Promicrogaster kevinmartinezi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2016

Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Boudreault, Caroline, Dapkey, Tanya, Smith, M. Alex, Rodriguez, J., Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2016, Revision of the genus Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50, pp. 25-79 : 43

Promicrogaster kevinmartinezi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. n.

Figs 69-74 , 75-80

Holotype.

Female, CNC. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Sendero Arenales, 1080m, 10.92471, -85.46738. DNA Voucher code: DHJPAR0031319.

Paratypes.

1♀, 1♂ (CNC), same locality as holotype. DNA voucher codes: DHJPAR0031274, DHJPAR0031318.

Description.

Head: mostly black, clypeus, labrum and mandibles yellow. Flagellomeres: dark brown to black. Mesosoma: black. Tegula: yellow. Metasoma (dorsally): T1-T2 dark brown to black, T3 mostly yellow, with anterior 0.2 light brown, T4-7 brown anteriorly, white on posterior 0.3-0.5. Metacoxa: orange-yellow. Malar distance: 0.2-0.3 × eye length. Fore wing areolet: present. T1 sculpture: anterior 0.5 smooth, posterior 0.5 sculptured. T2 sculpture: mostly sculptured. Ocular-ocellar line: 0.14-0.15 mm. Interocellar distance: 0.10 mm. Posterior ocellus diameter: 0.07-0.08 mm. Body length: 2.85-3.37 mm. Fore wing length: 3.47-3.67 mm. Ovipositor length: 2.49-3.38 mm. Metacoxa length: 0.81-0.85 mm. Metafemur length: 0.89 mm. Metatibia length: 1.13-1.18 mm. T1 length/width at posterior margin: 0.40-0.56 mm/ 0.21-0.24 mm. T2 length/width at posterior margin: 0.11 mm/ 0.40-0.47 mm.

Distribution.

Known only from the holotype locality in ACG, cloud forest, Costa Rica.

Etymology.

Promicrogaster kevinmartinezi is named in honor of 12-year-old Kevin Olivier Martínez Pérez from the Colonia Bolaños school for his growing enthusiasm for understanding and protecting the wild nature that occurs in his homeland.

Figures

Figures 69 - 74. Promicrogaster kevinmartinezi sp. n. holotype.

Figures 75 - 80. Promicrogaster kevinmartinezi sp. n. male paratype.