. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a

April 10, 2018

. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a folded, transparent, semi esclerotized area); with no pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width at most 2.0 ?posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction) or anterior width 3.0?.0 ?posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction) (?). Ovipositor sheaths length/FevipiprantMedChemExpress NVP-QAW039 metatibial length: 0.6?.7 or 0.8?.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.7?.9. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.1?1.3. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.7?.8. QAW039MedChemExpress NVP-QAW039 Pterostigma length/width: 3.6 or more. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled. Male. Similar to female. Molecular data. Sequences in BOLD: 1, barcode compliant sequences: 0 (the only available sequence is 419 bp). Biology/ecology. Gregarious. Host: Hesperiidae, Polythrix kanshul. Distribution. Costa Rica, ACG. Comments. Despite the single lot of specimens available (98-SRNP-6601 was parasitized by the same species but rearing maltreatment killed the wasps in their cocoons), the distinctive wasp morphology, distinctive host, and distinctive, though short, barcode make it clear that this is a species different from all others considered here. Etymology. We dedicate this species to Mariano Pereira recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Paratax omos and Estaci Biol ica La Perla of Sector Mundo Nuevo.Jose L. Fernandez-Triana et al. / ZooKeys 383: 1?65 (2014)Apanteles mariatorrentesae Fern dez-Triana, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/7E27B624-A30F-4C34-84BA-FEA0C36748E3 http://species-id.net/wiki/Apanteles_mariatorrentesae Fig. 29 Type locality. COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Puente Rio Negro, 340m, 10.90376, -85.30274. Holotype. in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0043137. 2. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Puente Rio Negro, 27.iii.2011, 10.90376, -85.30274, 340m, DHJPAR0043137. 3. Voucher: D.H.Janzen W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservaci Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 11-SRNP-41455. Paratypes. 1 (NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0043139. Description. Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.5?.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.7?.8 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.9?.1. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4?.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0?.2. Tarsal claw.. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a folded, transparent, semi esclerotized area); with no pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width at most 2.0 ?posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction) or anterior width 3.0?.0 ?posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction) (?). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.6?.7 or 0.8?.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.7?.9. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.1?1.3. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.7?.8. Pterostigma length/width: 3.6 or more. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled. Male. Similar to female. Molecular data. Sequences in BOLD: 1, barcode compliant sequences: 0 (the only available sequence is 419 bp). Biology/ecology. Gregarious. Host: Hesperiidae, Polythrix kanshul. Distribution. Costa Rica, ACG. Comments. Despite the single lot of specimens available (98-SRNP-6601 was parasitized by the same species but rearing maltreatment killed the wasps in their cocoons), the distinctive wasp morphology, distinctive host, and distinctive, though short, barcode make it clear that this is a species different from all others considered here. Etymology. We dedicate this species to Mariano Pereira recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Paratax omos and Estaci Biol ica La Perla of Sector Mundo Nuevo.Jose L. Fernandez-Triana et al. / ZooKeys 383: 1?65 (2014)Apanteles mariatorrentesae Fern dez-Triana, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/7E27B624-A30F-4C34-84BA-FEA0C36748E3 http://species-id.net/wiki/Apanteles_mariatorrentesae Fig. 29 Type locality. COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Puente Rio Negro, 340m, 10.90376, -85.30274. Holotype. in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0043137. 2. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Puente Rio Negro, 27.iii.2011, 10.90376, -85.30274, 340m, DHJPAR0043137. 3. Voucher: D.H.Janzen W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservaci Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 11-SRNP-41455. Paratypes. 1 (NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0043139. Description. Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.5?.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.7?.8 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.9?.1. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4?.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0?.2. Tarsal claw.