Seticornuta carinata, Alvarado, 2022

Alvarado, Mabel, 2022, Darwin wasps of the genus Seticornuta Morley, 1913 (Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) in the Neotropical region, with a key to species, European Journal of Taxonomy 839, pp. 149-175 : 155-157

Seticornuta carinata sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

This species can be recognized by this combination of features: pronotum and mesoscutum black, and metapleuron three-sided with the dorsal margin evenly declivous.

Etymology

The specific epithet ‘ carinata ’ means ‘keeled’ in Latin.

Material examined

Holotype

BRAZIL • ♀; “S.J. [São José do] Barreiro, Serra da Bocaina Braz. [Brazil] 1650m XI-68 Alvarenga & Seabra ”; USUC.

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Body length 9.7 mm. Fore wing length 6.7 mm.

HEAD. Face+clypeus 1.1 × as wide as long; labrum not exposed when mandibles closed; malar space 0.7 × as long as basal mandibular width; lateral ocellus separated from compound eye by 1.5 × ocellar diameter; distance between ocelli 2.0 × maximum ocellar diameter; head posteriorly behind ocellar triangle concave; gena, in lateral view, 0.7 × as long as compound eye; occipital carina complete; antenna with 29 flagellomeres, ratio of length from second to fourth flagellomeres: 1.1:0.9:0.9, subapical flagellomere 1.0 × as long as centrally wide.

MESOSOMA. Epicnemial carina complete; metapleuron rectangular, dorsal margin weakly declivous and posteriorly evenly declivous, polished with few isolated setae; submetapleural carina smooth, anteriorly expanded into a conspicuous rounded lobe. Propodeum with lateromedian longitudinal carina strong, parallel; lateral longitudinal carina faint, complete; posterior transverse carina complete. Fore wing with Cu1a between Cu1b and 2m-cu 1.2 × as long as Cu1 between Rs&M and 1m-cu. Hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu1 sclerotized throughout.

METASOMA. Metasoma with tergite I 1.0 × as long as posteriorly wide, lateromedian carinae extending along length of tergite; tergite II 0.9 × as long as posteriorly wide; laterotergite II 0.7 × as long as wide, wedge-shaped, mesal edge convex; laterotergite III 0.8 × as long as wide, semicircular.

COLOR. Predominantly black except palpi, anterior third of tegula, meso- and metatibia basally, a band on basal quarter of mesobasitarsus, a band on basal third of metabasitarsus, and spurs of meso- and metatibia off-white; mesotarsomeres (except basal quarter of mesobasitarsus) testaceous; and proleg (except coxa) tawny; wings slightly infuscate.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

This species was collected in the Brazilian state of São Paulo ( Fig. 11A ), at the same locality and date as S. rufa sp. nov.

Figures

Fig. 2. Details of Seticornuta carinata sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USUC). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head, lateral view. C. Facial view D. Propodeum. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 10. Seticornuta spp. A–B. S. cortesi Porter, 1998, head. A. Facial view, head ventrally. B. Facial view, head dorsally. C. S. cuckoo sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USUC), metapleuron. D. S. nigroflava sp. nov., ♀, holotype (SEMC), metapleuron. E. S. carinata sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USUC), metapleuron. F. S. quilmes sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USNM). G. S. rufa sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USUC), metapleuron. H. S. muqui sp. nov., ♀, holotype (MUSM). I. S. curupira sp. nov., ♀, holotype (USUC), metapleuron. J. S. anchanchu sp. nov., metapleuron. K. S. flava sp. nov., ♀, holotype (NHMUK), metapleuron.

Fig. 11. Geographic distribution of species of Seticornuta Morley, 1913 in the Neotropical region.