Orasema woolleyi Burks & Heraty & Dominguez & Mottern 2018, n. sp.
Creators: name: Burks, Roger A.
name: Heraty, John M.
name: Dominguez, Chrysalyn
name: Mottern, Jason L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eucharitidae
Orasema
Orasema woolleyi

description: Orasema woolleyi Burks, Heraty & Dominguez n. sp.
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Diagnosis. Eyes with visible setae at 50X magnification. Mesoscutal midlobe and mesoscutellum, including axillula, areolate.
No other species in this group has easily visible ocular setae (Fig. 246).
Description. Female. Length 2.7–3.3 mm.
Color: Head and mesosoma green with red to yellow luster. Pedicel yellow; anellus yellow; flagellum brown. Coxae green to purple dorsally, becoming brown to yellow ventrally; fore femur mostly brown, tips pale; mid and hind femora yellow. Fore wing hyaline; venation yellowish brown. Petiole green; gaster brown with green to purple luster.
Head: Head width:head height 1.1; face reticulate; longitudinal groove between eye and torulus absent; eyes with visible setae at 50X magnification, inter-ocular distance:eye height 1.5–2.1; malar space:eye height 0.6–0.7; supraclypeal area longer than broad, smooth medially, dorsally and ventrally, weakly sculptured laterally; clypeus weakly sculptured; Flagellum length:head height 1.5; F2 2.5–3.0× as long as broad, 1.1–1.3× as long as F3; following funiculars subequal in width, progressively shorter.
Mesosoma: Mesosoma length:height 1.3. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate medially, areolate-reticulate laterally, with moderately long setae; lateral lobe areolate to areolate-reticulate. Axilla areolate to areolate-reticulate; mesoscutellar disc areolate; frenal line regularly foveate; frenum areolate; axillular groove anteriorly absent, broad and foveate posteriorly; axillula areolate with longitudinal carinae. Propodeum with irregular median carina; propodeal disc areolate medially to areolate-reticulate laterally; callus areolate-reticulate, with 3–5 setae. Mesepisternum reticulate to areolate-reticulate laterally, smooth ventrally, broadly rounded anterior to mid coxa. Upper mesepimeron mostly smooth, except for small patch of weak sculpture posteriorly; lower mesepimeron reticulate to areolate-reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum laterally smooth to weakly reticulate. Hind coxa 2.0–2.1× as long as broad; hind femur 5.4–5.5× as long as broad. Fore wing 2.5× as long as broad, 2.7– 2.8× as long as mesothorax; stigma with 4 sensilla widely separated in a row. Hind wing costal cell with 1 or 2 irregular rows of setae.
Metasoma: Petiole 2.1–2.3× as long as broad, 0.9–1.0× as long as hind coxa, areolate, anterior carina moderate. Antecostal sulcus crossed by carinae; acrosternite posteriorly rounded.
Male. unknown.
Biology. Found near extrafloral nectaries of the shrub Byttneria aculeata (Malvaceae).
Distribution. Costa Rica, Mexico.
Material examined. Holotype: COSTA RICA: Heredia: La Selva Biol. Sta., 3 km S Pto. Viejo, 10°26'00"N, 84°01'00"W, H.A. Hespenheide [1 ♀, UCRCENT00413159], deposited in UCRC. Paratypes: COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: Est. Las Pailas, P.N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800m, 10°46'31"N, 85°20'59"W, 16–30.vi.1994, D.G. Garcia [2 ♀, INBIO: INBIOCRI02029297, INBIOCRI02029314]. Est. Las Pailas, P.N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800m, 10°46'31"N, 85°20'59"W, 17–28.vii.1993, K. Taylor [1 ♀, INBIO: INBIOCRI01666908]. Est. Las Pailas, P.N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800m, 10°46'31"N, 85°20'59"W, 4–31.x.1993, K. Taylor [1 ♀, INBIO: INBIOCRI01814502]. Est. Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, P. N. Guanacaste, 700m, 10°59'28"N, 85°25'39"W, 27.vii–14.viii.1992, P. Rios [1♂, INBIO: INBIOCRI00774854]. Est. Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, P. N. Guanacaste, 700m, 10°59'28"N, 85°25'39"W, 4–13.xii.1991, C. Moraga [1♂, INBIO: INBIOCRI00527002]. Est. Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, P. N. Guanacaste, 700m, 10°59'28"N, 85°25'39"W, vii.1994, C. Moraga [1♂, INBIO: INBIOCRI02001630]. Est. Pitilla, 9 km S Santa Cecilia, P. N. Guanacaste, 700m, 10°59'28"N, 85°25'39"W, xii.1993, E. Araya [1 ♀, INBIO: INBIOCRI01709279]. Sector Las Pailas, P.N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800m, 10°47'03"N, 85°21'00"W, 5–17.v.1994, Guadalupe Rodriguez [1♂, INBIO: INBIOCRI02096689]. Heredia: La Selva 3km S Pto. Viejo, 10°26'00"N, 84°01'00"W, 16.xi.1978, T.W. Sherry, at foliar nectaries of Byttneria aculeata [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00413880]. La Selva, 3 km S Pto. Viejo, 10°26'00"N, 84°01'00"W, 11.iii.1980, H.A. Hespenheide [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00413879]. MEXICO: Chiapas: Malpaso, 17°11'23"N, 93°36'17"W, 24.v.1969, H.J. Teskey [1 ♀, CNC: UCRCENT00425914]. Veracruz: 33 km NE Catemaco, Tuxtlas Res Sta, 160m, 18°35'07"N, 95°04'27"W, 1.vii.1983, M. Kaulbars [1 ♀, CNC: UCRCENT00425913].
Etymology. Named after James B. Woolley (Texas A&M University), an amazing mentor.
description: Published as part of Burks, Roger A., Heraty, John M., Dominguez, Chrysalyn & Mottern, Jason L., 2018, Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae), pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 4401 (1) on pages 97-99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1207463