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Image of <i>Notiospathius larensis</i> López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón
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Notiospathius larensis López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón

Description

provided by Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Female. Colour: Head brown; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape and pedicel light brown; flagellomeres brown, apical 10 white (broken); palpi white. Mesonotum brown to dark brown; propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black, brown apically; second metasomal tergite dark brown with a light brown basal semicircular area; third and fourth metasomal tergites brown; remaining metasomal tergites brown to light brown, ovipositor and sheaths brown to honey yellow, ovipositor apex strongly sclerotized, black. Fore and middle coxae white; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; fore femur light brown; middle femur brown; fore and middle tibia and tarsi light brown; hind coxa dark brown; trochanter and trochantellus honey yellow; femur honey yellow at basal first third, apical two thirds dark brown; tibia brown; tarsi dark brown. Wings dusky, veins and tegula honey yellow; stigma yellow at basal third, dark brown apically. Body length: 4.2 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 3.3 mm. Head: Clypeus straite-rugose; face striate; frons rugose; vertex rugose-striate; temple weakly striate dorsally, gena smooth; eye 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space almost 0.4 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 3 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape less than 1.5 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 30 flagellomeres (broken). Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum striate dorsally, slightly rugose ventrally; pronotal groove, wide and scrobiculate; propleuron striate; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally; median mesoscutal lobe coriaceous anteromedially, remaining area striate-rugose; notauli scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring in a longitudinally striate-rugose area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus discontinuous, both deep and narrow; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, including subalar area, rugose-coriaceous antero-ventrally, coriaceous ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron striate; propodeum longitudinally striate; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma three times its maximum width; vein r 0.5 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU 0.4 times length of vein 1M. Legs: fore tibia with a row of at least seven spines; hind coxa striate, with a distinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora slightly striate. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly rugose anteriorly, costate with rugose microsculpture medially and posteriorly, length three times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite striate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and straight; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.6 times length of metasoma. Male.Unknown
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E. Karen López-Estrada, G. Rosa Briceño, M. Alex Smith, Juliano Fiorelini Nunes, Angélica M. Penteado-Dias, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Hans Clebsch, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón
bibliographic citation
López-Estrada E, Briceño G, Smith M, Juliano Fiorelini Nunes , Penteado-Dias A, Ceccarelli F, Clebsch H, Zaldívar-Riverón A (2012) Seven new species of Notiospathius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) from Northwest Venezuela Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29: 37–62
author
E. Karen López-Estrada
author
G. Rosa Briceño
author
M. Alex Smith
author
Juliano Fiorelini Nunes
author
Angélica M. Penteado-Dias
author
Fadia Sara Ceccarelli
author
Hans Clebsch
author
Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón

Description

provided by Journal of Hymenoptera Research (archived)
Female. Colour: Head brown; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape and pedicel light brown; flagellomeres brown, apical 10 white (broken); palpi white. Mesonotum brown to dark brown; propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black, brown apically; second metasomal tergite dark brown with a light brown basal semicircular area; third and fourth metasomal tergites brown; remaining metasomal tergites brown to light brown, ovipositor and sheaths brown to honey yellow, ovipositor apex strongly sclerotized, black. Fore and middle coxae white; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; fore femur light brown; middle femur brown; fore and middle tibia and tarsi light brown; hind coxa dark brown; trochanter and trochantellus honey yellow; femur honey yellow at basal first third, apical two thirds dark brown; tibia brown; tarsi dark brown. Wings dusky, veins and tegula honey yellow; stigma yellow at basal third, dark brown apically. Body length: 4.2 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 3.3 mm. Head: Clypeus straite-rugose; face striate; frons rugose; vertex rugose-striate; temple weakly striate dorsally, gena smooth; eye 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space almost 0.4 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 3 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape less than 1.5 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 30 flagellomeres (broken). Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum striate dorsally, slightly rugose ventrally; pronotal groove, wide and scrobiculate; propleuron striate; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally; median mesoscutal lobe coriaceous anteromedially, remaining area striate-rugose; notauli scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring in a longitudinally striate-rugose area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus discontinuous, both deep and narrow; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, including subalar area, rugose-coriaceous antero-ventrally, coriaceous ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron striate; propodeum longitudinally striate; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma three times its maximum width; vein r 0.5 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU 0.4 times length of vein 1M. Legs: fore tibia with a row of at least seven spines; hind coxa striate, with a distinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora slightly striate. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly rugose anteriorly, costate with rugose microsculpture medially and posteriorly, length three times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite striate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and straight; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.6 times length of metasoma. Male.Unknown
license
cc-by-3.0
copyright
E. Karen López-Estrada, G. Rosa Briceño, M. Alex Smith, Juliano Fiorelini Nunes, Angélica M. Penteado-Dias, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Hans Clebsch, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón
bibliographic citation
López-Estrada E, Briceño G, Smith M, Juliano Fiorelini Nunes , Penteado-Dias A, Ceccarelli F, Clebsch H, Zaldívar-Riverón A (2012) Seven new species of Notiospathius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) from Northwest Venezuela Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29: 37–62
author
E. Karen López-Estrada
author
G. Rosa Briceño
author
M. Alex Smith
author
Juliano Fiorelini Nunes
author
Angélica M. Penteado-Dias
author
Fadia Sara Ceccarelli
author
Hans Clebsch
author
Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón