Pseudophanerotoma paranaensis (Costa Lima, 1956)

Kittel, Rebecca N., 2018, A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Neotropics with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4486 (2), pp. 146-160 : 155-156

Pseudophanerotoma paranaensis (Costa Lima)

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Type species: Phanerotoma paranaensis Costa Lima, 1956: 221. Assigned to Pseudophanerotoma by Zettel, 1990: 166.

Types. BRAZIL: Co-type series. 4 ♂ Horto Florestral de Villa Velha , Paraná, Brazil. col. Eng . Agr. M. Vernalha, around April 1951, in the Escola Nacional de Agronomia , # 4.038, 4.039, 4.131, and 4.133, [not examined].

FRENCH GUIANA: Other material. 1 ♀, “ Guyane française, Saül, Mont Galbao, 670 m, 24.vi-6.vii. 2000, Malaise trap, rec Braet, Y.” ( MNHN), [examined].

Diagnosis. Pseudophanerotoma paranaensis can be distinguished from the other members of the genus by the pale mesoscutellum, the unicolourous head and carapace, as well as the black colour pattern of the mesosoma.

Description (female). Body measurements. Length of body 4.9 mm; ratio of length of antenna to body 1.0; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.9; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.2.

Head. Antenna with 46 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.5; ratio of length of third, fourth, and penultimate antennomere to width 5.0, 4.0, and 2.3, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 1.7; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 1.9; clypeus convex and punctate, with two teeth; ratio of malar space to base of mandible 0.9; face straight in lateral view, punctate; frons and vertex punctate; ratio of length of eye to temple in dorsal view 2.0; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:0.7:0.7:3.5.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli present; mesopleuron punctate; scutellar sulcus present, scrobiculate; mesoscutellum flat, punctate; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles present; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.6; ratio of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.0; ratio of length to width of hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia, and hind tarsus 2.4, 4.8, 5.9, and 13.0, respectively; ratio of posterior spur to basitarsus of hind leg 0.2; fore wing: SR-1 straight; 2-R1 absent; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.5; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 2.9; ratio of r:3-SR:SR-1 1.0:2.5:8.5; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:1.0:3.7.

Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.5; tergites costate; carapace without postero-lateral lobes; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.0:1.3.

Colour. Head orange; interocellar area black; antenna light brown; mesosoma orange with unique black pattern (mid lateral pronotum; along notauli; anterior and posterior end of mesopleuron; mesoscutellum; anterior and posterior end of propodeum); wings hyaline; wing venation, parastigma, and pterostigma light brown; fore and mid legs beige; hind leg beige with brown femora; carapace orange.

Distribution. This species is known from the Mt. Galbao, French Guiana and the type locality, Horto Florestal de Villa Velha, Paraná, Brazil.

Biology. Parasitoid of Olethreutes anthracana Forbes, 1951 ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ) ( Costa Lima, 1956).

Sequence data. GenBank accession numbers for this species are CO1 KJ472581 , Ef1α n/a, 28S KJ472713 .

Remarks. It appears that a holotype was not assigned when the species was described by Costa Lima. Only four (male) co-types have been mentioned. Here, I provide a detailed description of a female, which resembles the males based on the original description.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Pseudophanerotoma paranaensis, female, a—habitus lateral; b—head frontal; c—fore wing; scale bars a = 1.0 mm, b = 0.5 mm, c = 1.0 mm.

FIGURE 10. Distribution map of Pseudophanerotoma species. P. austini sp. nov. (yellow square), P. paranaensis (Costa Lima) (new material red square; type location red triangle) and P. thapsina (Walley) (new material blue square; type location blue triangle).