Promicrogaster pablouzagai 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 : 52-54

Promicrogaster pablouzagai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. n.

Figs 129-134

Holotype.

Female, CNC. COSTA RICA, Alajuela, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector San Cristobal, Bosque Trampa Malaise, 815m, 10.86280, -85.38460. DNA Voucher code: DHJPAR0025926.

Paratypes.

6♂ (CNC, NMNH), same locality as holotype; 1♂ (CNC), from Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Cacao, Cerro Pedregal, 1080m, 10.92767, -85.47449. DNA Voucher codes: DHJPAR0025962, DHJPAR0025964, DHJPAR0025993, DHJPAR0026085, DHJPAR0026089, DHJPAR0027659, DHJPAR0031406.

Description.

Head: orange-yellow. Flagellomeres: flagellomeres 1-2 light brown, flagellomeres 3-11 orange-yellow, flagellomeres 12-16 dark brown. Mesosoma: mostly black, with anteromesoscutum, scutellar disc and part of the axillar complex orange-brown. Tegula: yellow. Metasoma (dorsally): dark brown to black. Metacoxa: orange dorsally, brown ventrally. Malar distance: 0.2-0.3 × eye length. Fore wing areolet: present. T1 sculpture: smooth. T2 sculpture: smooth. Ocular-ocellar line: 0.11 mm. Interocellar dis tance: 0.10-0.11 mm. Posterior ocellus diameter: 0.06-0.07 mm. Body length: 2.65 mm. Fore wing length: 2.99 mm. Ovipositor length: 1.28 mm. Metacoxa length: 0.77 mm. Metafemur length: 0.90 mm. Metatibia length: 1.06 mm. T1 length/width at posterior margin: 0.48 mm/ 0.21 mm. T2 length/width at posterior margin: 0.11 mm/ 0.40 mm.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (ACG, mid-elevation rain forest and cloud forest).

Etymology.

Promicrogaster pablouzagai is named in honor of 14-year-old Juan Pablo Uzaga López from the Colonia Bolaños school for his growing enthusiasm for understanding and protecting the wild nature that occurs in his homeland.

Comments.

Based in body color, propodeum sculpture, and shape of areolet in fore wing, this is the most distinctive Promicrogaster among all species studied.

Figures

Figures 129 - 134. Promicrogaster pablouzagai sp. n. holotype.