Lytopylus motohasegawai Kang

Kang, Ilgoo, Chapman, Eric G., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Tanya Dapkey,, Alex, Smith M. & Sharkey, Michael J., 2017, Revision of the species of Lytopylus from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae), ZooKeys 721, pp. 93-158 : 128-131

Lytopylus motohasegawai Kang sp. n. Fig. 26, 27

Diagnosis.

Vertex of head entirely yellow; fore wing mostly infuscated with a quadrate second submarginal cell; mesoscutum mostly or entirely pale (yellow to orange); median areola of propodeum kite-shaped; anterior transverse carina of propodeum not reaching the lateral margin; median tergites entirely pale (yellow to orange).

Description.

Holotype: female. Body length 4.9 mm. Fore wing length 4.9 mm. Fore wing mostly infuscated. Scutellar sulcus with one median longitudinal carina. Median areola of propodeum with well-defined margins. Anterior transverse carina of propodeum not reaching the lateral margin. Lateral longitudinal carinae of median tergite 1 well-defined. Median syntergite 2+3 as long as wide. Ovipositor longer than metasoma, but shorter than body.

Males.

Vertical of head and occiput usually mostly melanic. Body length usually shorter than holotype. Median tergites mostly melanic.

Variation.

Female occiput varies from entirely pale to mostly pale. Male hind femur color varies from mostly pale to black and pale with a similar percentage of each color.

Etymology.

Lytopylus motohasegawai is named in honor of Motohiro Hasegawa in recognition of his participation in the collaborative development of the ICE-ACG geothermal project of Pailas II, northwestern Costa Rica.

Biology.

Reared 36 times from gelJanzen01 Janzen28, a leaf-tier in the Gelechiidae feeding on mature leaves of two species of Roupala ( Proteaceae ) in ACG rain forest at 415 to 740 m elevation.

Type material.

Holotype ♀: Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Sector Pitilla, Sendero Naciente, Area de Conservaciόn Guanacaste 10.98705N - 85.42816W 700m., Manuel Rios coll., food plant: Proteaceae Roupala glaberrima , host caterpillar: Gelechiidae , subfamily unknown, gelJanzen01 Janzen28, coll. date: 8/30/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/23/2010, DHJPAR0041602. Paratypes: [the following have the same data as the holotype except as indicated] ♀, coll. date: 10/13/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 11/1/2010, DHJPAR0041962. ♀, coll. date: 8/6/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/10/2011, DHJPAR0048071. ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 8/29/2011, DHJPAR0045318. ♂, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/8/2011, DHJPAR0048064. ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/8/2011, DHJPAR0048068. ♀, Petrona Rios coll., parasitoid eclosion date: 8/31/2011, DHJPAR0048067. [same as previous except eclosion date] ♂, parasitoid eclosion date: 8/29/2011, DHJPAR0045364. ♂, Calixto Moraga coll., coll. date: 8/9/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 8/29/2011, DHJPAR0045365. [same as previous except coll. date and eclosion date] ♀, coll. date: 1/17/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 2/21/2011, DHJPAR0042463. ♀, Sendero Memos, 10.98171N - 85.42785W 740m., Petrona Rios coll., coll. date: 8/8/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/18/2011, DHJPAR0048065. [same as previous except eclosion date] ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/9/2011, DHJPAR0048063. ♀, parsitoids eclosion date: 9/10/2011, DHJPAR0048066. ♀, Sendero Nacho, 10.98445N - 85.42481W 710m., Petrona Rios coll., coll. date: 8/24/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 10/1/2010, DHJPAR0041601. [same as previous except as indicated] ♀, Manuel Rios coll., coll. date: 9/27/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 10/21/2010, DHJPAR0041203. [same as previous except eclosion date] ♂, parasitoid eclosion date: 11/2/2010, DHJPAR0041960. ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 11/3/2010, DHJPAR0041963. ♂, parasitoid eclosion date: 10/28/2010, DHJPAR0041954. ♂, Manguera, 10.9959N - 85.39842W 470m., Manuel Rios coll., coll. date: 1/4/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 1/29/2011, DHJPAR0041577. [same as previous except as indicated] ♀, Ricardo Calero coll., coll. date: 7/15/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 8/6/2011, DHJPAR0045330. [same as previous except eclosion date] ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/12/2011, DHJPAR0048062. ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/13/2011, DHJPAR0048061. ♀, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/13/2011, DHJPAR0048059. [same as previous except coll. date and eclosion date] ♀, coll. date: 9/11/2011 parasitoid eclosion date: 9/29/2011, DHJPAR0048060. ♂, coll. date: 9/18/2011 parasitoid eclosion date: 10/20/2011, DHJPAR0048073. ♀, coll. date: 9/18/2011 parasitoid eclosion date: 10/24/2011, DHJPAR0048072. ♀, Sendero Cuestona, 10.99455N - 85.41461W 640m., Freddy Quesada coll., coll. date: 8/25/2011, parasitoid eclosion date: 9/14/2011, DHJPAR0048070. ♀, Alajuela, Sector San Cristobal, Tajo Angeles, 10.86472N - 85.41531W 540m., Elda Araya coll., food plant: Proteaceae Roupala montana , coll. date: 10/9/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 10/30/2010, DHJPAR0041573. [same as previous except coll. date and eclosion date] ♀, coll. date: 10/23/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 11/12/2010, DHJPAR0041568. ♀, coll. date: 10/23/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 12/3/2010, DHJPAR 0041564. ♀, coll. date: 12/22/2010, parasitoid eclosion date: 1/28/2011, DHJPAR0041584. ♂, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Jacobo, 10.94076N - 85.3177W 461m, Edwin Apu coll., food plant: Proteaceae Roupala glaberrima , coll. date: 1/18/2014, parasitoid eclosion date: 2/6/2014, DHJPAR0054745. ♀, Estacion Caribe, 10.90187N - 85.27495W 415m., Pablo Umaña Calderon coll., food plant: Proteaceae Roupala montana , coll. date: 7/31/2009, parasitoid eclosion date: 8/19/2009, DHJPAR0040071.