Notiospathius tinctipennis ( Cameron )

Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro & Jesús-Bonilla, Vladimir Salvador De, 2010, Redescription of species of the Neotropical parasitoid Notiospathius Mathews et Marsh (Braconidae: Doryctinae) based on their nineteenth and early twentieth century types, Zootaxa 2543, pp. 31-42 : 40-41

Notiospathius tinctipennis ( Cameron) ( Figs 6 A–D)

Spathius tinctipennis Cameron, 1887 Female. — Colour: head brown; scape and pedicel light brown; flagellum brown, apical eight flageromeres yellow; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite brown; remaining terga brown to light brown; venter of metasoma light brown. Fore and middle legs honey yellow; hind coxa brown, trochanters yellow, femur, tibia and tarsus honey yellow. Wings hyaline, veins and stigma light brown, tegula yellow. Body length, 3.6 mm; ovipositor 1.6 mm. Head: temple about 0.6 times eye width; face transversally costate; frons weakly coriaceous near antennae, remaining area smooth; vertex and temple smooth and shining; eyes 1.3 times higher than wide; malar suture absent; malar space 0.6 times eye eight; hypoclypeal depression slightly elliptical; ocell-ocular distance 3.3 times diameter of lateral ocellus; occipital carina complete, joining ventrally with hypostomal carina; scape, pedicel and flageromeres smooth; scape 1.5 longer than wide; one antenna complete, with 24 flageromeres, the remaining one broken, with six flageromeres. Mesosoma: length 2.27 times its maximum height; propleuron and pronotum costate-rugose; median and lateral mesonotal lobes coriaceous; notauli scrobiculate and wide; mesopleuron coriaceous dorsally and ventrally, smooth to weakly rugose medially; venter of mesosoma destroyed; sternaulus scrobiculate, partially destroyed; propodeum entirely rugose, without distinct median carina or areola, with a distinct spine over hind coxa and a spine at apical-lateral corners. Wings: forewings 3.6 times longer than its maximum width; pterostigma 3 times longer than wide. Legs: hind coxa costate-rugose. Metasoma: first metasomal tergite longitudinally costate-rugoseacinose basally and medially, turning weakly acinose to smooth apically; 4.6 times longer than wide (narrowest area); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) 0.75 times length of tergum; second tergum weakly rugosecoriaceous basally; remaining terga smooth; ovipositor 0.78 times as long as metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype. Panama: female, “V. de Chiriquí, 2-3000 ft. (Champion) ”. NHM type Hym. 3c 526.

Comments. Notiospathius tinctipennis is distinguished from the remaining species, except from N. bribri , by having most of the frons and the entire vertex smooth. N. tinctipennis can be distinguished from the latter species by having the propodeum without a distinct median carina or areola (propodeum with a distinct median, lateral and areolar carinae in N. bribri ), and the mesopleuron coriaceous dorsally and ventrally and smooth to weakly rugose medially (mesopleuron coriaceous medially and smooth dorsally and ventrally in N. bribri ).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Notiospathius tinctipennis: A) head, frontolateral view; B) head, dorsal view; C) propodeum, dorsal view; D) metasoma, dorsal view.