Apanteles guadaluperodriguezae Fernandez-Triana sp. n. Fig. 122

Type locality.

COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincon Rain Forest, Estación Botarrama, 10.95991, -85.28298, 160m.

Holotype.

♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0038116. 2. Voucher: D.H.Janzen & W.Hallwachs, DB: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, 09-SRNP-68294.

Paratypes.

21 ♀, 3 ♂ (CNC, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database codes: DHJPAR0035392, 09-SRNP-68294, 10-SRNP-71302.

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum pale. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, 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: both pale. Pterostigma color: entirely pale or transparent, translucent. 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. Fore wing length: 2.0 mm or less or 2.1-2.2 mm. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.3-2.5. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.1-1.3. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.1-1.3. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.4-1.6. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 2.6-2.7. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, sparse punctures (separated by more than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8 or 9 or 10. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.4-0.5. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, but only partial or absent transverse carina. Propodeum background sculpture: partly sculptured, especially on anterior 0.5. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 4.1 or more. 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: 3.6-3.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; with 0-3 pleats visible. Ovipositor thickness: anterior width at most 2.0 × posterior width (beyond ovipositor constriction). Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.4-0.5. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.0 or less. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 0.9-1.0. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 1.1-1.3. Pterostigma length/width: 3.6 or more. 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: clearly outwards, inclined towards fore wing apex. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled.

Male. As in female, but with long antenna.

Molecular data.

Sequences in BOLD: 3, barcode compliant sequences: 3.

Biology/ecology.

Gregarious. Host: Crambidae, Piletosoma thialis .

Distribution.

Costa Rica, ACG.

Etymology.

We dedicate this species to Guadalupe Rodríguez in recognition of her diligent efforts for the ACG Programa de Ecoturismo.