Opius curiosicornis Fischer

Wharton, Robert, Daniels, Sophia, Shirley, Xanthe & Restuccia, Danielle, 2013, An opiine Braconidae (Hymenoptera) reared from Richardiidae (Diptera) and recognition of a new species group of Opius s. l., ZooKeys 289, pp. 65-101 : 76-78

Opius curiosicornis Fischer Figs 1215273144

Opius curiosicornis Fischer, 1965c: 224-228.Holotype female in AEIC (examined).

Opius curiosicornis : Fischer 1965d: 420 (key); Fischer 1968a: 77-78 (key); Fischer 1971: 59 (catalog).

Opius (Merotrachys) curiosicornis : Fischer 1977: 655-657, 668-670 (key, redescription); Fischer 1979a: 264-266 (key); Yu et al. 2005, 2012 (electronic catalogs).

Type locality.

Peru, Avispas, near Marcapata, 30 m.

Type material.

Holotype. Female (AEIC), first label, first line: Avispas, Perú second line: 30m nr. Marcapata third line: Sept. 1962 fourth line: Luis Peña

Diagnosis.

Face faintly punctate, nearly smooth, polished throughout. Eye in lateral view 2.0-2.5 × longer than temple; temples in dorsal view weakly receding. Female antenna with 49 flagellomeres; setae on basal flagellomeres thick, dark. Mesoscutum anteriorly with shallow but distinct declivity; notaulus weakly curving laterally towards tegula, supramarginal carina weak, barely distinguishable. Propodeum weakly shagreened, largely smooth, with deep median trough divided by transverse carina into shorter anterior trough and longer, roughly rectangular posterior areola. Fore wing 3RSa straight, 1.5-1.6 × longer than 2RS; m-cu interstitial. T1 sharply declivitous anteriorly, pit delimited posterior-medially; surface weakly shagreened, mostly smooth; dorsal carinae parallel-sided for most of their length, abruptly converging near posterior margin, not sinuate, not transversely carinate between dorsal carinae. T2 mostly weakly shagreened, smoother laterally, T3 faintly shagreened to smooth, especially laterally. Ovipositor short; ovipositor sheath 0.4 × length of mesosoma. Head, body, hind coxa and femur light orange; antenna without pale subapical ring; wing darkly infumate.

Remarks.

Known only from the female holotype. The propodeal sculpture (Fig. 27) is similar to that of Opius bicarinifer , but the shape of T1 and the pronope are more typical of members of the ingenticornis species group. T1 is weakly excavated near the posterior margin between the dorsal and lateral carinae, resulting in a pattern that is nearly identical to that found in Opius bicarinifer Fischer. See remarks section under Opius bicarinifer below for additional information.