Pseudophanerotoma austini, Kittel, 2018

Kittel, Rebecca N., 2018, A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Neotropics with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4486 (2), pp. 146-160 : 154-155

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AB64D470-D117-45C4-9FCD-ACF4A9CBD1C9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951994

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB8211-BF74-5E19-19B8-74823C759A99

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Plazi

scientific name

Pseudophanerotoma austini
status

sp. nov.

Pseudophanerotoma austini sp. nov.

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Holotype. GUATEMALA: 1 ♂, “ Guatemala, Peten Parq Nac Tikal, 17.24030—89.62202 +/- 50m, 270 m, 22/05/ 2009, Llama Wa B- 05-2-02 ” ( USNM).

Diagnosis. The small size of 3.5 mm and the number of antennomeres (33) distinguishes this species from all other Pseudophanerotoma species.

Description (male). Body measurements. Length of body 3.5 mm; ratio of length of antenna to body 1.2; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.8; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.2.

Head. Antenna with 33 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.2; ratio of length of third, fourth, and penultimate antennomere to width 3.7, 3.0, and 1.3, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 2.0; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 2.0; clypeus convex and smooth, with two teeth; ratio of malar space to base of mandible 0.9; face straight in lateral view and punctate; frons and vertex finely rugose; ratio of length to temple of eye in dorsal view 1.9; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:0.6:0.9:2.3.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum finely rugose; notauli weakly present; mesopleuron finely rugose; scutellar sulcus present, rugose; mesoscutellum flat, finely rugose; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles absent; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.7; ratio of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.1; ratio of length to width of hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia, and hind tarsus 2.0, 2.1, 4.0, and 11.2, respectively; ratio of posterior spur to basitarsus of hind leg 0.2; fore wing: SR-1 straight; 2-R1 absent; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.5; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 3.3; ratio of r:3-SR:SR-1 1.0:1.0:6.0; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:1.1:2.4.

Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.5; first and second tergites costate, third tergite rugose; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.0:1.2.

Colour. Head whitish beige; interocellar area black; antenna beige; mesosoma white ventrally, dorsal beige with black pattern (anterior side of pronope; tegula; lateral lobes of mesoscutum; posterior end of scutellum; posterior end of propodeum); wings hyaline; wing venation brown to dark brown; parastigma light brown; pterostigma dark brown; fore and mid legs with white coxae and femorae, otherwise beige; hind coxa white, otherwise beige; carapace orange with dark brown pattern.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. This species is only known from the type locality, Parque Nacional Tikal in Petén, Guatemala.

Etymology. The species is named in honour of Professor Andy Austin, The University of Adelaide.

Biology. Unknown.

Sequence data. GenBank accession numbers for this species are CO1 KJ472583 View Materials , Ef1α KJ472637 View Materials , 28S

KJ472715 View Materials .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

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