Doryctopambolus clebschi Zaldivar-Riveron & Martinez

Nunes, Juliano Fiorelini, Zaldivar-Riveron, Alejandro, Castro, Clovis Sormus de, Marsh, Paul M., Penteado-Dias, Angelica Maria, Briceno, Rosa & Martinez, Juan Jose, 2012, Doryctopambolus Nunes & Zaldivar-Riveron (Braconidae), a new neotropical doryctine wasp genus with propodeal spines, ZooKeys 223, pp. 53-67 : 58-59

Doryctopambolus clebschi Zaldivar-Riveron & Martinez sp. n. Figures 3 A–C

Diagnosis.

Doryctopambolus clebschi is morphologically similar to Doryctopambolus dominicanus sp. n. However, Doryctopambolus clebschi differs from the latter species by having the face smooth medially and slightly rugose laterally (entirely rugose in Doryctopambolus dominicanus sp. n.), mesopleuron mostly smooth (mostly smooth-rugose), first metasomal tergite mostly smooth apically (mostly sculptured apically), and second metasomal tergite mostly smooth, slightly costate baso-laterally (costate basally). These two species distinguish from the remaining two described species of Doryctopambolus , Doryctopambolus pilcomayensis comb. n. and Doryctopambolus sarochensis sp. n., by having the vertex smooth (always sculptured in the latter two species), first metasomal tergite distinctly petiolate (not petiolate), and second metasomal tergite partially smooth (always entirely sculptured).

Description.

Female. Body length 2.8 mm; fore wing 2.3 mm; ovipositor 1.7 mm. Colour: head brown, antennae brown, turning honey yellow to apex, palpi yellow; mesosoma and first metasomal tergites brown, second metasomal tergite honey yellow, remaining metasomal tergites light brown; wings hyaline; veins and stigma light brown; legs light brown to honey yellow; ovipositor and sheaths light brown to brown, apex strongly sclerotised and dark. Head: antenna with 16-17 antennomeres; eyes small, ovoid and setose; face smooth and glabrous medially, slightly rugose and pilose laterally, median area not swollen; clypeus slightly rugose; malar space 0.4 times eye height; frons and vertex smooth; temple in dorsal view 2.7 times eye width. Mesosoma: 1.8 times longer its maximum height; pronotum rugose laterally; pronotal groove wide and scrobiculate; propleuron slightly rugose; mesoscutal lobes entirely smooth and polished, sparsely pilose; notauli wide, deep and scrobiculate, meeting before scutellum in a longitudinally costate area; scutellum smooth, sparsely setose; scutellar sulcus with three parallel carinae; height of scutellar sulcus 0.8 times height of scutellar disc; subalar sulcus wide and scrobiculate, joining mesopleural sulcus, remaining area of mesopleuron mostly smooth and polished, slightly rugose near mesopleural sulcus; venter of mesopleuron smooth; propodeum with one pair of long and sharp apico-lateral projections, shorter than first flagellomere. Legs: hind coxa mostly smooth, slightly rugose ventrally. Wings: fore wing length 3.6 times its maximum width, r:3RS:3RSb = 2:3:10; 2RS:3RSa:r-m = 4:3:2; m-cu arising antefurcal with vein 2RS; 1cu-a interstitial with 1M; hind wing vein M + CU about equal length of vein 1M. Metasoma: length of first metasomal tergum 1.5 times its apical width, apical width about 2.3 times basal width, first metasomal tergite costate basally and medially, smooth apically; second metasomal tergite mostly smooth and polished, slightly costate baso-laterally; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.5 times length of tergum; ovipositor about 1.1 times longer than metasoma.

Variation. Females. Body length 2.6-2.8 mm.

Males. Unknown.

Material examined.

Holotype. Female (CNIN IB-UNAM). Dominican Republic: A. Bermudez NP, La Ciénega, Telostablones, 19.066°N, 70.863°W, 15-16-IX-2009, sweep, H. Clebsch col. (DNA voucher no. CNIN370; GenBank accession number JN870294). Paratype. One female (CNIN IB-UNAM), same data as holotype.

Distribution.

Dominican Republic.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour to our good friend and colleague Hans Clebsch, who collected the specimens assigned to this species.