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

Figs 24 A – F , 25 A – F , 26 A – F , 155 B

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Sendero Cima ; 10.93328, - 85.45729; 1,460 m; 29.v.2000; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0012553 . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 6 Females, 4 Males, CNC; DHJPAR 0012551 , DHJPAR 0012556 , DHJPAR 0012561 , DHJPAR 0012724 , DHJPAR 0012732 , DHJPAR 0013471 , DHJPAR 0031468 , DHJPAR 0031545 , DHJPAR 0034157 , DHJPAR 0033923 .

Diagnostic description.

T 1 length medially ~ 3.0 × its width at posterior margin; T 2 more or less trapezoidal in shape; T 2 mostly smooth but with some sculpture around margins; tegula and humeral complex yellow; pro- and mesocoxae yellow-white or yellow; metacoxa mostly yellow with dark brown spot on anterior 0.3; metafemur mostly yellow (thin brown area dorsally on apical 0.2–0.3); metatibia brown to dark brown; body length 2.35–2.65 mm; fore wing length: 2.65–3.03 mm. Among all species with T 2 mostly to entirely smooth and pro- and mesocoxae pale, D. annlisterudae can be distinguished by T 1 shape, T 2 shape and sculpture, and color of tegula, humeral complex and coxae, mesofemur and metatibia.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BINs BOLD: AAB 5549 (52 sequences, 45 barcode compliant), and BOLD: ACF 0272 (16 sequences, 9 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named after Anne Listerud, neighbor to DHJ and WH in Philadelphia, who has helped the inventory in many ways.

Notes.

Specimens of BIN BOLD: AAB 5549 have stigma centrally whitish, T 2 slightly less sculptured (almost entirely smooth), and F 15 comparatively shorter (its length ~ 0.5 length of F 16); whereas the three specimens of BIN BOLD: ACF 0272 have entirely brown stigma, T 2 slightly more sculptured (only centrally smooth), and F 15 comparatively longer (its length ~ 0.7 length of F 16). However, those differences are very subtle and only three females of each BIN were available for study. They were collected by Malaise traps in the same locality (1 km apart from each other) and there is no host data for any of them. Because their DNA barcodes are 98.72 % similar (1.28 % bp different) we here consider them to represent the same species.

Figures

Figure 24. Dolichogenidea annlisterudae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female DHJPAR 0012553 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D mesosoma, dorsal E metasoma, dorsal F metasoma, lateral.

Figure 25. Dolichogenidea annlisterudae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault paratype female DHJPAR 0012551 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D mesosoma, dorsal E metasoma, dorsal F ovipositor, lateral.

Figure 26. Dolichogenidea annlisterudae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault paratype male DHJPAR 0012561 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C wings D mesosoma, dorsal E metasoma, dorsal F metasoma, lateral.

Figure 155. Parasite Cocoons of A Dolichogenidea anniapicadoae Janzen 25 09 - SRNP- 35297 - DHJ 470081 B Dolichogenidea annlisterudae Janzen 272 13 - SRNP- 31297 - DHJ 701517.