Centistidea brasiliensis (Brues, 1912)

Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2025, The species of Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Miracinae) from Brazil, European Journal of Taxonomy 1004, pp. 190-210 : 195

Centistidea brasiliensis (Brues, 1912)

Mirax brasiliensis Brues, 1912: 205 ; holotype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (not examined).

Mirax brasiliensis – Shenefelt 1973: 677. — Braet 2006: 167.

Mirax (Centistidea) brasiliensis – Papp 2013: 124 , figs 14–21.

Centistidea brasiliensis – Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis

Female

Body length 2.2 mm; head and mesosoma pale honey-yellow, metasoma somewhat lighter; head twice as wide as long dorsally; median line of face almost carinate; antenna as long as body length, with flagellar joints beyond first not less than 2.5 × as long as wide; malar space very short, with furrow; notauli evenly deep, distinctly crenulate and extending to two-thirds of mesoscutum; scutellar sulcus curved, deep, crenulate; propodeum irregularly areolate with a median carina that bifurcates behind, a straight transverse carina behind, and a curved carina on each side at the base which marks off a large square space at each lateral angle; wing with broad pterostigma, marginal cell entirely wanting; submedian cell longer than median by the length of the transverse median vein; T2 twice as broad as long, longitudinally striate; ovipositor as long as head height, its sheath broad, pilose, piceous with pale yellow base (following Brues 1912 and Papp 2013).

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

Brazil, French Guiana.

Remarks

Based on Brues (1912) and Papp (2013), this species is peculiar among its congeners for its distinctly longer and deeper notauli on the mesoscutum.