Centistidea striata Penteado-Dias, 1999

Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2025, The species of Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Miracinae) from Brazil, European Journal of Taxonomy 1004, pp. 190-210 : 206

Centistidea striata Penteado-Dias, 1999

Centistidea striata Penteado-Dias, 1999: 192 ; holotype in Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil (not examined).

Mirax (Centistidea) striata – Papp 2013: 127.

Centistidea striata – Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis

Body length 1.6 mm; head and mesosoma honey yellow; head wider than mesosoma, mostly smooth and shining, occiput striate; antenna about as long as body, first flagellar segment distinctly longer than second segment; notauli impressed on less than anterior third of mesoscutum, largely absent on disc; scutellar sulcus deep, not foveolate, mesoscutum and scutellum weakly punctate; propodeum with a complete median longitudinal carina and a few irregular transverse rugae on either side of carina; vein r almost completely obliterated; sclerotized part of T2 reduced to a very narrow longitudinal strip which is widened apically; T1 and T2 laterotergites membranous and finely longitudinally striate; T3 finely longitudinally striate basally (following Penteado-Dias 1999).

Host

Leucoptera coffeella (Guérin-Menèville, 1842) ( Lepidoptera : Lyonetiidae ) ( Penteado-Dias 1999).

Distribution

Brazil.

Remarks

Penteado-Dias (1999) mentioned that it was separated from C. insularis , both sharing the same host, Leucoptera coffeella , by the yellow mesosoma, the length of the side of ocellar triangle to OOL and the color of the third and following tergites. But the distinction does not seem that obvious based on our examination of the paratypes of C. insularis here. Based on our examination, C. insularis can be better distinguished by the less developed notauli on the mesoscutum, not foveolate scutellar sulcus and the shape of T2.