Prasmodon dondavisi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield, 2014

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Braet, Yves, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2014, Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 37, pp. 1-52 : 16-17

Prasmodon dondavisi Fernandez-Triana & Whitfield sp. n. Figs 24-28

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, ACG, Alajuela Province, Sector Rincón Rain Forest, Jacobo, 461m, 10.94076, -85.3177.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0040002. 2. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 09-SRNP-69586.

Paratype.

1 ♀, 9 ♂ (CNC, INHS, NMNH,). COSTA RICA, ACG database code: DHJPAR003990, DHJPAR0039992, DHJPAR0039994, DHJPAR0039995, DHJPAR0039998, DHJPAR004000, DHJPAR0040004, DHJPAR0040006, DHJPAR0040007, DHJPAR0040010.

Description.

Female. Body length 5.3-5.4 mm or 5.5-5.6 mm. Fore wing length 5.5-5.6 mm or 5.7-5.8 mm. Body color: meso- and metasoma entirely yellow-orange (with the exception of a very small black spot on axillar complex) ( Figs 24, 27, 28 ). Scape color: partially dark brown to black. Flagellomeres color: all flagellomeres brown to black ( Fig. 24 ). Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Mesotibia color: entirely yellow. Metatibia color: posterior 0.1-0.3 dark brown to black ( Fig. 26 ). Metatibia spurs color: yellow-orange. Metatarsus color: dark brown to black (except for anterior 0.7 or less of first metatarsomere). Fore wing color pattern: uniformly and entirely infumate (except for small hyaline area near veins (RS+M)b and 2M). Fore wing veins color: all veins dark brown. Pterostigma color: entirely dark brown. Hypostomal carina: not raised ( Fig. 25 ). Scutoscutellar sulcus: with 4 impressions ( Fig. 27 ). Areolet height÷vein r length (fore wing): 0.3 ×. Hind wing subbasal cell: mostly with setae. Hind tarsal claws: with pectination uniform, teeth thick and relatively evenly spaced. Shape of mediotergite 1: distinctly narrowing at around 0.5 its length, with both anterior and posterior margins clearly wider than its median width ( Fig. 28 ). Mediotergite 1 length÷width at posterior margin 3.1-3.5 × or 3.6-4.0 ×. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin÷length: 3.1-3.5 ×. Ovipositor sheaths length: 0.5 × as long as metatibia.

Male. Morphologically similar to females.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 17, barcode compliant sequences: 15 ( Fig. 105 ).

Biology and ecology.

Hosts: Crambidae feeding on Apocynaceae : Prenesta Janzen196, Prenesta Janzen195, Prenesta scyllalis DHJ03.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG rain forest.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Don Davis of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, in recognition of his decades of taxonomic knowledge and support, contributing to understanding the species-level and higher taxonomy of the Tineoidea and other small impossible moths of ACG, INBio and Costa Rica, as well as other parts of the world.

Figures

Figure 105. Neighbor-Joining tree (Saitou and Nei 1987) based on distances computed using the Kimura 2 - parameter method (Kimura 1980) of all Prasmodon sequences from the ACG. Tree tips are labeled with species name | specimen accession | host information | sequence length and ambiguities | type status.

Figures 24 - 28. Prasmodon dondavisi. 24 Habitus 25 Head and mesosoma (partially), lateral view 26 Metatibia 27 Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 28 Propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view.