Pseudophanerotoma Zettel, 1990

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 : 152-153

Genus Pseudophanerotoma Zettel, 1990

( Figs 4–7 , 10 )

Pseudophanerotoma Zettel, 1990: 164 ; subgenus Pseudophanerotoma Zettel, 1990: 166 . Type species: Phanerotoma thapsina Walley 1951: 305 (CNC), examined.

Pseudophanerotoma: Cushman, 1922: 27 ; da Costa Lima, 1956: 221; Zettel, 1992: 277; Shaw, 1997: 195; Campos & Diego, 2001: 199; Gauld & Shaw, 2006: 499; Penteado-Dias et al., 2008: 402; Yu et al., 2012.

Diagnosis. Eyes round, protruding, glabrous; ocelli as an equilateral triangle; hypostomal carina reaching occipital carina; clypeus with two teeth; malar suture absent; occipital carina complete; antenna with more than 25 antennomeres; notauli present; scutellar sulcus present; blister on mid tibia present; fore wing with 1-SR+M present, emanating from 1-M; 2-R1 absent; R not extending to apex of wing; 1-cu1 postfurcal, 2-SR+M postfurcal, with three radial abscissae present; 3-SR postfurcal; subdiscal cell closed (cu1b present); cua postfurcal; lateral propodeal tubercles absent or present; metasomal carapace with traverse sutures; without lobes on postero-lateral end of carapace.

Distribution. Previously known from both the Neotropical and Nearctic regions, specifically Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, and USA. Its distribution is here expanded to include Guatemala and French Guiana.

Biology. Pseudophanerotoma (P.) alvarengai Zettel is known to parasitise the tortricid Cydia tonosticha (Meyrick, 1922) ( Penteado-Dias et al., 2008).

Remarks. Zettel (1990) erected the genus Pseudophanerotoma , based on four newly described species and three species, which hitherto belonged to the genus Phanerotoma ; P. zeteki (Cushman) , P. thapsina (Walley) and P. paranaensis (Costa Lima). The majority of examined materials were available in both genders, except P. alvarengai Zettel (only the ♀), P. paranaensis (Costa Lima) (only the ♂), P. maculosa Zettel (only the ♂) and P. peruana Zettel (only the ♂). Penteado-Dias et al. (2008) have described the male of P. alvarengai . With the description of the male of P. thapsina (Walley) and of the female of P. paranaensis (Costa Lima) here, I close some of those gaps and only the female of P. maculosa remains unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Pseudophanerotoma austini sp. nov., holotype, male, a—head frontal; b—habitus lateral; c—mesosoma dorsal; d fore wing; scale bars a = 0.5 mm, b, c, d = 1.0 mm.

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 6. Pseudophanerotoma thapsina, male, a—habitus lateral; b—head frontal; c—fore wing; scale bars a = 1.0 mm, b = 0.5 mm, c = 1.0 mm.

FIGURE 7. Pseudophanerotoma thapsina, holotype, female, a—habitus lateral; b—head frontal; c—metasoma dorsal.

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).