Notiospathius sculpturatus (Enderlein)

Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro & Jesús-Bonilla, Vladimir Salvador De, 2010, Redescription of species of the Neotropical parasitoid Notiospathius Mathews et Marsh (Braconidae: Doryctinae) based on their nineteenth and early twentieth century types, Zootaxa 2543, pp. 31-42 : 38-39

Notiospathius sculpturatus (Enderlein) ( Figs 3 C, D)

Psenobolus sculpturatus Enderlein, 1912

Female (based on description). — Colour: mesosoma black to dark brown, metasoma missing; head dark brown with eye orbits and malar space yellow; scape and pedicel yellow; antennae missing; palpi white. Wings slightly dusky, veins and stigma brown, tegula yellow; legs missing except one middle leg, with coxa yellow, femur brown, apically and basally yellow; tibia brown, basally yellow; tarsomeres brown. Length of mesosoma, 2.0 mm. Head: temple about 0.22 times eye width; face transversally costate; frons rugose; vertex striate; temple and gena smooth; malar space 0.33 times eye eight; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; scape and pedicel smooth. Mesosoma: propleuron and pronotum costate-rugose; median and lateral mesonotal lobes coriaceous, edges costate; notauli complete, scrobiculate and wide; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous medially, coriaceous-tranversally costate ventrally; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; sternaulus scrobiculate and wide; propodeum entirely rugose, without distinct median carina or areola, with poorly defined spines over hind coxa and at apical-lateral corners. Metasoma: absent.

Male. Unknown.

Holotype. Colombia: female, “ Columbia. E. Pehlke”. MIZ 187253.

Comments. The holotype of this species lacks the metasoma, and therefore some of the key features that are employed for species diagnosis cannot be recorded.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Notiospathius leucacrocera: A) mesosoma, lateral view; B) metasoma, dorsal view. Notiospathius sculpturatus: C) mesosoma, lateral view; D) mesosoma, dorsal view.