Centistes iguaquensis Román & Almeida & Penteado-Dias & Shaw & Sarmiento 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Román, Andrea C.
name: Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De
name: Penteado-Dias, Angelica
name: Shaw, Scott Richard
name: Sarmiento, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Centistes
Centistes iguaquensis

description: Centistes iguaquensis Román & Sarmiento sp. nov.
(Figs. 14A–G, 24E)
Diagnosis: C. iguaquensis differs from the others by the following combination of characters: propodeum dorsally and posteriorly costate, with areola present and pentagonal; vein (RS+M)a absent; and ovipositor sheaths large, oval and with thin plate on the edge.
Comments: Centistes iguaquensis and C. truncatus share characters such as having the propodeum costate and dark body coloration; however, C. iguaquensis has the propodeal areola and vein (RS+M)a absent.
Description. Female. Body length: mesosoma length 1.35 (1.35–1.43) mm. Head (Figs. 14B–C): antenna with 28 flagellomeres; face setose and smooth, minimum face width 1.2 × clypeus width; face length 0.5 × maximum face width; clypeus setose and smooth, clypeus length 0.5 × its width; gena setose and smooth; frons smooth; vertex sparsely setose and smooth; mandibles when closed overlapping 0.5 × mandibles length, mandible width basally 0.4 × mandibles length; malar space length 0.5 × eye height in lateral view, and 1.6 × mandible width basally; eye height in lateral view 1.7 (1.5–1.7) × eye length in dorsal view; lateral ocellus separated from compound eye 2.5 (2.2–2.5) × ocellus diameter; temple length 1.2 × eye length in dorsal view. Mesosoma (Figs. 14D, G): pronotum sparsely setose, with transverse dorsal sulcus; pronotum in lateral view smooth, without carinae; median and lateral mesonotal lobes setose anteriorly, smooth; pit on the mesoscutum absent; notauli present; mesoscutum width 1.1 × its length; scutellar sulcus scrobiculate; scutellum sparsely setose, smooth; posterior scutellar depression scrobiculate; mesopleuron setose with a glabrous area medially, smooth; precoxal sulcus present, scrobiculate; metapleuron sparsely setose, metapleuron upper part scrobiculate and lower part rugulose, supramesocoxal projection absent; propodeum sparsely setose, not truncated, costate, dorsal areolae absent, dorsal longitudinal carinae absent, transverse dorsal carina absent, propodeal areola present, hexagonal. Legs (Fig. 14A): coxa sparsely setose, tarsus I to IV of fore legs without brush-like pubescence; claws basal lobe absent. Wings (Fig. 24E): vein (RS+M)a absent, stigma length 0.6 × marginal cell length and × 0.8 vein R1 length, vein r length 0.2 × stigma length, vein 1CUa length 0.4 × vein 1CUb length. Metasoma (Figs. 14E–F): first tergite lineate, without longitudinal carinae, smooth area absent, first tergite length 0.9 (0.9–1.0) × ovipositor sheath length; hypopygium sparsely setose; ovipositor sheath sparsely setose, large, oval, sheath tip round, thin plate on the edge present, ovipositor sheath length 2.5 (2.5–2.8) × its width. Coloration (Fig. 14A): Head black except scape dark brown and mandible yellow with brown tips; mesosoma black, coxa black and dark brown, femur dark brown, tibia and tarsus brown; tegula dark brown; wings hyaline, vein and stigma yellow; metasoma black and dark brown.
Male: Unknown.
Examined Material: Holotype female: COLOMBIA, Boyacá, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque, Quebrada Carrizal, N 5°25’ W 73°27’, 3350 m, Malaise, 11-x-2000 – 01-xi-2000, P. Reina leg. (Deposited in IaVH. Code: M.750).
Paratype: one female, COLOMBIA, Boyacá, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque, Quebrada Carrizal, N 5°25’ W 73°27’, 3350 m, Malaise, 11-x-2000 – 01-xi-2000, P. Reina leg., (Deposited in IaVH. Code: M.750).
Etymology: The name of this species refers to the type locality of Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque.
description: Published as part of Román, Andrea C., Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De, Penteado-Dias, Angelica, Shaw, Scott Richard & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2025, Analysis of morphological variation and description of fifteen new species of the genus Centistes Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae: Centistini) with a key of the South American species, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 5613 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215673