Amputoearinus alafumidus Lindsay & Sharkey, 2006

Sharkey, Michael J., Baker, Austin, McCluskey, Kathryn, Smith, Alex, Naik, Suresh, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Sones, Jayme, D'Souza, Michelle, Jacques, Brianne St., Hebert, Paul, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2021, ? Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records, ZooKeys 1075, pp. 77-136 : 77

? Amputoearinus alafumidus Lindsay & Sharkey, 2006

Diagnostics.

Figure 8 .

BOLD data.

There is no BIN for this specimen because the barcode is too short to merit a BIN code. The short barcode follows:

ATATTTATTTAATTTTTGGAATTTGATCAGG-ATTTTAGGATTATCAATAAGAATAATTATTCGTATAGAATTAAGAATGGGGGGAAATTTTATTGGTAATGATCAAATTTATAATAGAATTGTT-CTGCTCATGCATTTATTATAATTTTTTTTAAAGTTATACCAATTATAATTGGAGGATTTGGAAATTGATTAATTCCTTTAATATTAGGGGGCCCAGAAAAAGCTTTCCCCCGAATAAATAATATAAAATTTTGAT

Morphological data.

This specimen was identified based on morphological criteria from the key in Lindsay and Sharkey (2006).

Reared specimen:?: Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Del Oro, Puente Mena, 280 m, 11.04562 -85.45742; host caterpillar collection date: 11/07/2007, parasitoid eclosion: 27/07/2007; depository CNC, voucher code: DHJPAR0028287.

Reared specimens host data: Dysodia spissicornis ( Thyrididae ) a leaf-roller feeding on Heisteria concinna ( Olacaceae ), caterpillar voucher code: 07-SRNP-22487.

Note.

This is the first host record for this wasp genus.

Figures

Figure 8. Amputoearinus alafumidus, holotype.