Apanteles edwinapui Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Figs 54, 247

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Cacao, Estación Gongora, 570m, 10.88700, -85.47443.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0005342. 2. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Cacao, Estación Gongora Site, 9.viii.1995, 10.88700 N, -85.47443 W, 570m, DHJPAR0005342.

Paratypes.

18 ♀, 5 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA: ACG database codes:, DHJPAR0020609.

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark or pale, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, mostly pale but posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly dark, with small pale area centrally. Fore wing veins color: mostly dark (a few veins may be unpigmented). Antenna length/body length: antenna shorter than body (head to apex of metasoma), not extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length, rarely antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally . Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.9-3.0 mm, 3.1-3.2 mm or 3.3-3.4 mm. Fore wing length: 3.1-3.2 mm, 3.3-3.4 mm or 3.5-3.6 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0-2.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.9-3.1. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0-2.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine–like seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly punctured. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4-0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: partly sculptured, especially on anterior 0.5. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.6-2.8. Mediotergite 1 shape: mostly parallel–sided for 0.5-0.7 of its length, then narrowing posteriorly so mediotergite anterior width>1.1 × posterior width. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: with some sculpture near lateral margins and/or posterior 0.2-0.4 of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 3.2-3.5. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: inflexible (without a folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area); with no pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width 3.0-5.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.6-0.7. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.3 or more. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 0.9-1.0. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.7-0.8. Pterostigma length/width: 3.1-3.5. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma, rarely clearly beyond half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.

Male. As in female, but with darker coloration, especially on metafemur.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 2, barcode compliant sequences: 2.

Biology/ecology.

Gregarious (Fig. 247). Hosts: Hesperiidae, Astraptes inflatio, Astraptes fruticibus .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Edwin Apu in recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Parataxónomos and Estación Biológica Leiva of ACG.