Microchelonus cavei Papp, 2010

Papp, Jenő, 2016, First Survey Of The Neotropical Species Of Microchelonus Szépligeti With Descriptions Of Twenty-Five New Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 62 (3), pp. 217-344 : 244-245

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.62.3.217.2016

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BDD709-4059-841E-9CBC-FC17FC41F9A6

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scientific name

Microchelonus cavei Papp, 2010
status

 

Microchelonus cavei Papp, 2010

( Figs 128–132 View Figs 128–139 )

Microchelonuscavei Papp, 2010: 163 f, typelocality (sevenfemaletypes): Honduras, Olancho, Caracasmas; (onefemaletype:) CostaRica, Alajuela, Upala; typedepositories: female holotypeandfourfemaleparatypesinMZLU, threefemaleparatypesinHNHM.

Materialexamined – Femaleholotypeandsevenfemaleparatypes, theirtwolocalties

seeabove.

Emendated features to the original description (Papp l.c.) – f. Body (2.2–) 2.6–2.8 mm long. Penultimateflagellomere 1.7 timesaslongasbroad ( Fig. 128 View Figs 128–139 ). Headindorsalview transverse, 2–2.1 timesasbroadaslong, eye 3.1–3.2 timeslongerthantemple, templere- ceded ( Fig. 129 View Figs 128–139 ). Forewing: pterostigmawide, 2.1–2 timesaslongaswide, issuing r from (orjustproximallyfrom) itsmiddle, 1–R1 0.7 timesaslongaspterostigma ( Fig. 130 View Figs 128–139 ). Cara- pacebelly, 1.4–1.6 timesaslongasbroadposteriorly, areolate- rugose ( Fig. 131 View Figs 128–139 ). Carapace inlateralview 3(–2.9) timesaslongashighposteriorly ( Fig. 132 View Figs 128–139 , seearrows). Legsyellow, hindtibiadistallybrownish, trochanters (partly) whitish.

Distribution – CostaRica, Honduras.

Taxonomicposition – Inthekeytothefemale Microchelonuis species M. cavei runs to M. paululus (McComb) , see couplets 127 (126) – 129 (128) (cf.

Papp 2010: 165–166). Intheoriginaldescription M. cavei isalsorelatedto M. paululus (Papp l.c.).

139 = carapaceindorsalviewwithindicationofitssculpture.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Microchelonus

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