Helava alticola Masner & Huggert, 1989

Talamas, Elijah J. & Masner, Lubomir, 2016, Revision of New World Helava Masner & Huggert (Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 53, pp. 1-24 : 8

Helava alticola Masner & Huggert

Figures 14-18 , 19-23

Helava alticola Masner & Huggert, 1989: 72 (original description. Species list); Vlug 1995: 26 (cataloged, type information).

Description.

Female body length: 1.00-1.29 mm (n=20). Male body length: 0.91-1.32 mm (n=21). Male antenna: apically clubbed. Number of antennomeres in male club: 4. Number of female clavomeres: 4. Setation of frons anterior to ocellar triangle: absent or sparsely present only along inner orbit of eye. Setation of vertex posterior to lateral ocellus: dense. Hyperoccipital carina: absent; continuous across vertex; indicated by lateral tubercules. Pronotum in dorsal view: present mostly as lateral shoulders; slightly collarlike. Dorsoventral band of dense setation on posterior part of lateral pronotum: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: dense. Width of dorsal mesopleuron in lateral view: about equal ventrally and dorsally to 1.5 times as wide ventrally. Longitudinal striation on dorsal mesopleuron: absent. Transepisternal line: present. Mesofurcal pit: present. Notaulus: absent. Rs+M in fore wing: nebulous. Wings: macropterous. Rs+M in hind wing: nebulous. Color of legs: brownish, yellowish brown. Foamy structures of lateral propodeum: larger than hairy metapleuron. Median tubercule on T2: absent. Setation of anterior T2: continuous across tergal midline. Lateral patch on T2: present. Foamy structures on S1: present at lateral margin of sternite. Transverse felt field on anterior S2: present. Shape of S2 in lateral view: broadly convex.

Diagnosis.

Helava alticola can be separated from species with large propodeal foamy structures by the evenly rounded form of S2 and the pattern of setation on the dorsal head: posterior to the ocelli the posterior vertex is densely setose, and anterior to the ocelli the upper frons is glabrous or with sparse setae only along the inner orbit of the eye.

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=12334

Material examined.

Holotype, female: COLOMBIA: Colombia , Caldas, 5.IV.1973, CNC494814 (deposited in CNCI) . Paratypes: (56 females, 33 males, 1 unsexed) COLOMBIA : 17 females, 15 males, CNC494557-494566, 494622-494633, 494663-494671, USNMENT00989213-00989214 (CNCI); USNMENT00989943 (USNM). ECUADOR : 37 females, 17 males, CNC494567-494568, 494571-494592, 494594-494621, 494672-494673 (CNCI). PERU : 2 females, CNC494569-494570 (CNCI). Other material: (115 females, 100 males) BOLIVIA: 1 female, 1 male, CNC494753, 494785 (CNCI). CHILE : 1 female, CNC424908 (CNCI). COLOMBIA : 92 females, 50 males, CNC424852-424894, 494506, 494634-494662, 494674, 494675-494703, 494705, 494727-494728, 494754-494765, 494767-494771, 494773-494781, 494784, 494794-494795, 494800-494803, 494806, 494807, 494809, 494810, USNMENT00989211 (CNCI). ECUADOR : 10 females, 35 males, CNC494593, 494704, 494706-494724, 494726, 494749-494752, 494766, 494772, 494778, 494783, 494786, 494788-494793, 494796-494799, 494804, 494805, 494808, 494811 (CNCI). VENEZUELA : 11 females, 14 males, CNC494725, 494729-494748, 494779, 494782, 494787, USNMENT00989212 (CNCI).

Figures

Figures 14 - 18. Helava alticola, female (USNMENT 00989211) 14 head and mesosoma, ventral view 15 head, dorsal view 16 mesosoma, lateral view 17 metasoma, lateral view 18 mesosoma, posterolateral view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 19 - 23. Helava alticola 19 female (USNMENT 00989211), head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 20 female holotype (CNC 494814), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 21 female holotype (CNC 494814), head, anterodorsal view 22 male (USNMENT 00989212), antenna, dorsal view 23 female (USNMENT 00989211), antenna, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.