Parapanteles masoni Austin and Dangerfield

Valerio, A. A., Whitfield, J. B. & Janzen, D. H., 2009, Review of world Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with description of fourteen new Neotropical species and the first description of the final instar larvae, Zootaxa 2084 (1), pp. 1-49 : 12-13

Parapanteles masoni Austin and Dangerfield

Figs. 4A, 4F

Parapanteles masoni Austin & Dangerfield, 1992: 6 : 45 –47.

Female (Additional descriptive features to Austin and Dangerfield’s original description).

Mesosoma. Propleuron with anterior edge nitid and remainder with punctate sculpture throughout its length; pronotum lateral area with anterior 1/3 with deep longitudinal and nitid grove, dorsal lateral groove with few smooth transversal ridges across its width and lower lateral groove but the latter with fewer and more thick than those present at dorsal groove, area between lateral grooves with nitid, dorsal edge with posterior edge with dense and confuse punctate sculpture, dorsal edge 1/4 and ventral edge 0.4 posterior edge height; scutellar groove with 11 narrow and well defined costulae; scutellum with big and confused punctate sculpture at anterior lateral 2/3 of its length, medial area with very sparse punctate sculpture an essentially nitid, lateral area with big and well defined costulate sculpture slightly narrower at anterior 1/5; axilla through mesonotum with transversal ridges that reach across 1/2 of its width, transversal ridges are divided at mid length by one carina, remainder axilla nitid; metanotum mainly nitid and subrectangular in shape, mid posterior costulae with two lateral depressions at posterior 1/2 and with remainder of area with few smooth rugulose sculpture.

Wing. Hyaline, forewing with veins r and C+SC+R yellowish brown and pterostigma, remainder of veins whitish yellow; hind wing veins whitish yellow.

Legs. Fore telotarsus shorter than fore basitarsus, fore telotarsus with a long hooklike setae at internolateral area of it.

Material examined. Holotype, female, “[ Australia], Finniss Riv. Stn., N. T., coll. 17 July 1986, [Col.] C. Wilson, on leaf Mimosa pigra [L. ( Fabaceae )].” Paratype: one male with same data as holotype .

Comments. All material deposited at ANIC. This is the only known species for the genus Parapanteles to be described and recorded from the Australian continent.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Parapanteles masoni Austin & Dangerfield fore telotarsus (A) and pronotum in dorsal view (F); fore telotarsus structure of P. tessares n. sp. (B), P. sicpolus n. sp. (C), P. mariae n. sp. (D), P. scotti n. sp. (E), P. aletiae (Riley) (G), P. paradoxus (Muesebeck) (H), and P.rarus n. sp. (I). The arrows in these figures point to the different setae on the fore telotarsus.