Microchelonus rubescus Papp, 2010

Papp, Jenő, 2016, First Survey Of The Neotropical Species Of Microchelonus Szépligeti With Descriptions Of Twenty-Five New Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 62 (3), pp. 217-344 : 296-298

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.62.3.217.2016

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BDD709-400D-8453-9CD5-FADFFCE9FD98

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scientific name

Microchelonus rubescus Papp, 2010
status

 

Microchelonus rubescus Papp, 2010

( Figs 393–397 View Figs 385–397 )

Microchelonusrubescus Papp, 2010: 183 f, typelocality: CostaRica, Heredia, LaSelvaRe- searchInstitute, holotypedepositedinHNHM, examined.

Emendated features to the original description (Papp l.c.) – f. Body 3.6 mm long. Penultimateflagellomerecubic (cf. Fig. 398). Headindorsalview 2.1 timesasbroadaslong, eye 2.1 timeslongerthantemple, templerounded, vertexandocciputtransverselysubstriolate ( Fig. 393 View Figs 385–397 ). Eyeinlateralview 1.3 timeswiderthangena, genaventrallywithsomewhat weakeningsubstriolation ( Fig. 394 seearrows View Figs 385–397 ). Scutellumrugose (cf. Fig. 412). Forewing: pterostigma 2.5 timesaslongaswide, issuing r distallyfromitsmiddle, 1–R1 aslongas carapaceinlateralview, 397 = posteriorthirdofcarapaceinventralview.

pterostigma, 3–SR about 1.7 timeslongerthan r ( Fig. 395 View Figs 385–397 ). Carapaceindorsalviewbelly, 1.7 timesaslongasbroadposteriorly, apicallyrounded, parallelstriated, apicallydenselyrugulose (cf. Fig. 316). Carapaceinlateralviewflattened, 3.3 timesaslongashighposteriorly, apicallyrounded ( Fig. 396 seearrows View Figs 385–397 ). Carapaceapico-ventrallyweaklyincurved ( Fig 397 View Figs 385–397 ). Proximalhalfofantennaochre, distalhalfdarkeningbrown. Mesosomatestaceous.

Maleunknown.

Distribution – Costa Rica.

Taxonomicposition – Intheoriginaldescription M. rubescus isrelatedto (Pappl.c.) andinthekeytothefemale Microchelonus speciesitrunsto M. ruficollis (Viereck) , seecouplets 121 (124) –123 (122).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Microchelonus

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