Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2025

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Boudreault, Caroline, Whitfield, James B., Höcherl, Amelie, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2025, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Neotropical region, with the description of 102 new species, ZooKeys 1237, pp. 1-250 : 1-250

Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 133 A – F

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Sendero Arenales ; 10.92471, -85.46738; 1,080 m; 18.xii.2008; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; DHJPAR 0031312 . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 1 Female, CNC; DHJPAR 0033964 . 1 Female, 1 Male, CCDB; BIOUG 49263 - G 08 , BIOUG 59060 - H 03 .

Diagnostic description.

T 2 smooth; extensive orange coloration, including clypeus, anteromesoscutum (almost entirely, except for small dark spot near scutellar disc), antero-dorsal spot on mesopleuron, propleuron (partially), mesosternum (mostly) and two faint spots postero-laterally on T 1; pro- and mesocoxae yellow-white, metacoxa mostly yellow-white with brown spot on anterior 0.1–0.2; body length: 2.97–3.19 mm; fore wing length: 3.13–3.16 mm; BIN BOLD: AAM 5736 which is 2.56 % different from the nearest BIN in BOLD as of March 2022. The extensive orange coloration is sufficient to distinguish this species among all with smooth T 2 and pale pro- and mesocoxae.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BOLD: AAM 5736 (5 sequences, 3 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mrs. Shelley McSweeney in recognition of her decade-plus of weathering the demands of being a major part of the family with Mr. Eric Palola, as the two-country Executive Director of the NGO Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund and its integration with the Costa Rican government’s Area de Conservación Guanacaste ( ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica.

Figures

Figure 133. Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0031312 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C propodeum & T 1, dorsal D wings E metasoma, dorsal F mesosoma, dorsal.