Conura leucotela ( Walker 1862 )

Brotto, Thales Renan De Aguiar & Tavares, Marcelo Teixeira, 2021, Review of the leucotela species-group of Conura (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) from Amazon rainforest, Zootaxa 4942 (3), pp. 409-427 : 413-415

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Conura leucotela ( Walker 1862)

Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D; 2A–C

Smiera leucotelus Walker, 1862: 181–182 . BRAZIL. Ega [Tefé].

Smicra leucotelus Walker : Ashmead, 1904: 252, 450 (misspelling)

Proctoceras leucotelus (Walker) : Kirby, 1883: 77 (combination).

Proctoceras leucotelum (Walker) : Dalla Torre, 1898: 370 (catalogue).

Proctoceras leucotelus (Walker) : Schmiedeknecht, 1909: 45 (catalogue); De Santis, 1980: 255 (catalogue).

Conura (Spilochalcis) leucotela (Walker) : Delvare, 1992: 267–268 (combination, lectotype designation); Noyes, 2019 (catalogue); Tavares, 2019 (online catalogue).

Redescription. FEMALE. Lectotype: length 9.2 mm.

Color. Body mainly black but dorsum of antennal scape to Fu2, mandible, most of coxae to femora, protarsus, and gaster brown ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ), and with following yellow: spots anterior to median ocellus ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 ), venter of antennal scape to Fu2, lower half of parascrobal area ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 ), side of lower face dorsally ( Figs 1A, B View FIGURE 1 ), clypeus ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 ), temple ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ), transversal stripe on posterior dorsal margin of pronotum ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ), continued laterally ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ), posterior margin of mesoscutum except medially ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ), tegula, axilla posteriorly, sublateral spots on posterior third of mesoscutellum ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ), upper area of femoral depression, acropleuron, lateral panel of axilla, apex of pro- and mesofemora, base of pro- and mesotibia, mesotarsus, ventrolateral spot on metafemur, upper strip on external and internal face of metafemur ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ), and Gt7+8 ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ). Wings hyaline, veins dark brown.

Head. Paratorular carina shorter than greatest diameter of antennal foramen; lower face with inconspicuous transverse raised strip below antennal foramen ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 : RS).

Mesosoma. Pronotal anterior furrow not delimited posteriorly by sharp margin ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ); mesoscutum median area with small and deep umbilicate foveae, interstices narrow giving sculpture an alveolate appearance ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ); mesoscutellum flat, basally without wide smooth and shiny transverse band, with median non-foveate strip restricted to basal third ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 : S), and diameter of foveae on disc 0.30–0.39× MOD, with interstice width mostly 0.3× diameter of foveae ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ); frenal carina forming sublateral lobes ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 , red dashed line); metascutellum with median fovea or impression; propodeum perpendicular to longitudinal axis of mesosoma ( Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 , 2C View FIGURE 2 ), anterior costula conspicuous laterally, inconspicuous medially ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 : ACP), median carina (anterior to posterior costula) about 0.2× median length of propodeum ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 : MCP), posterior costula conspicuous and reaching anterior half of propodeum ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 : PCP), adpetiolar area long, with median and submedian carinae ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 : AdA); metafemur with 13 teeth, basal tooth followed by a minute tooth; metasternum deeply concave, with median carina not raised as lamina.

Metasoma. Petiole not completely visible dorsally, very short, 0.10× as long as wide, basal lamina absent dorsally, present ventrally, submedian carinae absent, lateral carinae absent; Gs1 projected forward under metasternum so petiole attached to Gt1 dorsum; dorsally, Gt1–Gt5 about 0.8× as wide as long; Gt6 with posterior margin deeply emarginate ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 , red dashed line); Gt7+8 about 1.1× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined ( Fig. 2C View FIGURE 2 ).

MALE. Unknown.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution: BRAZIL (Amazonas: Tefé).

Remarks. Conura leucotela is known only from the lectotype, which is similar to C. pseudoleucotela in its perpendicular propodeum, extremely concave metasternum, very short petiole, anteriorly projected Gs1, and long Gt7+8. However, C. leucotela has an inconspicuous, transverse, raised strip below the antennal foramen ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 : RS) instead of a transverse carina in C. pseudoleucotela ( Fig. 5B View FIGURE 5 : TC), the posterior margin of Gt6 deeply emarginate ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 , red dashed line) instead of concave in C. pseudoleucotela ( Fig. 6C View FIGURE 6 , red dashed line), and Gt7+8 about 1.1× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined ( Fig. 2C View FIGURE 2 ) instead 0.7× in C. pseudoleucotela ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ).

Material Examined. LECTOTYPE ( NHMUK): Female, labeled: ‘ Ega [nowadays Brazil, Amazonas, Tefé] / 59 10’ ‘ Lectotype / Delvare’ ‘ Proctoceras leucotelus Walker / stood under this name in old B. M. Coll. C. Waterhouse’ ‘B.M. TYPE HYM. 5.509’ ‘ BMNHƐ #1414586 ’. The lectotype ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A–D, 2A–C) is damaged; it lacks the right antennal flagellum, left antennal Fu3 to clava, and the three apical right metatarsomeres. The left hind leg is glued on a card .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Chalcididae
Genus	Conura