Apanteles manuelpereirai Fernanez-Triana sp. n. Figs 61, 254

Apanteles Rodriguez09 (Smith et al. 2006). Interim name provided by the authors.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Pasmompa, 440m, 11.01926, -85.40997.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Pasmompa, 28.vi.2004, 440m, 11.01926, -85.40997, 04-SRNP-33763. 2. DHJPAR0003041.

Paratypes.

24 ♀, 15 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, INBIO, INHS, NMNH). COSTA RICA: ACG database codes: 98-SRNP-4293, 01-SRNP-5181, 01-SRNP-9182, 02-SRNP-4541, 02-SRNP-5615, 02-SRNP-6229, 03-SRNP-5963, 03-SRNP-7197, 03-SRNP-20163, 03-SRNP-20799, 03-SRNP-20933, 03-SRNP-21562, 03-SRNP-21736, 03-SRNP-21892, 04-SRNP-33763.

Description.

Female. Body color: head and mesosoma mostly dark, metasoma with some tergites and/or most of sternites pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum pale, rarely scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, pale, dark or pale, pale, pale. 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: both pale. Pterostigma color: dark. 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. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally . Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.7-2.8 mm, 2.9-3.0 mm, rarely 3.1-3.2 mm. Fore wing length: 2.9-3.0 mm, 3.1-3.2 mm, rarely 2.7-2.8 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: 2.3-2.5. 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: 2.8-2.9. 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: 0.6-0.7. 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, rarely slightly widening from anterior margin to 0.7-0.8 mediotergite length (where maximum width is reached), then narrowing towards posterior margin. 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: 3.6-3.9. 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: 0.8-0.9, rarely 0.6-0.7. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.7-1.9. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.4-1.6. 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: 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. Similar to females except for darker legs and metasoma.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 42, barcode compliant sequences: 38.

Biology/ecology.

Gregarious (Fig. 254). Host: Hesperiidae, Telemiades antiope .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Manuel Pereira recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Parataxónomos and Estación Biológica Cacao.