Orasema hyarimai Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018

Burks, Roger A., Heraty, John M., Dominguez, Chrysalyn & Mottern, Jason L., 2018, Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae), Zootaxa 4401 (1), pp. 1-107 : 52-53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4401.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CE7364CD-1A9E-45F2-ABA1-FB574F03BCBE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966303

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B705F11-A9B1-47D8-9D2B-E9F310CC45EF

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:9B705F11-A9B1-47D8-9D2B-E9F310CC45EF

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Orasema hyarimai Burks, Heraty & Dominguez
status

sp. nov.

Orasema hyarimai Burks, Heraty & Dominguez n. sp.

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9B705F11-A9B1-47D8-9D2B-E9F310CC45EF ( Figs 89–96 View FIGURES 89–94 View FIGURES 95–96 )

Diagnosis. Mesoscutal midlobe, axilla, and mesoscutellum mostly areolate. Mesoscutellar disc long and narrow, more than 1.2× as long as broad. Axillula areolate. Propodeal disc not reticulate sublaterally.

This species is very generalized in appearance, but differs from most others in having a narrow mesoscutellum ( Figs 92, 93 View FIGURES 89–94 ). From O. qincha it differs in having areolate mesoscutal sidelobes.

Description. Female. Length 2.5–2.6 mm.

Color: Head and mesosoma blue green. Pedicel yellow; anellus brownish yellow; flagellum brown. Coxae brown with metallic luster dorsally, becoming yellow ventrally; fore and mid femora brownish; legs otherwise yellow. Fore wing hyaline; venation pale brown. Petiole blue-green; gaster brown with purple luster.

Head: Head width:head height 1.1; face reticulate; longitudinal groove between eye and torulus present; eyes bare, inter-ocular distance:eye height 1.3; malar space:eye height 0.7; supraclypeal area longer than broad, smooth ventrally, weakly sculptured dorsally and laterally; clypeus smooth to weakly sculptured. Flagellum length:head height 1.4–1.5; F2 2.6–2.9× as long as broad, 1.3× as long as F3; following funiculars subequal in width, successively shorter.

Mesosoma: Mesosoma length:height 1.4–1.5. Mesoscutal midlobe mostly areolate with a few areolatereticulate areas, with minute setae; lateral lobe areolate. Axilla areolate to areolate-reticulate; mesoscutellar disc areolate-reticulate anteriorly, becoming areolate posteriorly; frenal line irregularly foveate; frenum areolatereticulate; axillular groove anteriorly narrow, broad and foveate posteriorly; axillula areolate. Propodeum with irregular median carina; propodeal disc areolate; callus areolate-reticulate, with 3–5 setae. Mesepisternum areolatereticulate laterally and ventrally, broadly rounded anterior to mid coxa. Upper mesepimeron smooth; lower mesepimeron areolate-reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum laterally smooth to areolatereticulate. Hind coxa 2.3–2.34× as long as broad, reticulate dorsally, becoming smooth ventrally; hind femur 5.57– 6× as long as broad. Fore wing 2.5–2.56× as long as broad, 2.9–4.2× as long as mesothorax; stigma with 4 sensilla separated into pairs. Hind wing costal cell with a broad bare area.

Metasoma: Petiole 2.3–2.5× as long as broad, 0.9× as long as hind coxa, areolate-reticulate, anterior carina moderate. Antecostal sulcus crossed by minute carinae; acrosternite posteriorly rounded.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Trinidad.

Material examined. Holotype: TRINIDAD: St. George : El Tucuche S. slope, 10°44'00"N, 61°25'00"W, 25.vii.1976, J.S. Noyes, rainforest [1 ♀, UCRCENT00309434 ], deposited in BMNH GoogleMaps . Paratypes: Arima; Simla Research Station , at station, 250m, 10°41'34"N, 61°17'23"W, 24–25.vii.2013, C. Weirauch, yellow pan trap [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00448216 ] GoogleMaps . El Tucuche S. slope, 10°44'00"N, 61°25'00"W, 25.vii.1976, J.S. Noyes, rainforest [1 ♀, BMNH: UCRCENT00309435].

Etymology. Named after the 17th century Nepuyo chieftan Hyarima, a military leader who was highly respected by both Dutch and Spanish forces in Trinidad.

UCRC

University of California, Riverside

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eucharitidae

Genus

Orasema

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