Amputoearinus
Creators: name: Lindsay, Cheryl
name: Sharkey, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Amputoearinus

description: Key to Amputoearinus species
1. Forewing mostly infuscate with yellow patch in basal quarter and yellow band in apical 3rd quarter (Fig. 4 e) .................................................................................... 2
- Forewing yellow with infuscate band apically (Fig. 4 f) ........................................ 3 - Forewing banded from base yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate (Figs. 5 b, 4g) .... 7 - Forewing weakly infuscate basally, deeply infuscate apically (Fig. 5 a) ................... ................................................................................ niger Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Forewing evenly infuscate with yellowish tinge (Fig. 5 c) ........................................ ...................................................................... alafumidu s Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. 2(1). Propodeum completely smooth, lacking small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 d) ........................................................................ surinen Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n - Propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 f) .......... ................................................................ planusfunditus Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Propodeum with distinct carinae (Figs. 5 e, 5g, 5h) ................. fernandezi Sharkey 3(1). Margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth, lacking transverse carinae (Fig. 7 b) ........................................................................................................... 4 - Margin between metepimeron and metepisternum with transverse carinae (Fig. 7a) ................................................................................................................................ 6 4(3). Projection of propleuron acute (Fig. 6 e); propodeum completely smooth without small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 d); mesopleural suture lacking carinae .. .............................................................................. erudio Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Projection of propleuron blunt (Fig. 6 f); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 f); mesopleural suture with carinae .................... 5 5(4). Scutellar sulcus with longitudinal carina (Fig. 6 c); median areola of mesosoma depressed medially with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (Fig. 7 c) ............... ............................................................................. boringi Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carinae (Fig. 6 d); median areola of mesosoma not depressed medially and lacking sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (Fig. 7 d) ................................................................ sharanowskiae Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. 6(3). Propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (Fig. 5 f); carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 6a); median areola of propodeum absent (Figs. 5 d, 5f, 5g) ...................................... ........................................................................ variegatus Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Propodeum with distinct carinae (Figs. 5 e, 5g, 5h); carina, bordering subpronope posteriorly, not extending to anterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 6 b); median areola of propodeum present but lateral edges weak (Fig. 5 e) ............................................ .............................................................................. galbus Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. 7(1). Anterior margin of forewing infuscate throughout (Fig. 4 g) .................................. 8 - Anterior margin of forewing yellow basally (Figs. 4 b, 5b) ................................. 10 8(7). Projection of propleuron acute (Fig. 6 e) ............ gloriae Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Projection of propleuron blunt (Fig. 6 f) ................................................................. 9 9(8). Antenna entirely melanic ............................. seltmannae Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n. - Antenna mostly melanic with yellow tips ................................................................. .................................................................. flavocacumen Lindsay & Sharkey sp.n.
description: Published as part of Lindsay, Cheryl & Sharkey, Michael, 2006, Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1329 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174171