Prasmodon eminens Nixon, 1965

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Braet, Yves, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2014, Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 37, pp. 1-52 : 18-19

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scientific name

Prasmodon eminens Nixon, 1965
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Prasmodon eminens Nixon, 1965 Figs 95 View Figure 94–95 , 97 View Figures 40–45

Prasmodon eminens Nixon, 1965: 206.

Type locality.

PERU: Chanchamayo.

Holotype.

♂, NHM (not examined).

Material examined.

8 ♀, 18 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBio, INHS, NMNH), Costa Rica, ACG; 2 ♂ (CNC), Ecuador, Pichincha, Rio Palenque, 160-200m.

Description.

Female. Body length 4.9-5.0 mm, 5.1-5.2 mm, rarely 5.3-5.4 mm. Fore wing length 5.1-5.2 mm, 5.3-5.4 mm, rarely 5.5-5.6 mm. Body color: mesosoma entirely yellow-orange (with the exception of a very small black spot on axillar complex), metasoma with only small brown areas centrally on mediotergites 4-7 (usually only on mediotergires 5-6) ( Fig. 95 View Figure 94–95 ). Scape color: partially dark brown to black. Flagellomeres color: most flagellomeres brown to black, except for small apical area (F15-16, and occasionally apical half of F14) which is yellow-brown. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Mesotibia color: posterior 0.1-0.2 dark brown to black. Metatibia color: posterior 0.1-0.3 dark brown to black ( Fig. 95 View Figure 94–95 ). Metatibia spurs color: dark brown to black. Metatarsus color: dark brown to black (except for anterior 0.7 or less of first metatarsomere) ( Fig. 95 View Figure 94–95 ). Fore wing color pattern: uniformly and entirely infumate (except for small hyaline area near veins (RS+M)b and 2M). Fore wing veins color: all veins dark brown ( Fig. 95 View Figure 94–95 ). Pterostigma color: entirely dark brown. Hypostomal carina: not raised. Scutoscutellar sulcus: with 5 impressions or with 6 impressions. Areolet height÷vein r length (fore wing): 0.2 ×. Hind wing subbasal cell: mostly without setae. Hind tarsal claws: with pectination uniform, teeth thick and relatively evenly spaced. Shape of mediotergite 1: distinctly narrowing posteriorly, width at posterior margin clearly less than width at anterior margin and median width ( Fig. 95 View Figure 94–95 ). Mediotergite 1 length÷width at posterior margin 4.1-4.5 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin÷length: 3.1-3.5 x, rarely 2.6-3.0 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.5 × as long as metatibia or 0.6 × as long as metatibia.

Male. As female but with flagellomeres fully dark brown to black.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 67, barcode compliant sequences: 61 ( Fig. 105 View Figure 105 ).

Biology and ecology.

Hosts: Crambidae , Anarmodia nebulosalis , Asturodes fimbriauralis DHJ02, Bocchoris marucalis , Ceratocilia sixolalis , Desmia Janzen07, Desmia Solis19, Eulepte concordalis , Eulepte Janzen12, Eulepte Solis15, Mimophobetron pyropsalis , Omiodes fulvicauda , Omiodes humeralis , Pantographa suffusalis , Parastenia retractalis , Phostria mapetalis , Piletosoma thialis , Portentomorpha xanthialis , and Syllepte amando DHJ02.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in rain forest in northern South America and Central America, including Brazil ( Mardulyn and Whitfield 1999), Costa Rica, ACG rain forest ( Valerio et al. 2005), Ecuador (this paper), and Peru ( Nixon 1965).

Comments.

This species was described by Nixon (1965) based on one male specimen. Valerio et al. (2005) extensively illustrated the species, including the cocoon and adults, but until now no detailed description of the female was available. DNA barcodes were made available recently by Smith et al. (2013). Host records are considerably expanded here, based on new data from the ongoing inventory of ACG parasitoids. Valerio et al. (2005) mentioned that this species shows some regional morphological variation and might well represent a complex of sibling species. Since we were not able to examine the holotype, or DNA barcode it, we infer from its morphological description that the ACG Prasmodon eminens is the same species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Prasmodon

Loc

Prasmodon eminens Nixon, 1965

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Braet, Yves, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H. 2014
2014
Loc

Prasmodon eminens

Nixon 1965
1965