Apanteles deplanatus Muesebeck, 1957 Fig. 203

Apanteles deplanatus Muesebeck, 1957: 24.

Type locality.

MEXICO, locality not specified (Muesebeck 1957).

Holotype.

♀, NMNH (examined).

Material Examined.

1 ♀, 1 ♂ (CNC), MEXICO: Nayarit, Tepic, Ingenio de Puga, 21-24.v.1984, Bennet, Browning & Melton.

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape and/or pedicel pale, flagellum dark or scape, pedicel, and flagellum pale. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mostly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna very short, barely or not extending beyond mesosoma length. Body in lateral view: distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally . Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.0 mm or less or 2.1-2.2 mm. Fore wing length: 2.0 mm or less or 2.1-2.2 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.6 or more. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.0 or less. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.7-1.9. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 2.6-2.7. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly smooth. Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 11 or 12 or 13 or 14. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.6-0.7. Propodeum areola: partially defined by carinae on posterior 0.3-0.5 of its length, widely open anteriorly. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly smooth except around the areola or partly sculptured, especially on posterior 0.5. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.9-3.1. Mediotergite 1 shape: clearly 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: 1.6-1.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: about same width throughout its length (?) or anterior width at most 2.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction) (?). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.6-0.7. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.4-1.6. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 0.8 or less. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 1.1-1.3. Pterostigma length/width: 2.6-3.0. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about 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.

Molecular data.

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

Biology/ecology.

Gregarious. Hosts: Crambidae, Diatraea considerata, Diatraea magnifactella .

Distribution.

Mexico. We have no reason to suspect that this species occurs in ACG.

Comments.

Austin and Dangerfield (1989) revised this species and provided additional photos and details.