Alphomelon nanosoma Deans, 2003

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1175.105068

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7BCD6CE-4E8C-4664-BBB9-F0D6CEB60FB4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C08B086-8F16-5D39-A60F-D428240924B3

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Alphomelon nanosoma Deans, 2003
status

 

Alphomelon nanosoma Deans, 2003 View in CoL View at ENA

Figs 52A-F View Figure 52 , 53A-F View Figure 53 , 54A-F View Figure 54 , 55A-G View Figure 55 , 56A-C View Figure 56 , 100B View Figure 100

Distribution.

Brazil (MT), Costa Rica (ACG), Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago.

Biology.

Gregarious, reared from Carystoides basoches , C. escalantei , C. hondura , C. orbius , Carystoides Burns01, Carystoides escalanteiDHJ02 on at least 10 palm species ( Arecaceae ). A previous host record, Cobalopsis sp. on Oryza latifolia ( Deans et al. 2003) could not be confirmed.

DNA barcoding.

BINBOLD:AAB9792.

Other specimens examined.

(83 females, 17 males, 1 sex unknown): CNC1802049, CNC1802050, CNC1802051, CNC1802052, CNC1802053, CNC1802054, CNC1802055, CNC1802056, CNC1802057, CNC1802058, CNC1802059, CNC1802060, CNC1802061, CNC1802062 (additional specimens in a gel capsule associated with that specimen), CNC1802063, CNC1802064, CNC1802065, DHJPAR0052916, CNC1802066, CNC1802067, CNC1802068, CNC1802069, CNC1802070, CNC1802071, CNC1802072, CNC1802073, CNC1802074, CNC1802075, CNC1802076, CNC1802077, CNC1802078, CNC1802079, DHJPAR0051812, CNC1802080, CNC1802081, CNC1802082, CNC1802083, CNC1802084, CNC1802085 (additional specimens in a gel capsule associated with that specimen), DHJPAR0054602, CNC1802086, CNC1802087, CNC1802088, CNC1802089, CNC1802090, CNC1802091, CNC1802092, CNC1802093, CNC1802094, CNC1802095, CNC1802096, DHJPAR0054600, CNC1802097, CNC1802098, CNC1802099, CNC1802100, CNC1802101 (additional specimens in a gel capsule associated with that specimen), CNC280519, CNCHYM 00042, CNCHYM 00038, CNCHYM 00039, CNCHYM 00040, CNCHYM 00041, CNC704368, CNC704369, CNC704370, CNC704371, CNC704372, CNC704373, CNC704374, CNC704375, CNC704376, CNC704377, CNC704378, CNC704379, CNC704380, CNC704381, CNC704382, CNC704383, CNC704384, CNC704385, CNC704386, CNC704387, CNC721027, CNC721028, CNC721029, CNC721030, CNC721031, CNC721032, CNC721033, CNC721034, CNC721035, CNC721036, CNC721037, CNC721038, CNC721039, CNC721040, CNC721041, CNC721042, CNC721043, CNC721044.

Notes.

Based on the material studied, A. nanosoma could include a complex of species (all comparatively of smaller size than most Alphomelon species). Pending the availability of more DNA barcodes from more specimens, especially from South America, we keep for now all known specimens within the same species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Alphomelon