Centistidea insularis ( Muesebeck, 1937 )

Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2025, The species of Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Miracinae) from Brazil, European Journal of Taxonomy 1004, pp. 190-210 : 198-200

Centistidea insularis ( Muesebeck, 1937)

Fig. 3

Mirax insularis Muesebeck, 1937: 139 ; holotype in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, USA (USNM) (holotype images examined on the website of USNM; paratypes examined).

Mirax insularis – Shenefelt 1973: 677. — Papp 2013: 108 , figs 45–54.

Centistidea insularis – Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis

Body length 1.5 mm; yellow or yellow-brown with dark brown or piceous area ( Fig. 3a ); temple rounded ( Fig. 3b ); OOL about as long as one side of ocellar triangle; antenna ( Fig. 3d ) about the length of body, 1 st flagellomere conspicuously longer than 2 nd; mesosoma slightly wider than high, mesoscutum, scutellum, and pleura smooth ( Fig. 3e–f ); notauli distinctly impressed on more than anterior third of mesoscutum; scutellar sulcus deep, minutely foveolate ( Fig. 3e ); propodeum ( Fig. 3h ) with a complete median longitudinal carina and a few irregular transverse on either side of this; sclerotized plate of T1 very narrow ( Fig. 3l ); plate of T2 reduced to a very narrow longitudinal strip on basal half, strongly widened apically ( Fig. 3i ); ovipositor sheath shorter than hind basitarsus(following Muesebeck 1937).

Type material

Paratypes

GUADELOUPE • 1 ♀; “ Mirax insularis ♀ Mues. Det. Muesebeck // W.I. July 36 / F. Sein Jr. // Paratype No 52019, U.S. N.M // lot No. 36-26032 // Pres by Imp.Inst.Ent.Brit.Mus.1937.455 // reared from coffee leaf miner”; Jul. 1936; NHMUK010639526 ; NHMUK • 3 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; NHMUK010639492 , NHMUK010639494 , NHMUK010639497 ; NHMUK .

Other material examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂; Londrina; Feb. 1992; A. Menezes Jr. leg.; ex Leucoptera coffeella pupa; NHMUK010639535 ; NHMUK .

COSTA RICA • 1 ♀; “ Guanacaste Pv Sta. Rose NP Hacienda-1-O”; Janzen and Gauld leg.; 1 Jun.–22 Jul. 1985; NHMUK010639517 ; NHMUK .

DOMINICA • 1 ♀; “Ridgefield // Nov. 1968 // FD Bennett leg. // No. 644 (C I E Coll., No.19575) // Pres by Com.Inst.Ent.Brit.Mus.1964-2 // det. Muesebeck, 1937 ”; NHMUK010639493 ; NHMUK • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; No. 645; NHMUK010639512 ; NHMUK .

Host

Leucoptera coffeella (Guérin-Méneville & Perrottet, 1842) ( Lepidoptera : Lyonetiidae ) [on Coffea arabica L.] (according to original literature and labels under the Brazil material). Also “coffee leaf miner” on the Guadeloupe paratype labels is likely to denote L. coffeella .

Distribution

New to Brazil and Costa Rica; Dominica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico.

Remarks

The hypopygium does not reach the apex of the metasoma in specimens we have examined, and specimens from Costa Rica are slightly darker (brown).

Figures

Fig. 3. Centistidea insularis (Muesebeck, 1937), ♀, paratype (NHMUK010639526). a. Habitus, lateral view and type labels. b. Head, dorsal view. c. Head, frontal view. d. Antenna. e. Mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view. f. Mesopleuron. g. Wings. h. Propodeum. i. T1–T3. j. Hind leg. k. Ovipositor sheath. l. T1.