Zacremnops ekchuah Sharkey, 1990

Sharkey, Michael J., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Chapman, Eric G., Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Brown, Allison, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Naik, Suresh, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Milton, Megan, Hebert, Paul, Shaw, Scott R., Kittel, Rebecca N., Solis, M. Alma, Metz, Mark A., Goldstein, Paul Z., Brown, John W., Quicke, Donald L. J., Achterberg, C. van, Brown, Brian V. & Burns, John M., 2021, Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species, ZooKeys 1013, pp. 1-665 : 1

Zacremnops ekchuah Sharkey, 1990 Figure 27

Diagnosis.

There are no COI barcodes available for any of the six reared specimens; however, Z. ekchuah is the only species of Zacremnops that is entirely black. What appears to be this species is widespread in Mexico with southern records in Costa Rican Caribbean mid-elevation rain forest.

Host data. Specimens were reared from spilomeline cambids, i.e., Microthyris prolongalis , Microthyris prolongalisDHJ02, Pantographa suffusalis , and Syllepte amandoDHJ02 ( Crambidae ).

Material examined.

DHJPAR0057410, DHJPAR0052687, DHJPAR0015404, DHJPAR0015405, DHJPAR0015403, and DHJPAR0021168.

Figures

Figure 27. Zacremnops ekchuah.