Stantonia maracapatana, Braet & Quicke, 2004

Braet, Yves & Quicke, Donald, 2004, A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimagathidini with revisionary notes on the genus Stantonia Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae), Journal of Natural History 38 (12), pp. 1489-1589 : 1557-1558

Stantonia maracapatana sp. n.

( figures 11 , 40 , 51 , 101, 103 )

Etymology. From the name of the city.

Type material. HOLOTYPE, „ ( AEI): Peru: Avispas , 30 m nr [near] Maracapata, 1–15 October 1962 (L. Peña).

Holotype, „, length of body 5.36 mm, of fore wing 4.96 mm.

Head ( figures 11 , 101 ). Antenna with 47 segments, length of antenna 1.6 times fore wing, length of third segment 1.1 times fourth, length of third, fourth and penultimate segments 3.2, 2.8 and 2.7 times their maximal width, apical segment three times its maximal width; length of eye in dorsal view twice temple; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, coriaceous ventrally and striate near eyes; OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~4.0:2.0:3.0; frons smooth medially, shiny, laterally striate; vertex convex, coarsely punctate laterally, flattened near stemmaticum; face convex, punctate; clypeus convex and punctate; maxillary palp 1.7 times height of head; length of malar space equal to basal width of mandible; malar suture present; occipital flange rounded posteriorly and straight ventrally.

Mesosoma ( figure 103 ). Length of mesosoma 1.3 times its maximal height; side of pronotum medio-anteriorly crenulate, coriaceous ventrally, smooth elsewhere, setose ventrally and posteriorly; mesopleuron sparsely punctate, smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus complete and punctate; metapleuron punctate; mesoscutum coarsely punctate; scutellar sulcus large and smooth; scutellum convex, punctate and shiny; propodeum medially convex in lateral view, with a coarse mediotransverse ruga ( figure 40 ), weakly rugulose anteriorly, granulose anteriorly and smooth posteriorly; mid-longitudinal carina of propodeum present anteriorly; metapleural flange blunt.

Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~10:40; second submarginal cell subsessile; subbasal cell glabrous anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 as long as vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane largely glabrous basally.

Legs. Hind coxa strongly rugose dorsally, laterally punctate and shiny; lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.6, 8.6 and 10.5 times their widths, respectively; tibial spurs 0.46 and 0.31 times basitarsus; hind tibia with three apical teeth; outer tarsal claws with several bristles basally ( figure 51 ).

Metasoma. First tergite 3.1 times longer than apically wide, flattened in lateral view, smooth and shiny; spiracles protruding; second tergite smooth; T2 1.1 times longer than T3; second suture smooth, straight.

Colour. Brownish yellow. Telotarsi, hind tarsus, hind tibia apically and dorsally, hind tibial spurs, stemmaticum, outer patch on scapus blackish; outer face of trochantellus, hind femur dorsally and laterally, subapical patch of T1, apical patch of T2–T8 dark brownish; apical patch of fore wing infuscate; tegula, basal part of T1, hind femur ventrally, distal border of T1, T2–T8 basally yellowish.

Remarks. This colour pattern is also shared by several undetermined specimens from Venezuela and Surinam (collections at Gainesville and Leiden) that do not share the same shape of the propodeum and metapleural flange, and which may therefore belong to different species. They are not included here in among the type series.

Figures

FIGS 11–16. (11) Stantonia maracapatana n. sp., holotype, „. (12) S. xochiquetzalis, holotype, ”. (13, 16) S. garamba n. sp., holotype, „. (14) S. sirena n. sp., paratype, ”. (15) S. wonvillei n. sp., holotype, „. Head in lateral view (11, 12); details of fore wing (13–16).

FIGS 35–40. (35) Stantonia ngilima n. sp., paratype, ”. (36) S. procera, holotype, ”. (37) S. baiteta n. sp., holotype, ”. (38) S. seyrigi, holotype, ” (39) S. rossa n. sp., holotype, ”. (40) S. maracapatana n. sp., holotype, „. Mesosoma in lateral view (35, 36); propodeum (37–40) and anterior part of metasoma (37, 38).

FIGS 47–52. (47, 50) Stantonia mazatlanensis n. sp., holotype, ”. (48) S. sommeijeri n. sp., holotype, ”. (49) S. hammersteini, holotype, ”. (51) S. maracapatana n. sp., holotype, „. (52) S. sirena n. sp., paratype, ”. Detail of first tergite, lateral view (47, 48) and dorsal view (49, 50); detail of outer claws of hind leg (51); detail of T2–T3 suture in dorsal view (52).

FIGS 101–106. (101, 103) Stantonia maracapatana n. sp., holotype, „. (102, 104) S. sumatrana, holotype, ”. (105) S. veronicae n. sp., paratype, „. (106) S. flava, holotype, ”. Head in lateral view (101, 102); mesosoma in lateral view (103, 104, 106); propodeum (105).