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

Fig. 45 A – G

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; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0031280 .

Diagnostic description.

T 1 length medially ~ 3.0 × its width at posterior margin; T 2 more or less trapezoidal in shape; T 2 sculptured around margins, centrally smooth; hypopygium with single, small pleat; ovipositor sheath <0.5 × metatibia length; all coxae brown to dark brown; metafemur entirely to mostly yellow (at most with darker spot on posterior 0.3 or less); body length 2.59 mm; fore wing length: 2.56 mm. Among all species with dark coxae and T 2 at least partially smooth, D. dole can be distinguished by its almost unpleated hypopygium and short ovipositor sheath.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAM 5739 (1 sequence, barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of the Dole Pineapple Company plantation in the central northern lowlands of what used to be Costa Rican Caribbean coastal rain forest, for being willing to support Malaise trapping for all insects for the Costa Rican BioAlfa DNA barcode library that live in the plantation and adjacent secondary successional rain forest in 2022, and to understand the biodiversity dynamics of the crop itself.

Figures

Figure 45. Dolichogenidea dole Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0031280 A habitus, lateral B head, lateral C wings D ovipositor, lateral E mesosoma, dorsal F metasoma, dorsal G propodeum, dorsal.