Dolichogenidea mehdirheljari 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 mehdirheljari Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 92 A – F

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Santa Rosa, Area Administrativa ; 10.83764, -85.61871; 295 m; 25.xii.2008; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0031851 .

Diagnostic description.

Overall body mostly shiny and smooth, including scutellar disc and most of propodeum (except for weak carinae defining a partial areola); T 1 evenly narrowing from anterior to posterior margin and ~ 3.0 × its width at posterior margin; T 1 and T 2 mostly smooth; hypopygium mostly inflexible, with only small, apical, reduced (one or two) pleats; ovipositor sheath 0.55 × as long as metatibia length; legs mostly dark brown (except for tibiae and tarsi of first two pairs of legs); body length: 1.80 mm; fore wing length: 1.90 mm. Among all species with dark coxae and smooth or mostly smooth T 1 and T 2, D. mehdirheljari is distinguished by very short ovipositor sheath, shape of T 1, and small body size.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAM 5852 (1 sequence, barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mr. Mehdi Rheljari in recognition of his willingness to support a Malaise trap insect inventory of his tropical dry forest on his ecologically oriented hotel Kasiiya on the Nicoya coast of Guanacaste Province for 2022–2023.

Figures

Figure 92. Dolichogenidea mehdirheljari Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0031851 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C head, dorsal D wings E metasoma, dorsal, F mesosoma, dorsal.