Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2025

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Boudreault, Caroline, Whitfield, James B., Höcherl, Amelie, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2025, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Neotropical region, with the description of 102 new species, ZooKeys 1237, pp. 1-250 : 1-250

Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 133 A – F

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Sendero Arenales ; 10.92471, -85.46738; 1,080 m; 18.xii.2008; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; DHJPAR 0031312 . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 1 Female, CNC; DHJPAR 0033964 . 1 Female, 1 Male, CCDB; BIOUG 49263 - G 08 , BIOUG 59060 - H 03 .

Diagnostic description.

T 2 smooth; extensive orange coloration, including clypeus, anteromesoscutum (almost entirely, except for small dark spot near scutellar disc), antero-dorsal spot on mesopleuron, propleuron (partially), mesosternum (mostly) and two faint spots postero-laterally on T 1; pro- and mesocoxae yellow-white, metacoxa mostly yellow-white with brown spot on anterior 0.1–0.2; body length: 2.97–3.19 mm; fore wing length: 3.13–3.16 mm; BIN BOLD: AAM 5736 which is 2.56 % different from the nearest BIN in BOLD as of March 2022. The extensive orange coloration is sufficient to distinguish this species among all with smooth T 2 and pale pro- and mesocoxae.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BOLD: AAM 5736 (5 sequences, 3 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mrs. Shelley McSweeney in recognition of her decade-plus of weathering the demands of being a major part of the family with Mr. Eric Palola, as the two-country Executive Director of the NGO Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund and its integration with the Costa Rican government’s Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica.

Figures

Figure 133. Dolichogenidea shelleymcsweeneyae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0031312 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C propodeum & T 1, dorsal D wings E metasoma, dorsal F mesosoma, dorsal.