Mundo Nuevo, Vado Miramonte, 10°46'18.30"N, 85°26'02.40"W, 305m; 27.III.2007; ex. Methionopsis ina ; coll. Jose Alberto Sanchez; Voucher code: DHJPAR0030806; Host voucher code: 07-SRNP-55789.

Paratypes. Costa Rica • 4 females, 1 male, CNC; CNC1180109, CNC1180011 (additional specimens in a gel capsule associated with that specimen), CNC1180117, CNC1180124, DHJPAR00002291.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (ACG).

Biology.

Gregarious, reared from Methionopsis ina .

DNA barcoding.

BINBOLD:AAB4029.

Etymology.

Named in honor of Sr. Duvalier Briceño in honor of his decades of teamwork in the ACG parataxonomist team.

Diagnostic description.

White patch on gena: extending to occiput and onto clypeus. Tegula/humeral complex color: white/yellow.

Mesonotum color: mostly dark brown to black. Metasoma color: mostly dark brown to black but with some laterotergites and sternites yellow. Tarsal claws spines: 2. Pterostigma shape: comparatively less elongate, its length ≤ 2.5 × its central height and usually more rounded with at least one of its lower margins curved. T1 sculpture: entirely to mostly smooth. T1 central ridge: faintly indicated by shallow depression/marked by weak carina. T2 sculpture: entirely to mostly smooth. Ovipositor sheaths length: longer than first segment of metatarsus. Body length: 3.1-3.4 mm. Fore wing length: 3.1-3.5 mm.

Figures

Figure 30. Alphomelon duvalierbricenoi Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori holotype female CNC 1180104 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D propodeum and metasoma, dorsal E mesosoma, dorsal.

Figure 95. Parasite cocoons A Alphomelon duvalierbricenoi 05 - SRNP- 24943 - DHJ 415451 B Alphomelon eldaarayae 05 - SRNP- 40812 - DHJ 436395.