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

Fig. 41 A – F

Type material.

Holotype. Guatemala • Female, CNC; El Quiché, 2 km S of Chichicastenango on Rio Tesoro ; 2,000 m; 11.ix.1987; M. Sharkey leg.; Voucher code: CNC 1196553 .

Diagnostic description.

F 15 length 1.2 × its height; 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 (but posterior margin sinuate), covering most surface of tergum; tegula white-yellow, clearly paler than brown humeral complex; pterostigma with pale spot on anterior 0.25; pro- and mesocoxae dark reddish brown; metafemur almost entirely yellow (small brown spot on posterior 0.1); metatibia dark brown to black on posterior 0.7; all laterotergites and sternites pale brown to dark brown; body length: 2.75 mm; fore wing length: 3.06 mm. Among all species with heavily sculptured T 1 and T 2, T 1 comparatively broad and T 2 rectangular, D. chichicastenango can be distinguished by the shape of F 15 and color of tegula, humeral complex, pterostigma; procoxa, mesocoxa, metafemur and metatibia, laterotergites and sternites. The closest species, D. felipechavarriai from Costa Rica, has paler coloration of legs and metasoma, and comparatively longer F 15.

Distribution.

Guatemala.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

No data.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality.

Figures

Figure 41. Dolichogenidea chichicastenango Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault holotype female CNC 1196553 A habitus, lateral B head, frontal C head, dorsal D wings E metasoma, dorsal F mesosoma, dorsal.