Notiospathius cundinamarcensis Rodríguez-Jiménez, 2016

Rodriguez-Jimenez, Andrea & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2016, Taxonomic synopsis of Notiospathius Matthews & Marsh, 1973 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4132 (2), pp. 151-206 : 177-178

Notiospathius cundinamarcensis Rodríguez-Jiménez sp. nov.

( Figs 73–78 )

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from others by the following combination of characters. Temple narrow and swollen behind eye. Metapleuron rugose. Fore wing vein 2cu-a as a nebulous line, but never completely tubular. Hind wing vein m-cu tubular. Hind coxa with basoventral tubercle and the mostly dark brown. Femora with a rounded protrusion in dorso-medial view. Second metasomal tergum costulate-rugulose and mostly dark brown with pale yellow strip apically. Suture between second and third metasomal tergum, weak and straight.

Description female. Body length: 6.00 mm.

Color. Head mainly honey yellow-brown. Eye orbits yellow. Malar space yellow. Palpi white. Periocellar area dark brown. Scape yellow with a longitudinal dark brown stripe. Pedicel yellow with a wide longitudinal dark brown stripe. Antennae broken. Visible flagellomeres brown. Mesosoma mainly dark brown-black-honey. Lateral mesoscutal lobes honey. Median mesoscutal lobe honey. Venter of mesosoma honey. Pronotum honey to dark brown. Propodeum black, honey at apex. First tergum honey-dark brown. Second metasomal tergum mostly dark brown with pale yellow strip apically. Third tergum basal half pale yellow, apical half brown-dark brown. Fourth tergum brown to dark brown. Fifth tergum brown-yellow. Sixth tergum brown. Remaining terga pale yellow-brown except the last one, which is pale yellow. Fore and middle femur pale yellow basally turning yellow-light brown apically. Fore and middle tibia yellow-light brown. Hind coxa dark brown with yellow apically. Hind trochanter yellow-light brown. Hind trochantellus yellow-brown with at apex honey. Hind femur brown, pale yellow basally. Hind tibia pale yellow-dark brown-honey. Hind tarsi brown-honey. Wings dusky. Veins mainly brown. Tegula yellow. Stigma dark brown.

Head. Clypeus smooth-weakly rugose. Head 0.80 x higher than wide. Face transversely costate laterally, median area finely coriaceous-costate. Face minimum width/maximum width ratio 0.86. Frons transversely striate. Vertex transversely striate. Eye 1.20 x higher than wide. Ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus. Malar space 0.36 x eye height in lateral view. Temple/eye length ratio in dorsal view 0.51. Temple swollen behind eye and narrow. Supraclypeal area 0.40 x head height in frontal view. Gena-temple area smooth. Scape 0.60 x first flagellomere length. Flagellomeres 16 (antennae broken).

Mesosoma. Pronotum costate laterally and rugose ventrally. Pronotal groove distinct. Pronotal groove laterally scrobiculate-smooth. Propleuron with scrobiculate area, weakly coriaceous-weakly rugose-smooth. Mesoscutal lobes strongly costate-rugose along lateral edges, coriaceous medially. Notauli scrobiculate, not reaching the end of mesoscutum. Mesoscutum medially strongly rugose. Scutellum (scutellar disc) very weakly coriaceous-weakly rugose. Subalar groove distinct and costate. Precoxal sulcus broad, deep and scrobiculate; length 0.82 mesopleuron length. Mesopleuron costate dorsally, costate-rugose medially and rugose ventrally. Venter of mesosoma smooth, very weakly coriaceous. Metapleuron rugose. Propodeum rugose without two sublateral, longitudinal and complete carinae, and without a median, longitudinal and complete carinae. Propodeal apico-lateral corners absent. Propodeal spine or tooth over hind coxa absent.

Wings: fore wing. 2RS/2M ratio 0.36. Vein m-cu meeting vein RS+Ma distinctly before vein 2RS. Vein (RS+M)b distinct. Vein (RS+M)b/2RS ratio 0.19. Vein r 0.10 length of vein 3 RSa. Vein 1cu-a interstitial to vein 1M. Vein 2cu-a as a nebulous line, but never completely tubular. Hind wing. Vein M+CU/1M ratio 0.48. Vein m-cu tubular. Vein cu-a 0.09 length of 1M. Vein r-m/1M ratio 0.27. Vein SC+R complete.

Legs. Hind coxa dorsally costate-weakly costate. Ventral part of hind coxa costate-weakly coriaceous. Hind coxa with basoventral tubercle. Hind coxa 0.60 length of hind femur. Femora with a rounded protrusion in dorsomedial view. Hind femur in dorsal view weakly granulate.

Metasoma. Basal sternal plate length/first tergum length ratio 0.62. First tergum 4.06 x longer than apical width. First tergum costate-rugose with microsculpture coriaceous. Second tergum costulate-rugulose. Third tergum finely costulate-rugulose on basal half, smooth on apical half. Suture between second and third tergum present. Suture between second and third tergum weak. Suture between second and third tergum straight. Fourth tergum weakly finely costulate-rugulose-smooth; remainder of terga smooth. Ovipositor 6.80 mm long. Ovipositor 1.86 x length of metasoma. Ovipositor 4.20 x length of first tergum.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Colombia.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype female ( ICN). Colombia, Cundinamarca, Tena vereda Patio Bonito. Laguna de Pedro Palo. 2100m, 11.x. 93, J. Vargas. y D. Campos Leg. ICN 0 40157.

Etymology. The name of this species refers to Cundinamarca, the department in Colombia where this new species was collected.

Figures

FIGURES 73 – 78. Notiospathius cundinamarcensis sp. nov.: 73) habitus, 74) head in dorsal view, 75) mesosoma in lateral view, 76) hind coxa, 77) mesoscutum, and 78) metasoma in dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.