Triraphis fasciipennis (Cresson)

Valerio, Alejandro A. & Shaw, Scott R., 2015, Thirteen new Costa Rican species belonging to the genus Triraphis Ruthe (Braconidae: Rogadinae) with their host records, Zootaxa 3904 (4), pp. 501-540 : 515-516

Triraphis fasciipennis (Cresson) , comb. n.

Figures 8 , 35–40 .

Aleiodes fasciipennis Cresson, 1869 .

Pelecystoma fasciipennis Dalla Torre, 1898 .

Description. Female. Body color: yellow, with antenna light brownish yellow except basal 1/4 dark brown; remainder brownish yellow as scape and pedicel (both with internal face yellow), tarsal claws, telotarsus. Fore wing: 1 – 1A brownish yellow as M+CU distal 1/3, C+SC+R yellow; hind wing: veins yellow. Wings hyaline. Body length = 4.11 – 5.88 mm; fore wing length = 3.44 – 4.44 mm.

Head: Width of oral opening/height of oral opening = 1.88 – 2.07. Antenna, flagellomeres all longer than wide, between 34 – 38; malar space slightly smaller than basal width of mandible; occipital carina effaced dorsally and only present laterally (dorsal gap, as big as distance between external edges of lateral ocelli), not fused with hypostomal carina, clearly separated; median ocellus as big as lateral ocellus; space between lateral ocellus black; ocell-ocular distance 2/3 Lateral ocellus width.

Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma in dorsal view/width of mesosoma = 2.57 – 2.75; height of mesosoma = 0.91 – 1.15 mm; propleuron dorso-lateral area, basal area with defined colliculate sculpturing, remainder nitid; notauli punctate, pits from bigger laterally to smaller medially, less defined medially; medial longitudinal pit present, with water drop shape and longitudinal punctate sculpturing present; sternauli conspicuously striate at distal 1/2, basal 1/2 as union with prepectal carina nitid or with few inconspicuous striate sculpturing, area below nitid; mesopleuron immaculate except dorso-lateral area with confused rugose sculpturing; metapleuron granulate, ventral edge with rugose sculpturing present; propodeum with dorsal 1/2 granulate, remainder with colliculate sculpturing; spiracles sub – oval; first lateral areas of propodeum with light areolate-rugulose sculpturing, remainder with spaced areolate-rugulose sculpturing, less conspicuous ventrally than medially; medial carina as big as or smaller than 1/4 Propodeum length; areola absent or very irregular; ventral tubercles present without carinae over them and densely granulate.

Legs: basal lobe of hind tarsal claws elongate and acute at tip.

Wings: fore wing: 3RSa/1RS = 4.25 – 4.40; r = 0.24 – 0.26 mm. hind wing: 1M/r – m = 2.13 – 2.33; m+cu antefurcal to 2RS; 2RS straight; angle at union of veins 2RS – 2M wide; pterostigma yellow with irregular medial brownish yellow spot.

Metasoma: Length of first metasomal tergum/width of first metasomal tergum = 1.26 – 1.05; length of second metasomal tergum/width of second metasomal tergum = 0.68 – 0.79; length of third metasomal tergum/width of third metasomal tergum = 0.30 – 0.34; basal width of first metasomal tergum = 0.29 – 0.41 mm; hypopygium = 0.35 – 0.55 mm. first metasomal tergum dorso – basal triangular area of first metasomal tergum open with carinae present, medial carina normal; first metasomal tergum lineate sculpturing as second metasomal tergum sculpturing; third metasomal tergum lineate sculpturing finer and less conspicuous than second metasomal tergum sculpturing, not reaching third metasomal tergum distal edge; fourth metasomal tergum with lineate sculpturing finer than present at third metasomal tergum.

Male. Similar to females.

Specimens examined: from the RMSEL, 2 females and 1 male compared with the female holotype by Prof. Scott Shaw, specimens collected from Mexico, Tamaulipas, cerca de Ciudad Mante, 17 – 19/i/1974.

Material collected in Costa Rica. Alajuela, Chiles de Aguas Zarcas, Café, 300 m. i/1990, Col. R. Cespedes; (3) Guanacaste, P.N. Santa Rosa, Rd. to Playa Naranjo, 8 – 18/vi/1995. Col. Dadelahi, Price, Zitani.; ACG, sector Santa Rosa, bosque húmedo, 16/viii/1990, Col. D.H. Janzen; Puntarenas: Pto. Jiménez, 10 m. I – ii/1992, Col. P. Hanson; (2) Península de Osa, Pto. Jimenez , 10 m. v/1991, Col. P. Hanson; 3 same data except date, (2) x – xi/1993, ii – iii/1993. Voucher number: (Janzen) 90 – SRNP – 1880.

Biology. One specimen reared from Melanis sanguinea (Riodinidae) feeding on Albizzia adinocephala (Fabaceae) .

Figures

FIGURE 7 – 12. Triraphis sicbaios, 7, head, dorsal view; 8, T. fasciipennis, ovipositor, lateral view; 9, T. fusciceps, ovipositor, lateral view; 10, T. ikelopsops ovipositor, lateral view; 11, T. simphlex, ovipositor, lateral view; 12, T. willei, ovipositor, lateral view. Scale bar in millimeters.

FIGURE 35 – 40. Triraphis fasciipennis, 35, dorsal habitus; 36, lateral habitus; 37, mesosoma, dorsal view; 38, mesosoma, lateral view; 39, head, anterior view; 40, metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar in millimeters.