Apanteles christianzunigai Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Figs 105, 277

Apanteles Rodriguez86 (Smith et al. 2006). Interim name provided by the authors.

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Sendero Trichoptera, 655m, 10.98571, -85.41869.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 09-SRNP-32760. 2. DHJPAR0039745.

Paratypes.

3 ♀, 1 ♂ (CNC, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR00215, DHJPAR0038242, DHJPAR0038323, DHJPAR0038349.

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. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, dark, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex dark. Pterostigma color: dark. Fore wing veins color: mostly dark (a few veins may be unpigmented). Antenna length/body length: 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): 3.1-3.2 mm, rarely 3.3-3.4 mm. Fore wing length: 2.9-3.0 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7-1.9. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 3.2 or more. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.7-1.9. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.3-2.5. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 3.2-3.3. 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: with punctures near margins, central part mostly smooth. 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: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 3.2-3.4. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less parallel–sided . Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.0-2.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: with some sculpture, mostly near posterior margin. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width at most 2.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.8-0.9 or 1.0-1.1. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.0-2.2. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.1-1.3. 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. 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.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 12, barcode compliant sequences: 12.

Biology/ecology.

Solitary (Fig. 277). Hosts: Elachistidae, five species of Stenoma .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Comments.

This species is characterized by the combination of broadly rectangular mediotergite 2 (its width at posterior margin 2.2 × its length), ovipositor sheaths shorter than metatibia, and ovipositor relatively thin, with basal width less than 2.0 × its apical width after constriction.

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Christian Zúñiga in recognition of his diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Ecoturismo.