Promicrogaster alexmartinezi 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 : 34

Promicrogaster alexmartinezi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. n.

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Holotype.

Female, CNC. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Santa Rosa, Area Administrativa, 295m, 10.83764, -85.61871. DNA Voucher code: DHJPAR0031827.

Paratype.

1♀ (CNC), same locality as holotype. DNA voucher code: DHJPAR0031814.

Description.

Head: mostly black, clypeus, labrum and mandibles yellow. Flagellomeres: dark brown to black. Mesosoma: black. Tegula: white. Metasoma (dorsally): T1 mostly red with black margins (posterior 0.3 of T1 black sometimes), T2-T4 red-orange or yellow-orange, T5+ yellow with small central band brown. Metacoxa: Orange. Malar distance: 0.3 × eye length. Fore wing areolet: present. T1 sculpture: mostly smooth, with posterior 0.3 sculptured. T2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Ocular-ocellar line: 0.14 mm. Interocellar distance: 0.12 mm. Posterior ocellus diameter: 0.11 mm. Body length: 4.20-4.97 mm. Fore wing length: 4.17-4.83 mm. Ovipositor length: 2.40-3.50 mm. Metacoxa length: 1.10-1.41 mm. Metafemur length: 1.11-1.32 mm. Metatibia length: 1.44-1.89 mm. T1 length/width at posterior margin: 0.56-0.73mm/ 0.32-0.40 mm. T2 length/width at posterior margin: 0.18-0.20 mm/ 0.42-0.63 mm.

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

Comments.

The female holotype is larger and slightly darker than the paratype.

Etymology.

Promicrogaster alexmartinezi is named in honor of 13-year-old Alex Geovanny Martínez López from the Colonia Bolaños school for his growing enthusiasm for understanding and protecting the wild nature that occurs in his homeland.

Figures

Figures 1 - 8. Promicrogaster alexmartinezi sp. n. holotype.