Mnioes , Townes 1946
Creators: name: Ballon-Estacio, Ricardo
name: Alvarado, Mabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mnioes

description: Mnioes Townes, 1946
Mnioes Townes, 1946 in Townes, 1946: 58.
Type-species Lampronota jacunda Cresson, 1874, by original designation.
Mnioes Townes, 1970: 24. Redescription.
Mnioes Ugalde-Gómez & Gauld, 2002: 565. Redescription.
Mnioes Alvarado, 2020: 182. Diagnosis.
Key to Peruvian species of Mnioes (modified from Alvarado 2020)
1. Female............................................................................................. 2
-. Male (unknown in iskay, kinsa, pisqa, poncei, pusaq and qanchis)............................................. 14
2. Antenna without white- or yellow-band; metasomal tergites shiny, softly granulate..................... iskay Alvarado
-. Antenna with white- or yellow-band or with white or yellow colour in some articles of the flagellum; metasomal tergites granulate, mate....................................................................................... 3
3. Propodeum and mesoscutum black with white or yellowish spots............................................... 4
-. Propodeum and mesoscutum entirely black................................................................. 5
4. Ovipositor sheath 1.6× as long as metatibia; metasomal tergite I concolour red; antenna with scape with truncated sections Ushaped basally........................................................................... poncei Alvarado
-. Ovipositor sheath 2.1× as long as metatibia; metasomal tergite I basally and distally yellow; antenna with scape with truncated sections V-shaped basally................................................................... kinsa Alvarado
5. Antenna with yellow-band with more than 20 flagellomeres....................................... pisqa Alvarado
-. Antenna with white- or yellow-band with fewer than 14 flagellomeres........................................... 6
6. Metasoma predominantly reddish-brown, at least with tergite IV unicolour reddish-brown............................ 7
-. Metasoma predominantly black, at least with IV unicolour black................................................ 9
7. Antennal band ventrally black, dorsally white................................................... pusaq Alvarado
-. Antenna band with articles evenly coloured................................................................ 8
8. Lower face black with orbits light yellow; antenna with 48–53 with flagellomeres, and between the flagellomeres 7 or 8 to 15–17 light yellow......................................................................... huk Alvarado
-. Lower face evenly black; antenna with 44 flagellomeres and between flagellomeres 8–20 entirely light yellow................................................................................................. qanchis Alvarado
9. Fore wing weakly infuscate, with more darkly infumate patches centrally and apically (Figs 2A, 3A).................. 10
-. Fore wing hyaline or slightly infuscate................................................................... 12
10. Pronotum mostly black, centrally white; metabasitaromere black (Fig. 2A)............................ chunka sp. nov.
-. Pronotum evenly black; metabasitaromere black with distal third white (Fig. 3A).................................. 11
11. Metasomal tergites I and II black; distance between ocelli 0.8× maximum ocellar diameter............... soqta Alvarado
-. Metasomal tergites I and II black with distal margin white (Fig. 3E); distance between ocelli 0.6× maximum ocellar diameter....................................................................................... chusaq sp. nov.
12. Frontal orbit small, restricted to the middle of the frons; pronotum with or without dull white minute spots anteriorly; scutellum black..................................................................................... isqun sp. nov.
-. Frontal orbit large, ranging between toruli and lateral ocellus; pronotum black with anterior margin antero-centrally broadly white; scutellum black, centrally with a white spot.......................................................... 13
13. Metacoxa reddish; fore and mid femur reddish........................................... attenboroughi Alvarado
-. Metacoxa black; fore and mid femur brownish black.............................................. tawa Alvarado
14. Tegula dark brown to black................................................................... isqun sp. nov.
-. Tegula white or off-white.............................................................................. 15
15. Fore wing weakly infuscate, with a more darkly infumate patches centrally and apically (Fig. 3B).................... 16
-. Fore wing hyaline (Fig. 2B)............................................................................ 17
16. Metasomal tergites I black; lower face white with a small median vertical black mark that reaches to the clypeus, and with a black mark along the upper margin of the clypeus................................................ soqta Alvarado
-. Metasomal tergites I black with distal margin white (Fig. 3B); lower face white with a small median vertical black mark that reaches to mid face (Fig. 3D)................................................................ chusaq sp. nov.
17. Antennae entirely black (Fig. 4A); mesoscutum black with a yellow spot at the center (Fig. 4B)............ huk Alvarado
-. Antennae black with a white band or dorsally white on mid flagellomeres (Fig. 3B); mesoscutum black, rarely black with reddish tint......................................................................................... 18
18. Mesopleuron black........................................................................ chunka sp. nov.
-. Mesopleuron dorsally black, ventrally white or with a white spot............................................... 19
19. Metapleuron black with a whitish cream spot............................................ attenboroughi Alvarado
-. Metapleuron reddish with a whitish cream spot................................................... tawa Alvarado
description: Published as part of Ballon-Estacio, Ricardo & Alvarado, Mabel, 2024, Three new species of parasitoid wasps of the genus Mnioes Townes, 1946 (Ichneumonidae: Banchinae) in a humid forest in Peru, pp. 269-283 in Zootaxa 5523 (2) on pages 272-282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5523.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13934262