Conura leucotela
Creators: name: Brotto, Thales Renan De Aguiar
name: Tavares, Marcelo Teixeira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae
Conura
Conura leucotela

description: Conura leucotela (Walker 1862)
Figs 1 A–D; 2A–C
Smiera leucotelus Walker, 1862: 181–182. BRAZIL. Ega [Tefé].
Smicra leucotelus Walker: Ashmead, 1904: 252, 450 (misspelling)
Proctoceras leucotelus (Walker): Kirby, 1883: 77 (combination).
Proctoceras leucotelum (Walker): Dalla Torre, 1898: 370 (catalogue).
Proctoceras leucotelus (Walker): Schmiedeknecht, 1909: 45 (catalogue); De Santis, 1980: 255 (catalogue).
Conura (Spilochalcis) leucotela (Walker): Delvare, 1992: 267–268 (combination, lectotype designation); Noyes, 2019 (catalogue); Tavares, 2019 (online catalogue).
Redescription. FEMALE. Lectotype: length 9.2 mm.
Color. Body mainly black but dorsum of antennal scape to Fu2, mandible, most of coxae to femora, protarsus, and gaster brown (Fig. 1A), and with following yellow: spots anterior to median ocellus (Fig. 1B), venter of antennal scape to Fu2, lower half of parascrobal area (Fig. 1B), side of lower face dorsally (Figs 1A, B), clypeus (Fig. 1B), temple (Fig. 1C), transversal stripe on posterior dorsal margin of pronotum (Fig. 1C), continued laterally (Fig. 1A), posterior margin of mesoscutum except medially (Fig. 1C), tegula, axilla posteriorly, sublateral spots on posterior third of mesoscutellum (Fig. 1D), upper area of femoral depression, acropleuron, lateral panel of axilla, apex of pro- and mesofemora, base of pro- and mesotibia, mesotarsus, ventrolateral spot on metafemur, upper strip on external and internal face of metafemur (Fig. 1A), and Gt7+8 (Fig. 2B). Wings hyaline, veins dark brown.
Head. Paratorular carina shorter than greatest diameter of antennal foramen; lower face with inconspicuous transverse raised strip below antennal foramen (Fig. 1B: RS).
Mesosoma. Pronotal anterior furrow not delimited posteriorly by sharp margin (Fig. 1C); mesoscutum median area with small and deep umbilicate foveae, interstices narrow giving sculpture an alveolate appearance (Fig. 1C); mesoscutellum flat, basally without wide smooth and shiny transverse band, with median non-foveate strip restricted to basal third (Fig. 1D: S), and diameter of foveae on disc 0.30–0.39× MOD, with interstice width mostly 0.3× diameter of foveae (Fig. 1D); frenal carina forming sublateral lobes (Fig. 1D, red dashed line); metascutellum with median fovea or impression; propodeum perpendicular to longitudinal axis of mesosoma (Figs 1A, 2C), anterior costula conspicuous laterally, inconspicuous medially (Fig. 2A: ACP), median carina (anterior to posterior costula) about 0.2× median length of propodeum (Fig. 2A: MCP), posterior costula conspicuous and reaching anterior half of propodeum (Fig. 2A: PCP), adpetiolar area long, with median and submedian carinae (Fig. 2A: AdA); metafemur with 13 teeth, basal tooth followed by a minute tooth; metasternum deeply concave, with median carina not raised as lamina.
Metasoma. Petiole not completely visible dorsally, very short, 0.10× as long as wide, basal lamina absent dorsally, present ventrally, submedian carinae absent, lateral carinae absent; Gs1 projected forward under metasternum so petiole attached to Gt1 dorsum; dorsally, Gt1–Gt5 about 0.8× as wide as long; Gt6 with posterior margin deeply emarginate (Fig. 2B, red dashed line); Gt7+8 about 1.1× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined (Fig. 2C).
MALE. Unknown.
Host. Unknown.
Distribution: BRAZIL (Amazonas: Tefé).
Remarks. Conura leucotela is known only from the lectotype, which is similar to C. pseudoleucotela in its perpendicular propodeum, extremely concave metasternum, very short petiole, anteriorly projected Gs1, and long Gt7+8. However, C. leucotela has an inconspicuous, transverse, raised strip below the antennal foramen (Fig. 1B: RS) instead of a transverse carina in C. pseudoleucotela (Fig. 5B: TC), the posterior margin of Gt6 deeply emarginate (Fig. 2B, red dashed line) instead of concave in C. pseudoleucotela (Fig. 6C, red dashed line), and Gt7+8 about 1.1× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined (Fig. 2C) instead 0.7× in C. pseudoleucotela (Fig. 6D).
Material Examined. LECTOTYPE (NHMUK): Female, labeled: ‘ Ega [nowadays Brazil, Amazonas, Tefé] / 59 10’ ‘ Lectotype / Delvare’ ‘ Proctoceras leucotelus Walker / stood under this name in old B. M. Coll. C. Waterhouse’ ‘B.M. TYPE HYM. 5.509’ ‘ BMNHƐ #1414586 ’. The lectotype (Figs 1 A–D, 2A–C) is damaged; it lacks the right antennal flagellum, left antennal Fu3 to clava, and the three apical right metatarsomeres. The left hind leg is glued on a card.
description: Published as part of Brotto, Thales Renan De Aguiar & Tavares, Marcelo Teixeira, 2021, Review of the leucotela species-group of Conura (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) from Amazon rainforest, pp. 409-427 in Zootaxa 4942 (3) on pages 413-415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4604424