Monitoriella ubatuba Shimbori et Penteado-Dias
Creators: name: Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio
name: Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria
name: Nunes, Juliano Fiorelini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Monitoriella
Monitoriella ubatuba

description: M. ubatuba Shimbori et Penteado-Dias
(Figs 4, 7, 12, 15, 20, 22)
Description. Holotype Ƥ. Body length 5.7 mm.
Head (Figs 2, 15, 22). In dorsal view twice as wide as long; 1.4 times wider than mesoscutum. Small eyes, in lateral view about twice as long as temple. In frontal view, head 1.7 times wider than high, malar space 2/3 of eye height. Face 2.2 times wider than high, 0.55 as wide as head; medially polished, with a polished ridge extending up to between toruli, otherwise coarsely rugose. Temple and gena polished, malar space finely granular with some striations around oral cavity. Clypeus protruding, ventral portion not exposed. Mandible densely setose; ventral teeth almost as long as dorsal. Vertex coarsely rugulose; ocellar triangle elevated in hemispherical area; frons excavated and rugulose. Ocelli small, maximum diameter of posterior ocellus equal to distance between posterior ocelli; shortest distance between eye and ocellus 4 times the maximum diameter of posterior ocellus. Occipital carina complete, but irregular mid-dorsally. Antenna broken; flagellum 24+ jointed, at least as long as body.
Mesosoma (Fig. 12). 1.5 times longer than high, almost as high as wide. Anterior declivity of mesonotum vertical, median mesonotal lobe deeply indented medially. Notauli deep and crenulate anteriorly, converging in rugose area posteriorly, this area restrict to posterior third of mesoscutum. Prescutelar sulcus with some weak crenulae. Propodeum with very short median carina anteriorly; anterodorsally smooth and rugulose posteriorly; posterolaterally with short tubercles. Metapleuron rugose, with deep crenulate sulcus anteriorly. Sternaulus present anteriorly, deep and crenulate, absent posteriorly. Epicnemial carina weak but present ventrally. Ventral portion of mesopleuron separated by wide median groove between fore and mid coxae, as in M. elongata. Pronotum dorsally crenulate, polished laterally emarginated by a crenulate sulcus.
Legs: Fore tibia with a row of sparse thickened setae on anterodorsal surface; hind femur 4.4 times longer than broad; inner hind tibial spur 0.25 times the length of hind basitarsus; hind basitarsus as long as tarsomeres 2–5 combined; tarsi densely clothed with short setae ventrally, setae long and sparse dorsally; tarsal claws simple.
Wings: Fore wing vein 1m –cu almost interstitial to 2M, 2RS 1.35 times longer than 3RSa; 2Cua short but present, 2Cub nearly in line with 1CU; RS+M weakly sinuate; 1CU-a postfurcal to 1M, its length slightly longer than proximal segment of 1M.
Metasoma (Fig. 20). T1 rugulose, without median longitudinal carina; T2 longitudinally striate, the striations curving apically onto mid of terga; median carina present; T3 midbasally with some transverse striations, laterally striated, polished apically; same sculpture pattern repeated in T4, but weakly impressed. Petiole as long as wide, apex 1.6 times wider than base, broadest subapically, narrowed at apex. Base narrow and flared subbasally at dorsope. Ovipositor length ~ 4 times longer than hind tibia, 1.3 times longer than body; apex serrate ventrally.
Color. Yellowish brown; head, first and second metasomal tergum and propodeum brown to dark brown; reminder of metasoma brown.
Male. Unknown
Comments. Distinguished by the coarse rugose sculpturing on frons and vertex, and the relatively large body size. This species has the midventral line of mesothorax set within a wide and deep groove throughout its length, and the metasomal sculpturing similar to that of M. elongata, but differs from it in having the occiptal carina shortly interrupted mid-dorsally, pronotum laterally smooth, and lighter thorax color. Besides these characters the polished median area of face, which extends from above clypeus to the area between toruli, and the crenulate prescutelar pit, distinguish this species from M. costalimai.
Etymology. The species was named in reference to its sampling site.
Material examined. Holotype Ƥ (DCBU): Estação Experimental de Ubatuba, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. 02.XI.1990, N.F. Cristo col.
description: Published as part of Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio, Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria & Nunes, Juliano Fiorelini, 2011, Monitoriella Hedqvist (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazil, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 28-38 in Zootaxa 2921 on pages 36-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277925