Sagarana, Gibertoni & Whitfield & Penteado-Dias, 2021

Gibertoni, Julia, Whitfield, James B. & Penteado-Dias, Angélica M., 2021, A new genus of Cedriini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Hormiinae) from the Brazilian cerrado, Zootaxa 5047 (4), pp. 489-494 : 490

Sagarana new genus

Type-species: Sagarana cerradensis n. sp.

Diagnosis. Antenna filiform and slender, shorter than fore wing ( Fig. 2 ), with 12 antennomeres; third antennomere longer than fourth. Distance between antennal sockets more than twice their distance from the eyes. Eyes with reduced pilosity. Head moderately transverse in dorsal view; maxillary and labial palps with four and three segments, respectively; occipital carina complete, joining hypostomal carina; frons convex and setose with median carina, malar suture absent, hypoclypeal depression small, deep ( Fig. 4 ). Head and mesosoma ( Figs 4‒6 ) rugose, mesopleu- ron mainly granulate and setose, metapleuron coarsely rugose-reticulate. Fore wing ( Fig. 8 ) with vein 2-RS present, cu-a vertical, M+CU nearly straight, CU1b present, hind wing cu-a absent. Propodeum ( Fig. 6 ) with poorly defined pattern of carinae but with median-sized areola divided at midlength by a transversal carina. Tarsal claw small, simple. Femora slender, hind coxa small. First metasomal tergite movably joined to second tergite, second tergite fused to third and marked from it dorsally only by a reduction in sculpturing. Tergites 1‒3 coriaceous, forming a carapace covering the following tergites.

Etymology. From the title of the same name from João Guimarães Rosa’s novel that portrays the life of simple people in the ‘sertão’, the region where the specimen was found.

Figures

FIGURES 1‒6. Sagarana cerradensis n. sp. female: 1, dorsal view of the head (paratype); 2, dorsal view of head and antennae (paratype); 3, lateral view of the head (paratype); 4, anterior view of head (holotype); 5,lateral view of mesosoma (holotype); 6, posterodorsal view of mesoscutum and propodeum (paratype).

FIGURES 7‒10. Sagarana cerradensis n. sp.female: 7, lateral habitus (holotype); 8, wings (holotype); 9, dorsal view of metasoma (paratype); 10, ventral view of metasoma, close view of the two openings fringed by setae (paratype).