Furcidentia jenningsi, 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 : 148-150

Furcidentia jenningsi sp. nov.

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Holotype. FRENCH GUIANA: ♀, “ French Guiana, Mt. Chevoux, 4.722627, -52.41261, Rec: SEAG, MT, 1-7 viii 2001 ” ( MNHN).

Diagnosis. This species differs from all other members of the genus in lacking clypeal teeth, having a body length smaller than 3.0 mm, length of eye to length of temple ratio less than 2.0, and the face, frons, and vertex strigose.

Description (female). Body measurements. Length of body 2.8 mm; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.9; ratio of metasoma to mesosoma 1.1.

Head. Antenna incomplete with 26 antennomeres; ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.3; ratio of length of third and fourth antennomere to width 4.0 and 3.0, respectively; ratio of width of face to its height in frontal view 1.4; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 1.0; clypeus convex and finely rugose; without clypeal teeth; ratio of malar space to base of mandible 1.6; face straight in lateral view and strigose; frons and vertex strigose; ratio of length of eye to temple in dorsal view 1.9; ratio of ocelli:LOL:POL:OOL 1.0:1.0:0.8:2.8.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli present; anterior mesopleuron rugose, posterior mesopleuron strigose; scutellar sulcus present and strongly rugose; mesoscutellum flat and rugose; propodeum areolate; propodeal tubercles absent; ratio of mesosoma height to its length 0.7; ratio of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.1; ratio of length to width of hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia, and hind tarsus 1.8, 4.5, 4.6, and 13.6, 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 9.4; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.1; ratio of width to length of pterostigma 4.1; ratio of r:3-SR:SR- 1 1.0:0.8:5.7; ratio r:r-m:2-SR 1.0:0.9:2.2.

Metasoma. Oval in dorsal view; ratio of metasomal width to length 0.6; tergites costate; ratio of length of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.0:1.2.

Colour. Head reddish orange, interocellar area reddish brown; base of antenna beige, gradually more light brown towards the tip; mesosoma reddish brown; wings golden infused with vertical aligned hyaline stripe beneath parastigma; wing venation, parastigma and pterostigma light brown; fore and mid legs with white coxae, otherwise beige; hind leg with white coxae, brown femora, and tibiae base white otherwise brown; first metasomal tergite beige; second metasomal tergite with beige mark anteriorly, otherwise brown; third metasomal tergite brown.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. This species is only known from the type locality, Mt. Chevoux, French Guiana.

Etymology. The species is named in honour of John Jennings, a specialist on Evanioidea, now retired from The University of Adelaide.

Biology. Unknown.

Sequence data. GenBank accession numbers for this species are CO1 KJ472560 , Ef1α KJ472613 , 28S KJ472682 .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Furcidentia jenningsi sp. nov., holotype, female, a—habitus lateral; b—head frontal; c—fore wing; scale bars a = 1.0 mm, b = 0.25 mm, c = 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).