Mirax (Centistidea) brasiliensis Brues, 1912

Papp, J, 2013, Eleven New Mirax Haliday, 1833 Species From Colombia And Honduras And Key To The Sixteen Neotropical Mirax Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Miracinae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59 (2), pp. 97-129 : 101-103

Mirax (Centistidea) brasiliensis Brues, 1912

( Figs 14–21 )

Mirax brasiliensis Brues, 1912: 205 f, type locality: ”Ceará-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil ”, female holotype (” one female ”) in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge ( USA), not examined. – Shenefelt 1973: 677 (literature up to 1912). PAPP 1993: 174 (in key). PenteAdo- DiAs 1999: 192 (in Note).

Material examined – 1 f (in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest): Brazil, Para, Rio Acara , 25 July 1930, leg. E. Horváth. Female’s condition: fairly good, pair of fla- gelli missing, lower part of head and legs partly obscured (owing to the mounting) .

Additional features to the original description – Body 2.5 mm long. Scape barrelshaped, 1.8 times as long as broad ( Fig. 14 ); pedicel and flagellum missing. Head in dorsal view transverse ( Fig. 15 ), 1.9 times as broad as long, eye 2.1 times as long as temple, temple clearly receded. Inner margin of eyes parallel. Head polished. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Notaulix evenly deep, distinctly crenulated and reaching hind third of mesoscutum ( Fig. 16 ). Mesoscutum shiny. Metanotum as in Fig. 113. Propodeum with a strong medio-longitudinal and a less strong transverse carinae, medially with rather transverse rugulae, subshiny ( Fig. 17 ). Hind femur thick, 2.8 times as long as broad distally ( Fig. 18 ). Fore wing: pterostigma 3.3 times as long as wide, issuing r from its midpoint, 2–SR 1.4 times as long as width of pterostigma ( Fig. 19 ); first discal cell less high, 1–M 1.6 times as long as m–cu, 2–CU1 2.2 times as long as 1–CU1 ( Fig. 20 ). Sclerotized plate of first tergite less wide, that of second tergite as in Fig. 21 . Ovipositor sheath short, shorter than hind basitarsus. Body and legs testaceous, tergites 1–2 pale yellow. Wings hyaline, pterostima yellow, veins yellow to brownish yellow.

Male and host unknown.

Distribution – Brazil (Para, Rio Grande de Norte). 2–SR of right fore wing, 28 = first discal cell, 29 = tergites 1–2.

Taxonomic position – M. (C.) brasiliensis Brues is nearest to M. (C.) insularis Muesebeck , the two species are distinguished by the features detailed in key-couplet 5.

Figures

Figs 14–29. 14–21: Mirax (Centistidea) brasiliensis Brues (female): 14 = scape, 15 = head in dorsal view, 16 = mesoscutum with notaulix, 17 = propodeum, 18 = hind femur, 19 = pterostigma and 2–SR of right fore wing, 20 = first discal cell, 21 = tergites 1–2. – 22–29: Mirax (Centistidea) carinatus sp. n. (female holotype): 22 = flagellomeres 1–3, 23 = head in dorsal view, 24 = head in lateral view, 25 = propodeum, 26 = hind femur, 27 = pterostigma and