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

Fig. 122 A – F

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Cerro Pedregal ; 10.92767, -85.47449; 1,080 m; 22.xi.2008; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0033753 .

Diagnostic description.

F 15 2.0 × as long as wide; T 1 and T 2 heavily sculptured with strong longitudinal striae; T 1 length <1.5 × T 1 width at posterior margin; T 2 broadly rectangular and large, covering most surface of tergum; metafemur mostly brown; metatibia dark brown to black on posterior 0.5–0.7; body length: 2.83 mm; fore wing length: 3.00 mm; BIN BOLD: AAM 5843 , which is 5.93 % different from the nearest BIN in BOLD as of March 2022. Among all species with heavily sculptured T 1 and T 2, T 1 comparatively broad and T 2 rectangular, D. rodrigogamezi can be distinguished by the color of metafemur and metatibia, and length of F 15.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAM 5843 (one sequence, barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Dr. Rodrigo Gámez of San Jose, Costa Rica and of the Universidad de Costa Rica in honor of his decades of support for Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica and for non-damaging biodevelopment of wild Costa Rican biodiversity.

Figures

Figure 122. Dolichogenidea rodrigogamezi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0033753 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D mesosoma, dorsal E metasoma, dorsal F ovipositor, lateral.