Alphomelon osvaldoespinozai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori, 2023

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Shimbori, Eduardo M., Whitfield, James B., Penteado-Dias, Angelica M., Shaw, Scott R., Boudreault, Caroline, Sones, Jayme, Perez, Kate, Brown, Allison, Manjunath, Ramya, Burns, John M., Hebert, P. D. N., Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2023, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Alphomelon Mason with the description of 30 new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), ZooKeys 1175, pp. 5-162 : 5

Alphomelon osvaldoespinozai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori sp. nov.

Figs 58A-E , 101A

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Alajuela, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Garzasol, 10°53'47.98"N, 85°17'24.11"W, 400m; 21.III.2007; ex. Vettius pica ; coll. Jose Perez; Voucher code: DHJPAR0030952; Host voucher code: 07-SRNP-40735.

Paratypes. Costa Rica • 3 females, 2 males, CNC; CNC1179920 (additional specimens in a gel capsule associated with that specimen), DHJPAR0030884, DHJPAR0031005, DHJPAR0038181, CNC1180004.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (ACG).

Biology.

Solitary, reared from Enosis immaculata , Eutychide ochus , Oxynthes corusca , Parphorus decora , Psoralis Janzen38, Vettius pica , and an unidentified hesperiid with provisional name "hespJanzen01 Janzen60".

DNA barcoding.

BINBOLD:AAJ2207.

Etymology.

Named in honor of Sr. Osvaldo Espinoza in honor of his decades of teamwork in the ACG parataxonomist team.

Diagnostic description.

White patch on gena: extending to occiput and onto clypeus. Tegula/humeral complex color: white/yellow. Mesonotum color: mostly dark brown to black. Metasoma color: mostly black or dark brown. Tarsal claws spines: 3. Pterostigma shape: comparatively more elongate, its length ≥ 3.0 × its central height and more triangular with its two lower margins more or less straight. T1 sculpture: entirely to mostly smooth. T1 central ridge: marked by weak carina. T2 sculpture: entirely to mostly smooth. Ovipositor sheaths length: longer than first segment of metatarsus. Body length: 3.8-4.7 mm. Fore wing length: 3.9-4.6 mm.

Figures

Figure 58. Alphomelon osvaldoespinozai Fernandez-Triana & Shimbori holotype female DHJPAR 0030952 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D propodeum and metasoma, dorsal E mesosoma, dorsal.

Figure 101. Parasite cocoons A Alphomelon osvaldoespinozai 08 - SRNP- 72533 - DHJ 447339 B Alphomelon petronariosae 15 - SRNP- 71861 - DHJ 727939.