Digonocryptus sautatus Aguiar et Ramos, 2011

Aguiar, Alexandre Pires & Ramos, Adriana C. B., 2011, 2846, Zootaxa 2846, pp. 1-98 : 59-60

Digonocryptus sautatus Aguiar et Ramos , sp. nov.

Figs 77, 78, 172

Description. Holotype FEMALE. Fore wing 8.9 mm.

Head. Ventral tooth of mandible as long as dorsal tooth. Clypeus apical area delimited by smooth border; clypeal margin with one tooth. Antenna with 25 flagellomeres; white band starting at flagellomere V; 9 flagellomeres at least 50% white.

Mesosoma . Pronotum latero-ventrally with weak transverse strigation. Mesopleuron strigate, glabrous or almost so; mesepimeron, carinal triangle, lower metapleuron and propodeum behind anterior transverse carina covered with dense white pilosity, hairs longest on propodeum. Subalar prominence oval, smooth, centrally rounded. Sternaulus deep, crenulated. Sulcus between sternaulus and scrobe absent. Posterior transverse carina of mesosternum imperfectly developed medially (as a wrinkle). Lower metapleuron finely and densely rugulose. Propodeum: area in front of anterior transverse carina glabrous, mostly smooth, medially with vestiges of two diverging ridges. Propodeal apophyses present as subtle scale-like widening of the complete posterior transverse carina. Area between anterior and posterior transverse carinae longitudinally densely rugulose; area behind posterior carina finely and approximately transversely rugulose. Fore wing vein 3-Cu 1.41 length of 4-Cu.

Metasoma. Postpetiole medio-anteriorly with shallow, weak concavity; dorsolateral and median dorsal carinae absent; petiolar spiracles in dorsal view not prominent. Ovipositor 1.21 length of hind tibia. Apex of lower valve with 13 teeth.

Color. Head and mesosoma main color black, all with pale yellow areas; T3–8 light orange. Lateral pattern as in Fig. 77. Orbital band briefly interrupted at malar space only; width on supra-antennal area, temple and dorsal part of gena about 0.2 of interocular distance, covering most of ventral half of gena, but clearly not reaching occipital carina, dorsally tapering ( Fig. 77). Mandible basally with small yellow spot. Clypeus main area pale yellow; apical area and clypeal suture laterally, black; supraclypeal area pale yellow, except narrowly black from parantennal impression to midpoint between torulus. Mesosoma ( Fig. 77) with large, medial, slightly ventral, yellow area. Pronotum dorsally along anterior margin, almost reaching apex of lateral corner, with wide yellow stripe of uniform width; antero-laterally on dorsal margin with large yellow spot. Propleuron apparently entirely black (covered by head on specimen). Scutellum and postscutellum entirely yellow. Propodeum as in Figs 77–78, entirely black. Fore and mid coxae pale yellow, mesally brown, latero-apically with small brown spot; fore and mid trochanters pale yellow with small light brown marks; hind coxa, trochanter, trochantellus and femur light orange, femur apex dark brown; fore and mid femora mesally pale yellow, basal 0.1 pale orange, otherwise dark brown; fore and mid tibia yellow; hind tibia deep yellow; fore and mid tarsi dark brown, each tarsomere apical margin yellowish, mid t1 progressively more yellowish from apex to base; hind tarsus changing progressively from t1 basally deep yellow to t5 entirely pale yellow. Metasoma lateral pattern as in Fig. 77; T 1 centrally dark brown, basally and apically pale yellow; T2–8 light orange.

Morphological variation. Unknown.

MALE. Unknown.

Comments. Isolated from other species of the D. diversicolor complex by having the mesopleuron glabrous or almost so, with a large central yellow spot covering nearly half its area. On both right and left fore wings, there is a small stub of nebulous vein originating at the exact meeting of veins M and Rs ( Fig. 172), which, if not mere individual variation, is characteristic of D. sautatus . The hind t5 white is also characteristic, representing an unique occurrence within the D. diversicolor complex.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♀ [D01] “Camp Sautata// RioAtrato.Colom.// XI.12–XII.14. 67” [date, except year, manually stricken out]; “mespl. spot// clyp. 1 tooth” [“ Digonocryptus sp. 31” of Townes] ( AEIC). Left fore tarsus missing, otherwise in good shape.

Distribution. Colombia.