Furcidentia tikalensis, Kittel, 2018

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 : 151-152

Furcidentia tikalensis sp. nov.

( Figs 3 a–d , 9 )

Holotype. GUATEMALA: 1 ♀, “ Guatemala, Peten Parq Nac Tikal, 17.24030—89.62202 +/- 50m, 270 m, 22/05/ 2009, Llama Wa B- 05-2-02 ” ( USNM).

Diagnosis. This species differs from all other members of the genus by not having clypeal teeth, being smaller than 3.0 mm, and having a length of eye to length of temple ratio of 3.0.

Description (female). Body measurements. Length of body 2.3 mm; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.9; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.1.

Head. Antenna incomplete with 21 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.0; ratio of length of third and fourth antennomere to width 3.0 and 2.0, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 1.8; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 1.0; clypeus convex and fine rugose; without clypeal teeth; ratio of malar space to base of mandible 1.2; face weakly convex in lateral view and rugose; frons and vertex rugose; ratio of length of eye to temple in dorsal view 3.0; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:1.5:1.3:3.0.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli present; mesopleuron rugose; scutellar sulcus present, rugose; mesoscutellum flat, rugose; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles absent; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.7; ratio of length to width of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.2; ratio of length of hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia, and hind tarsus 2.0, 4.2, 4.0, and 10.0, respectively; ratio of posterior spur to hind basitarsus 0.2; fore wing: SR-1 straight; 2-R1 present, ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of 2-R1 5.0; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.3; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 3.3; ratio of r:3-SR:SR-1 1.0:0.6:5.0; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:0.6:2.3.

Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.7; tergites costate; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:0.8:0.9; postero-lateral tip of carapace blunt.

Colour. Head orange; interocellar area black; base of antenna beige, gradually more orange towards the tip; mesosoma orange, lateral lobe of mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, and propodeum light brown; wings slightly infuscate beneath pterostigma; wing venation, parastigma, and pterostigma light brown; fore and mid legs white with beige colouration on posterior end of femora and tibiae; hind leg white with brown femur and brown posterior mark of tibia; first metasomal tergite beige; second metasomal tergite posteriorly gradually browner; third metasomal tergite brown.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. This species is only known from the type locality, Parque Nacional Tikal in Petén, Guatemala.

Etymology. The name reflects the type location of this species, the Parque Nacional Tikal.

Biology. Unknown.

Sequence data. GenBank accession numbers for this species are CO1 KJ472559 , Ef1α KJ472612 , 28S KJ472681 .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Furcidentia tikalensis sp. nov., holotype, female, a—habitus lateral; b—habitus dorsal, c—fore wing; d head frontal; scale bars a, b = 1.0 mm, c, d = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 9. Distribution map of the three new species of Furcidentia. F. jenningsi sp. nov. (red square), F. llama sp. nov. (blue square), and F. tikalensis sp. nov. (yellow triangle).