Amputoearinus gloriae Lindsay and Sharkey, sp.n.
Creators: name: Lindsay, Cheryl
name: Sharkey, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Amputoearinus
Amputoearinus gloriae

description: Amputoearinus gloriae Lindsay and Sharkey sp.n. (Figs. 3 a, 5f, 7c)
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from all other species of Amputoearinus by the following characters; forewing banded from base yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate, foremargin infuscate throughout; projection of propleuron acute.
Description: Holotype Ψ
Body length: 6.2 (6.6)mm. Color: body yellow except melanic as follows: head with gena below eye yellow; antenna, pronotum, ventral and lateral mesosoma, midtarsus, hind coxa, trochanter, tibia, tarsus; forewing banded from base yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate; foremargin infuscate throughout (cf. Fig. 4 g). Head: antenna with 36 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carina (cf. Fig. 6 d); projection of propleuron acute, flattened dorsoventrally with distinct ridges ventrolaterally (cf. Fig. 6 e); median areola of mesosoma well defined with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (Fig. 7 c); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 f); mesopleural suture with weak transverse carinae; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae (cf. Fig. 7 b); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf. Fig. 6a); length of midtibial spur 0.4mm, length of midbasitarsomere 0.6mm; midtibia with 3 pegs at midlength, lacking pegs apically; hind tibia with 2 pegs apically; forewing length 5.5 (6.0)mm. Metasoma: median syntergite 2+3 length 1.2mm, width 0.8mm.
Variation: mesopleural suture with stronger transverse carinae; forewing color banded from base hyaline, infuscate, hyaline, infuscate; foremargin infuscate throughout. Male: Unknown
Etymology: In honor of the first author’s mother, Gloria Lindsay. Specimen Examined: HOLOTYPE. Ψ, COLOMBIA, Putumayo, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] La Playa Cabaña Chagra, 0º7'S 74º56'W, 320m, Malaise, 1–15.xi.2001, R. Cobete, Leg. M. 2439, (IAvH).
PARATYPES. COLOMBIA: Ψ, Putumayo, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] La Paya Cabaña Viviano, 0º7'S 74º56'W, 320m, Malaise, 1–15.xii.2001, E. Lozano, Leg. M. 2795, (HIC). Ψ, Putumayo, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] La Paya Cabaña Viviano Cocha, 0°7'S 74°56'W, 320m, Malaise, 1–30.vii.2002, A. Morales Leg. M.3314, (IAvH 39569). Ψ, Putumayo, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] La Paya Cabaña La Paya, 0°2'S 75°12'W, 330m, Malaise, 15–30xi.2001, R. Cobete Leg. M.2653, (IAvH 39565).
Amputoearinus matamata Sharkey (Fig. 3 b, 5g)
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished from all other species of Amputoearinus by the following characters; median areola of mesosoma depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly.
Description: Holotype Ψ
Body length: 7.1 (7.1–7.4) mm. Color: body black except: fore and midlegs pale yellow except apical tarsomeres black; hind femur and basal hind tibia orange, propodeum orange, metasoma orange except for posterior four segments; forewing banded from base, yellow, black, yellow, black; foremargin yellow (cf. Fig. 5 b) Head: antenna with 43 (43–45) flagellomeres. Mesosoma: scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carinae (cf. Fig. 6 d); projection of propleuron acute, dorsoventrally flattened, with weak smooth ridges ventrolaterally (cf. Fig. 6 e); median areola of mesosoma well defined with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (cf. Fig. 7 c); propodeum with pair of short carinae fused anteriorly to appear as an inverted v-shape (Fig. 5 g); mesopleural suture with transverse carinae throughout its length; margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth with very reduced transverse carinae (cf. Fig. 7 b); length of midtibial spur, 0.6mm, length of midbasitarsomere, 0.6mm; midtibia lacking pegs at midlength, 1 peg apically; hind tibia with 3 pegs apically; forewing length 7.5mm. Metasoma: median syntergite 2+3, length 1.6mm, width 1.2mm.
Variation: Paratype male from Brazil has ventral portions of the mesopleuron and hind coxa yellow; propodeal sculpture greatly reduced. Female paratypes from Colombia have propodeal sculpture greatly reduced.
Specimen Examined: HOLOTYPE. Ψ, COLOMBIA, Amazonas, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Amacayacu, Matamata, 3°41'S 70°15'W, 150m, Malaise, 12–17.iii.2001, D. Chota Leg. M2765, (IAvH).
PARATYPES. BRAZIL, ♂, Para, Faz Taperina, [2°31’60”S 54°16’60”W], 21–23.xi.1969, J&B Campbell, (AEI). COLOMBIA: Ψ, Amazonas, PNN Hamacayacu (sic.) [9°54’N 75°7’W], Malaise, Feb. [19]89, M. Kelsey, (antennae broken), (IAvH). Ψ, Amazonas, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Amacayacu, San Martín, 3°46'S 70°18'W, Malaise 19–27, Oct. 2000, B. Amado, M.839, secondary DNA voucher DM027s, (HIC). Ψ, Amazonas, Amacayacu Park, west of Leticia, 3°48'S 70°18'W 150m, 1–4.ix.1997, Sweep, Sharkey, DNA voucher DM027, (metasoma and left hind leg missing), (HIC). ECUADOR Ψ, Sucumbios (sic) [Succumbios], Rio Napo, Sacha Lodge, 0°30'S, 76°30'W, 220–230m, 16–27.x.1994, MT [Malaise Trap], P. Hibbs, (body broken and placed on 4 separate triangles, mesosoma except wings missing, left antenna broken), (HIC). Ψ, Sucumbios, Rio Napo Sacha Lodge, 0.5°S 76.5°W, 290m, 10–21.xi.1994, P. Hibbs, (AEI). FRENCH GUIANA Ψ, Regina, Kaw Mountain, Patawa, 4°32’643”N 52°09’153”W, x.2005, J.A. Cerda leg, (HIC).
description: Published as part of Lindsay, Cheryl & Sharkey, Michael, 2006, Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1329 on pages 13-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174171