Rogapolis nomai Garcia-Acosta, Shimbori, Castaneda-Osorio & Zaldivar-Riveron 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: García-Acosta, Gerardo Y.
name: Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén
name: Belokobylskij, Sergey A.
name: Shimbori, Eduardo M.
name: Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M.
name: Penteado-Dias, Angélica M.
name: Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Rogapolis
Rogapolis nomai

description: Rogapolis nomai García-Acosta, Shimbori, Castañeda-Osorio & Zaldívar-Riverón sp. nov.
Fig. 2 A – I
Type material.
Holotype, female (USNMENT 01322932) “ BRAZIL, Mâncio Lima, AC / 20.IV.2006 / Menezes col” (DCBU 22093).
Description.
Female, body length 4 mm, fore wing 4 mm; antenna 6.1 mm.
Head. Face without mid-longitudinal ridge, smooth and polished. Frons, occiput, temples, and malar space smooth and polished. Frons depressed behind antennal sockets, flat, with a an almost indistinct median transversal carina. Occipital carina medio-dorsally incomplete, ventrally present, and not joining hypostomal carina above the base of mandible. Temple narrow and receding (dorsal view), about as long as eyes. Head in dorsal view 1.25 × wider than mesoscutum height. POL 0.57 × OD, 0.238 × OOL. Face width 1.51 × longer than hight. Hypoclypeal cavity nearly round. Diameter of hypoclypeal cavity 0.69 × shorter than distance between cavity and eye margin. Hypoclypeal cavity moderate to strongly convex dorsally. Antenna 1.5 × longer than body. Flagellum with 45 flagellomeres (one broken). Apical (lighter) flagellomeres somewhat widening in comparison with basal ones. First flagellomere 3.4 × longer than wide, 1.55 × longer than the second and 1.65 × third.
Mesosoma. Pronotal collar forming a distinct neck. Pronotum smooth and polished. Pronope and subpronopes present. Pronope forming a wide concave area. Mesosoma 1.79 × longer than high, 2.2 × longer than width in dorsal view. Mesoscutum and scutellum smooth and polished. Mesoscutum 0.97 × longer than high. Scutellum 1.9 × wider than long. Scutellar sulcus 0.4 × as long as wide.
Wings. Forewing: pterostigma relatively small, 5.4 × longer than maximum width. Vein 2 RS 1.4 × longer than vein r. Vein 3 RSa 1.17 × longer than 2 RS. Vein 3 RSb 2.3 × longer than 3 RSa; vein 1 CUa around same size than vein 1 cu-a; vein (RS + M) a straight. Hind wing: vein 1 M 1.31 × longer than M + CU. Vein 1 M 3.2 × longer than m-cu.
Legs. Mid and hind coxae smooth and polished. Hind legs with tarsi broken. Ventral margin of hind tibia without dense comb of setae. Hind tibial spurs slightly curved with few setae.
Metasoma. First metasomal tergum short, 2.1 × longer than subbasal width, 0.8 × as long as distal width. First and second terga longitudinally costate. Third tergum longitudinally costate anteriorly. Ovipositor sheaths uniformly setose, short, 0.5 × as long as hind tibia.
Colour. Head, mesoscutum, scutellum, and mesopleuron honey yellow, propodeum and metasoma dark brown to black. Antenna, fore and mid coxae, and tibiae honey yellow. Hind leg and fore and middle tarsi dark brown to black. Wings dusky; veins and pterostigma brown to dark brown. Ovipositor sheaths dark brown. Ovipositor honey yellow.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology.
This species was named after a fictional alien race called Nomai, from the ‘ Outer Wilds’ video game.
description: Published as part of García-Acosta, Gerardo Y., Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Belokobylskij, Sergey A., Shimbori, Eduardo M., Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M., Penteado-Dias, Angélica M. & Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, 2025, Systematics of the braconid wasp subfamily Rhysipolinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) based on UCE data, with the description of a new Neotropical genus, pp. 67-87 in ZooKeys 1234 on pages 67-87, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1234.147859