Hoplognathoca jinotega Cambra, Quintero & Brothers, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cambra, Roberto A.
name: Quintero, Diomedes
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Hoplognathoca
Hoplognathoca jinotega

description: Hoplognathoca jinotega Cambra, Quintero & Brothers, sp. nov.
(Figs 1, 2, 3)
Diagnosis. FEMALE. The clypeus produced anteriorly into a tongue-like process (Fig. 2), and the mandible base with a reduced laminate process ventrally (Fig. 3) distinguish this species from others in the genus.
Description. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 16.5 mm. Color: integument mostly dark red to red, mandible apex and ventral base black; T2 with two large orange-yellow maculae, narrowly connected medially (Fig. 1); tibial spurs white. Frons mostly with sparse black setae; vertex with dense golden setae concealing integument; gena, clypeus, hypostoma, scape and mandible, with pale golden to white setae; dorsum of pronotum with black setae, lateral area with white setae; mesonotum with black setae except a broad transverse golden pubescent band; propodeum antero-medial area with black setae, laterally with golden setae; propodeum declivity area with pale setae; mesopleuron, metapleuron, and side of propodeum with short pale golden to white pubescence; T1 with pale golden setae except apex with black setae medially; T2 with black setae except for lateral area with pale golden setae and two discal integumental spots with golden setae; T3–T5 with dense pale golden setae but T5 with few black setae in middle and T6 broadly interrupted in middle by black setae; T6 basal half mostly with pale golden setae; S1–S6 with pale golden setae.
Head: large, rectangular; with fine punctures mostly hidden on vertex by pubescence; eye medium-sized, distance between posterior margin of eye and postero-lateral angle about 1.8 × maximum diameter of eye; scrobal carina present, short, not reaching base of antennal tubercle, and elevated laterally to form a process or spine; genal carina present, posterior end forming an incurved spine (Fig. 3); clypeus produced anteriorly into a tongue-like process (Fig. 2); hypostoma with large subconical projection between anterior end of genal carina and oral fossa (Fig. 3); antenna slender, first flagellomere 3.5 × as long as second in dorsal view; mandible with apex bidentate, base ventrally with broad curved expansion (Fig. 3).
Mesosoma: 1.25 × as long as wide (excluding prothoracic collar); lateral margin slightly sinuate, gradually narrowing to propodeal spiracle then slightly broadening posteriorly, anteriorly 1.14 × as wide as immediately posterior to propodeal spiracle; dorsally with medium-sized, deep punctures, some punctures longitudinally irregular and confluent; mesopleuron and metapleuron mostly smooth, side of propodeum with fine sparse punctures; lateral margins of pronotum, mesonotum and propodeum without spines.
Metasoma: T1 not constricted posteriorly, sessile and merging evenly with T2, basal two-thirds with fine sparse punctures, apical third with fine dense punctures; T2 evenly convex throughout, without elevated, longitudinal carinae, mostly with medium-sized, dense, contiguous and somewhat confluent punctures; T3–T5 with fine dense punctures; T6 with flattened medio-apical irregular rugose sculptured area defined by distinct lateral carinae not reaching apex; S1 mostly smooth but with a small protuberance medially; S2 mostly with medium-sized dense punctures; S3–S6 with small dense punctures.
Male: Unknown.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, NICARAGUA: Jinotega, Dept. Jinotega, 1100 m, VII 1947, P. C. Standley (MIUP). Paratypes, 3♀♀, GUATEMALA: Sacatepequez, Sn. Lucas, Granja S. Ana, 15 IX 1993, H. Villela, 1♀ (MIUP); Santa Rosa, Barberena, Finca Cerro Redondo, 13 XII 1989, R. Pérez, 1♀ (MIUP); 6.3 mi NE. Escuintla, 30 July 1966, U. Kans. Mex. Exped., 1♀ (DJBC).
Distribution. Central America: Guatemala, Nicaragua. First record of the genus for Nicaragua.
Comments. The clypeus produced anteriorly into a tongue-like process is uncommon in females of Neotropical Mutillidae. Some females of the genera Hoplocrates Mickel, 1937 [e.g. H. centromaculata (Cresson, 1902)], and Invreiella Suárez, 1966 [I. satrapa (Gerstaecker, 1874)] have this peculiar clypeus, and in both genera this morphological character is used to separate species.
Etymology. The species is named in reference to Jinotega, the department of Nicaragua from which the holotype specimen has been collected, used here as a noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Cambra, Roberto A., Quintero, Diomedes & Brothers, Denis J., 2014, A new species of Hoplognathoca Suárez, 1962 from Central America and description of male of Hoplognathoca costarricensis Suárez, 1962 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), pp. 295-300 in Zootaxa 3884 (3) on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/227904