Hymenoepimecis rafaelmartinezi Padua & Saeaeksjaervi, 2020

Padua, Diego Galvao de, Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari Eerikki, Monteiro, Ricardo Ferreira & Oliveira, Marcio Luiz de, 2020, Seven new species of spider-attacking Hymenoepimecis Viereck (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from Ecuador, French Guiana, and Peru, with an identification key to the world species, ZooKeys 935, pp. 57-92 : 57

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.935.50492
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scientific name	Hymenoepimecis rafaelmartinezi Padua & Saeaeksjaervi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Hymenoepimecis rafaelmartinezi Padua & Saeaeksjaervi sp. nov. Figures 12 View Figures 1–15 , 27 View Figures 16–30 , 42 View Figures 31–45 , 57 View Figures 46–60 , 72 View Figures 72–75 , 87 View Figures 76–90 , 104 View Figures 103–106

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from all other Hymenoepimecis by the combination of the following characters: 1) fore wing hyaline yellowish, with two blackish bands; 2) face sculptured below the insertion of antennae, with a longitudinal carina in the middle part; 3) occipital carina projected, not curved upwards, with a concavity in the apex dorsally; 4) pronotum with the pocket-like structure reduced longitudinally; 5) sternite I with a ventral spine-like projection posteriorly; 6) metasoma orange, with tergites VI+ black; 7) hind leg orange, with femur, tibia and tarsus back; 8) female with tarsal claw with basal lobe more or less square and apex of claw overtaking the lobe; 9) female with ovipositor 1.0-1.2 times as long as hind tibia.

Description.

Female. Body approx. [10.0] 9.0-10.0 mm; face [0.9] 0.8-1.1 times as broad as high, sculptured below the insertion of antennas, with longitudinal carina in the middle part and with few bristles spaced on the lower face; head in dorsal view with gena strongly narrowed behind eyes; posterior ocelli separated from eyes by [1.0] 0.8-1.0 times its own maximum diameter; occipital carina not curved upwards, with a concavity in the apex dorsally. Pronotum long, smooth and polished, with distance from tegula to head greater than [0.5] 0.5-0.6 times distance from tegula to hind margin of propodeum, and in anterior part with opening pocket-like structure reduced longitudinally; mesoscutum smooth and polished; scutellum, in profile, convex; mesopleuron smooth and polished, with anterodorsal and posterodorsal parts bearing sparse, fine setiferous punctures; metapleuron smooth and polished, rather uniformly covered with sparse, fine setiferous punctures; propodeum smooth, polished, with sparse, fine setiferous punctures and with lateral longitudinal carina present only posteriorly. Fore wing approx. [7.0] 7.0-8.0 mm; cu-a interstitial to the base of Rs&M; 2rs-m [0.3] 0.3-0.5 times as long as abscissa of M between 2rs-m and 2m-cu; abscissa of Cu1 meeting 1m-cu equidistant between Cu1a and Cu1b; hind wing with abscissa of Cu1 meeting cu-a closer to 1A that M. Hind leg with tibia + tarsus [0.55] 0.5-0.6 times the fore wing length; tarsal claw with basal lobe slightly more or less square, with apex of claw overtaking the lobe. Metasoma slender; tergite I approx. [1.2] 1.2-1.4 times as long as posteriorly width, centrally quite strongly convex with lateral carinae present only at extreme anterior end flanking the anterior concavity; sternite I with a ventral projection, spine-like, posteriorly; tergite II [1.1] 1.0-1.1 times as long as posteriorly width; tergites III-IV [1.0] 1.0-1.05 times as long as posteriorly width; ovipositor [1.15] 1.0-1.2 times as long as hind tibia.

Colour. Head black; clypeus with apical margin yellowish, labrum and mouthparts yellowish, except apex mandible black; antenna brown. Mesosoma orange. Fore and mid leg orange, the hind leg orange, with femur, tibia and tarsus black. Fore wing hyaline yellowish, fore wing hyaline yellowish, with apex blackish and with a blackish preapical band; pterostigma blackish brown; hind wing blackish with base and apex slightly yellowish. Metasoma orange, with tergite V with posterior margin black and tergites VI+ black; ovipositor brownish and sheath blackish brown.

Male.

(Fig. 104 View Figures 103–106 ). Similar to female in structure and colouration, but with body with 7.0-8.5 mm; face 0.9-1.0 times as broad as high; posterior ocelli separated from eyes by 0.8-0.9 times its own maximum diameter. Fore wing 6.0-7.0 mm; cu-a more or less interstitial to the base Rs&M; 2rs-m 0.3-0.4 times as long as abscissa of M between 2rs-m and 2m-cu. Tarsal claw tarsal claw simple. Metasoma slender; tergite I 1.3-1.6 times as long as posteriorly width; tergite II 1.0-1.1 times as long as posteriorly width; tergites III-IV 0.95-1.1 times as long as posteriorly width.

Distribution.

Peru (Fig. 111 View Figures 107–112 ).

Biological notes.

Host unknown.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to a young boy called Rafael Martinez, a friend of Yves Braet. Yves Braet has sent us many Darwin wasp samples from French Guiana, and Rafael has helped Yves in science.

Type material.

Holotype ♀. Peru, Loreto, Maynas, Qda. Aguablanca, 151 m., Terrazas medias, 18M 0521603E/9676612N, 24.i.2009, Malaise trap (F. Meza leg.), ZMUT. Paratypes: idem holotype, but 18M 534463E/9584008N, Bosque rebereño, 115 m., 23.vii. 2008, Manual (C. Castillo leg.), 1♂ and 1♀, ZMUT; idem, but Rio Itaya, Colinas fuertmnt. disect., 18M 0635650E/9528654N, 127 m., 11.ii.2009, Malaise trap (W. Paredes leg.), 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but Rio Copalyacu, 03°42'59"S, 75°26'00"W, 165 m., 8.xii.2009, Malaise trap (L. Sulca leg.), 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but Rio Urituyacu, ca. Ayahuasca, 04°09'46"S, 76°00'49"W, 146 m., 19.xi.2009, Manual, 1♀, ZMUT; idem, but Mrg. Izq. Rio Nanay, Colinas fuertmnt. disect., 18M 0574494E/9614852N, 163 m., 23.i.2009, Flight-intercept trap (W. Paredes leg.), 1♀, ZMUT; idem, but Iquitos area, Allpahuayo, 2-18.viii.2000, clay, Malaise trap ( Sääksjärvi et al. leg.), APHI, H1/11, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 19.ix-4.x.2000, APHI, J2/13, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 20.ii-8.iii.2000, APHI, H2/2, 1♂, ZMUT; 17.x-8.xi.2000, APHI, H2/15, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but APHI, H1/15, 2♂♂, ZMUT; idem, but 3-22.v.2000, APHI, H1/6, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 18.viii-14.ix.2000, APHI, G2/12, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but APHI, H2/12, 2♂♂ and 1♀, ZMUT; idem, but 8.iii-24.iii.2000, APHI, H1/3, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 22.v-11.vi.2000, APHI, H1/7, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 17.iv-3.v.2000, APHI, H1/5, 2♂♂, ZMUT; idem, but 2-24.iii.2000, APHI, G1/3, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 30°57'84"S, 73°25'39"W, 5-11.xii.2011 ( Gómez & Sääksjärvi et al. leg.), 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but 7-13.xi.2011, 1♂, ZMUT; Dept. of Loreto, Iquitos area, Allpahuayo, Malaise trap, (I.E. Sääksjärvi et al. leg.), H1, 23.i.2001, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but H2(12), 14.ix.2000, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but I1(16), 15.xii.2000, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but G1(15), 8.xi.2000, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but H1, 1.xii.2000, 76, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but H1, 23.i.2001, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but G2(7), 11.vii.2000, 97, 1♂, ZMUT; idem, but I1, 1.xii.2000, 42, 1♀, ZMUT; idem, but J1, 1.xii.2000, 16, 1♀, ZMUT.

Comments.

Hymenoepimecis rafaelmartinezi sp. nov. closely resembles H. uberensis Pádua & Onody, 2015, mainly by having wings bicoloured, face sculptured below the insertion of antennas, with longitudinal carina in the middle part and with a few bristles spaced on the lower face, and by sternite I with a ventral spine-like projection posteriorly. It differs from H. uberensis mainly by having the fore wing hyaline yellowish with two black bands and hind leg orange, with femur, tibia and tarsus black (fore wing blackish, with yellowish hyaline band between junction of vein R1 up to pterostigma until half vein M and hind leg entirely black in H. uberensis ).