Trieces upermia Gauld & Sithole, 2002

Melo, Ivy Frizo De, Araújo, Carolina Rodrigues & Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria, 2015, New species of Exochus Gravenhorst and Trieces Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae) and first record of seven species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4059 (1) : -

Trieces upermia Gauld & Sithole, 2002

( Figs. 24–25 )

Diagnosis. This species has the head extensively yellow on the frontal and genal orbits, metapleuron smooth, and epicnemial carina reaching the anterior margin of the pleuron ( Gauld, et al., 2002).

Remarks. The holotype in BNHM has the lower half of gena yellow; Brazilian specimens have the gena almost completely black with only the lower end yellow ( Fig. 25 ).

Distribution. Costa Rica, Brazil. The specimens were collected in riparian forest (Itiquira) State of Mato Grosso and Brazilian savannah (Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Carlos), State of São Paulo.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. ( BMNH) Holotype, 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Guanacaste Prov., Guanacaste National Park, Cerro el Hacha, Casa Este, 400 m, i–vi.1988, Gauld and Janzen colls. ( DCBU) 2 ♀, Brazil, MT, Itiquira, Michelin Farm, riparian forest, Malaise trap, 10.XI.2006, R.S. Santos coll.; 1 ♀, Brazil, SP, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, State Park of Vassununga, Brazilian savannah, 21°40’56”S 47°37’13”W, Malaise trap, 31.III.2006, A.M.P. Dias coll. 1 ♀, Brazil, SP, São Carlos, Embrapa-Pecuária Sudeste, Canchim farm, Brazilian savannah, 04.VII.1985. A.M.P. Dias coll.

Figures

FIGURES 23 – 27. Trieces spp. Trieces riodinis, ♀: 23, habitus, lateral. Trieces upermia, ♀: 24, habitus, lateral; 25, head, lateral. Trieces wardae, ♀: 26, habitus, lateral. Trieces wascia, ♀: 27, habitus, lateral.