Notiospathius venezuelae López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón, 2012

Rodriguez-Jimenez, Andrea & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2016, Taxonomic synopsis of Notiospathius Matthews & Marsh, 1973 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4132 (2), pp. 151-206 : 203-204

Notiospathius venezuelae López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón, 2012

Notiospathius venezuelae López-Estrada & Zaldívar-Riverón, 2012: 56

Variation with respect to holotype. Female. Body length: 4.80 mm. Color. Malar space pale yellow. Periocellar area brown-dark brown. Scape honey yellow with a longitudinal brown stripe. Pedicel honey yellow with a longitudinal brown stripe. Pronotum brown to black. First tergum dark brown to black. Fifth tergum basally dark brown apical honey yellow. Sixth tergum basally dark brown apical honey yellow. Fore and middle femur pale yellow at apex and base with light brown apically. Fore and middle tibia yellow. Hind femur pale yellow basally, dark brown apically. Hind tarsi light brown. Tegula honey yellow-brown. Stigma dark brown.

Head. Head 0.70 x higher than wide. Face transversely costate. Face minimum width/maximum width ratio 0.89. Frons transversely costate. Vertex transversely costate. Eye 1.26 x higher than wide. Ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus. Temple/eye length ratio in dorsal view 0.36. Supraclypeal area 0.40 x head height in frontal view. Gena-temple area smooth-weakly costate-coriaceous. Scape 0.60 x first flagellomere length.

Mesosoma. Pronotum costate-granulate laterally and rugose ventrally. Pronotal groove laterally weakly scrobiculate-coriaceous. Propleuron costate coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous-weakly coriaceous-smooth ventrally. Notauli reaching the end of mesoscutum. Precoxal sulcus broad, weakly scrobiculate. Precoxal sulcus length 0.85 mesopleuron length. Mesopleuron costate dorsally, costate-granulate medially and granulate ventrally. Venter of mesosoma granulate. Propodeum with two sublateral, longitudinal and complete carinae. Propodeal apico-lateral corners distinct, or indistinct. Propodeal tooth over hind coxa, or indistinct.

Wings: fore wing. 2RS/2M ratio 0.95. Vein (RS+M)b/2RS ratio 0.17. Vein 1cu-a interstitial to vein 1M, or slightly antefurcal to vein 1M. Hind wing. Vein M+CU/1M ratio 0.56. Vein m-cu nebulous. Vein cu-a 0.18 length of 1M. Vein r-m/1M ratio 0.18. Vein SC+R complete.

Legs. Hind coxa dorsally costate-rugose. Ventral part of hind coxa rugose. Hind coxa 0.60 length of hind femur.

Metasoma. Basal sternal plate length/first tergum length ratio 0.76. First tergum 2.60 x longer than apical width. First tergum costate-rugose. Second tergum costate at extreme base, remainder of terga weakly costate. Third tergum weakly coriaceous-smooth. Suture between second and third tergum absent. Fourth tergum and fifth weakly coriaceous-smooth basally, remainder of terga smooth. Ovipositor 2.10 mm long. Ovipositor 0.80 x length of metasoma. Ovipositor 2.21 x length of first tergum.

Distribution. Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. Female (IAvH), Colombia, Putumayo, PNN La Paya, Loma Alta, 0º6'S 74º58'W, 350m, malaise, 15–30.viii.2004, M. Trejos Leg. M.4949, IAvH-E 113953.