Stantonia quincemila Braet & Quicke 2004, sp. n.
Creators: name: Braet, Yves
name: Quicke, Donald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Stantonia
Stantonia quincemila

description: Stantonia quincemila sp. n.   
(figures 25, 42, 98, 119, 126)  
 Etymology. From the name of the city.   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, ” (AEI): Peru: Avispas, 20–30 September 1962, collection of R. D. Shenefelt. PARATYPES: Ecuador (TAMU): ”, 3 km N Tena, May– June 1993 (S. Borrer and G. Fisher). Peru (AEI): 2„„, topotypic but: ‘ 1–15 October 1962 ’. Avispas: ” and „, September 1962, collection of R. D. Shenefelt; „, 20–30 September 1962, collection of R. D. Shenefelt. Quincemil: „, 20–30 September 1962, collection of R. D. Shenefelt.   
 Excluded specimens (AEI). Brazil: Mato Grosso: Chapadados Guima Räes: „, 800 m, July 1983 (M. Alvarenga). Peru: Quincemil: 3„„, 20–30 October 1962, collection of R. D. Shenefelt.   
Holotype, ”, length of body 4.4 mm, of fore wing 5 mm.  
 Head (figure 119). Remaining antennal segments 11 and 10, length of third segment 1.1 times fourth, length of third and fourth segments 3.5, 3 times their maximal width, flagellomeres with two ranks of placodes; length of eye in dorsal view twice temple; eyes glabrous; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, striate dorsally near eyes, coriaceous, shiny; OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~8.0:4.0:5.0; frons smooth medially, shiny, punctate laterally; vertex convex, slightly punctate, flattened near stemmaticum; face convex, striate-punctate, smooth between punctures with long setae especially near eyes; clypeus convex and smooth; maxillary palp 1.5 times height of head; length of malar space 1.5 times basal width of mandible; malar suture absent; occipital flange rounded.   
 Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.2 times its maximal height; mesopleuron sparsely punctate, smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus complete and distinctly punctate (figure 98); metapleuron sparsely punctate; mesoscutum coarsely punctate; scutellar sulcus large and smooth (figure 25); scutellum convex, punctate and shiny; propodeum medially convex in lateral view, with one coarse medio-transverse rugae, with several weak rugae anteriorly, smooth posteriorly (figure 42); midlongitudinal carina of propodeum weakly present anteriorly; metapleural flange short and blunt (figure 98).   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~9:38; 2-SR: r-m~8:5; second submarginal cell petiolate (figure 126); subbasal cell glabrous anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 as long as vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane largely glabrous basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa granular, with coarse rugae dorsally; lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5, 10 and 7 times their widths, respectively; tibial spurs 0.6 and 0.45 times basitarsus; hind tibia with five apical teeth.   
 Metasoma. First tergite 2.4 times longer than apically wide, smooth and shiny, apically flattened; spiracles protruding; second tergite smooth; T2 one times longer than T3; second suture obsolescent; ovipositor sheath 0.1 times fore wing length.   
 Colour. Brownish yellow. Hind tarsus, hind femur apico-ventrally and dorsally, stemmaticum blackish; apical patch of fore wing (half of marginal cell), stripe on outer side of scapus, basal third of inner tibial spur infuscate; humeral plate brownish; antennal segments yellow-brown, T2, basal two-thirds of posterior part of hind tibia, apical third of inner hind tibial spur, hind trochantellus, tegula yellowish.   
 Variation. Number of antennal segments varies between 42 and 48; T3–T7 may have brownish patches apically, hind trochantellus sometimes darker.   
 Remarks. Some specimens have been excluded from type-series because they differ from it in their coloration and sculpture, i.e. T2 always with brown patches medio-transversely, hind coxa with brown patch apically, and lack of coarse mediotransverse rugae on propodeum (propodeum only weakly rugulose). They may represent another species.
description: Published as part of Braet, Yves & Quicke, Donald, 2004, A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimagathidini with revisionary notes on the genus Stantonia Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae), pp. 1489-1589 in Journal of Natural History 38 (12) on pages 1572-1573, DOI: 10.1080/0022293031000155313, http://zenodo.org/record/4675799