Apocharips angelicae Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis 2002
Creators: name: Ferrer-Suay, Mar
name: Paretas-Martínez, Jordi
name: Pujade-Villar, Juli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Apocharips
Apocharips angelicae

description: Apocharips angelicae Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis, 2002
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Type material of Apocharips angelicae Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis, HOLOTYPE Ƥ (UB) designated by Pujade- Villar (2002) with the following labels: “Ubatuba est. exp., 17.VIII.90, Moericke trap, N. F. de Cristo Col.”, “Genotypus”, “ Apocharips angelicae n. sp., det. Pujade, 1998”. PARATYPE Ƥ (UB) with the following labels: “Fazenda Canchim (Sao Carlos), SP, Brazil, 1.IX.97 (sweep), G. La Salle Col.”, “ Paratypus ”, “ Apocharips angelicae n. sp. det. Pujade, 1998”.
Diagnosis. Apocharips angelicae is differentiated from all other Apocharips species having many long setae under toruli. Moreover, Apocharips angelicae resembles A. colombiana n. sp. having two last flagellomeres of female antenna well differentiated, not broadly joined. Several characters distinguish these two species: rhinaria and the club (antenna widening) begin in F 5 in A. angelicae (Fig. 1 C), but in F 2 in A. colombiana (Fig. 2 E); proportions of first flagellomeres are F1>F2=F 3 in A. angelicae (Fig. 1 C), F1=F2<F 3 in A. colombiana (Fig. 2 E); propodeal carinae are thick and separate in A. angelicae (Fig. 1 D), but form a plate with margins strongly curved in A. colombiana (Fig. 2 D); A. colombiana lacks carinae on apex of scutellum (Fig. 2 D), present in A. angelicae (Fig. 1 D).
Redescription. Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape, pedicel, F1–F5 dark yellow; F6– F11 yellowish brown. Legs and veins yellowish brown.
Head. Triangular, higher than wide, smooth, shiny. Setae present below and between toruli, few setae above toruli. Scattered setae on vertex, many setae on frons. Transfacial line 0.8 times height of compound eye. Malar space 0.4 times height of compound eye (Fig. 1 F).
Antenna. Female: 14-segmented, filiform. All antennomeres with sparse setae. F1–F3 smooth, thinner than remaining flagellomeres; F4–F11 with rhinaria, club-shaped. Antennal formula: 3.5 (2.2); 3.0 (2.0); 4.7 (1.3); 4.0 (1.3); 4.0 (1.4); 4.7 (1.7) (Fig. 1 C).
Mesosoma. Pronotum with abundant setae; with two thick, curved, long carinae forming a well-defined pronotal plate (Fig. 1 B). Mesoscutum smooth, shiny, round in dorsal view, without setae. Scutellum smooth, shiny, with scattered setae not being more abundant on apex; apex with a triangular carina (-shaped) (Fig. 1 D). Propodeum with abundant setae; two propodeal carinae thick, well defined, arched (Fig. 1 D).
Forewing. Longer than body, 1.1 times as long as mesosoma+metasoma. With dense pubescence and marginal setae. Radial cell 2.1 times as long as wide. R1 short, slightly curved; Rs long, curved (Fig. 1 A).
Distribution. Brazil (Pujade-Villar et al. 2002: 544). An additional specimen has been determined by Matt Buffington (pers. comm) from Colombia.
description: Published as part of Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Paretas-Martínez, Jordi & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2013, Revision of Apocharips Fergusson (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with description of three new species from Colombia, pp. 487-500 in Zootaxa 3646 (4) on page 489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/220644