Notiospathius fuscipes ( 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 : 34-36

Notiospathius fuscipes ( Cameron) ( Figs 2 A–F)

Spathius fuscipes Cameron, 1887

Female. — Colour: head brown; scape and pedicel honey yellow; flagellum light brown, basal ten flageromeres brown (antenna incomplete, apical third white according to original description); palpi pale yellow. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite dark brown to black; following eight terga brown, two apical terga light brown. Fore and middle legs light brown to honey yellow; hind leg coxa dark brown, trochanters honey yellow, femur, tibia and tarsus brown. Wings dusky, veins and tegula light brown, stigma dark brown. Body length, 3.9 mm; ovipositor 3.9 mm. Head: temple about 0.2 times eye width; face strongly costaterugose; frons and vertex transversally striate; temple and gena smooth; eyes 1.4 times higher than wide; malar suture absent; malar space 0.4 times eye height; hypoclypeal depression slightly round; ocell-ocular distance 2.7 times diameter of lateral ocellus; occipital carina complete, joining ventrally with hypostomal carina; scape, pedicel and flageromeres smooth; scape 1.5 longer than wide; coriaceous antenna broken, 17 flageromeres remianing in one antenna, the other one missing. Mesosoma: length 2.4 times its maximum height; propleuron weakly costate, pronotum costate-rugose; median mesonotal lobe coriaceous, lateral mesonotal lobes costate-coriaceous; notauli complete, scrobiculate and wide; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, smooth medially and ventrally; venter of mesosoma smooth; sternaulus scrobiculate and wide; 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 wrinkled, not possible to take measurements; pterostigma 4 times longer than wide. Legs: hind coxa striate-rugose anteriorly, transversally striate posteriorly. Metasoma: first metasomal tergite longitudinally costate-rugose, 6.3 times longer than wide (narrowest area); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.75 times length of tergum; second tergum entirely strongly carinate; third tergum weakly costate-rugose; remaining terga smooth; ovipositor 1.77 times as long as metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype. Panama: female, “Bugaba, 800–1500 ft, (Champion)”. NHM type Hym. 3e 528.

Comments. This species is distinguished from the remaining described species by having the entire second and third tergites strongly carinate and weakly costate-rugose, respectively.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Notiospathius fuscipes: A) head, lateral view; B) head, dorsal view; C) mesosoma, lateral view; D) propodeum, dorsal view; E) hind coxa, lateral view; F) metasoma, dorsal view.