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 group sp. 2
Figs 8 A–F
Description. MALE. Length 6.48 mm
Color. Body mainly yellow to dark yellow (Fig. 8A), but dorsum of Fu1 to Fu6, Fu7, clava, pedicel, anellus (Fig. 8C), spot anteriorly on mesoscutellum (Fig. 8E), external face of procoxa (Fig. 8A), spot on posterior face of profemur (Fig. 8A), apex of metacoxa ventrally (Fig. 8A), internal face of metafemur basally (Fig. 8A), and base and apex of metatibia (Fig. 8A) light brown, with axilla (Fig. 8E), axillula (Fig. 8E), mesofemoral depression (Fig. 8A), and external face of metafemur basally (Fig. 8A) dark brown, and the following black: antennal scrobe (Fig. 8B), most of vertex (Fig. 8D), median area of occiput (Fig. 8D), inverted triangle on median lobe of mesoscutum (Fig. 8E), spot on internal margin of lateral lobe of mesoscutum (Fig. 8E), anterior face of mesopleuron (Fig. 8A), metafemoral tooth (Fig. 8A), and ventral margin of metatibia (Fig. 8A). Wings slightly smoky, veins pale yellow (Figs 8A, E). Setae white to pale yellow (Fig. 8A).
Head. Clava with parallel sides, the first, second and third segments approximately of same width (Fig. 8C); lower face with inconspicuous transverse carina below antennal foramen (Fig. 8B).
Mesosoma. Median area of mesoscutum with regular umbilicate fovea, interstices not so narrow, giving sculpture a reticulate appearance (Fig. 8E); mesoscutellum without wide basal smooth and shiny transverse band (Fig. 8E), median unfoveate strip restricted to basal quarter (Fig. 8E), frenal carina forming sublateral lobes (Fig. 8E); metascutellum convex, smooth and shiny, without median fovea or impression (Fig. 8F); propodeum almost perpendicular to longitudinal axis of mesosoma (Fig. 8A), anterior costula conspicuous throughout (Fig. 8F: ACP), median carina very short (Fig. 8F: MCP) and replaced by submedian carinae that delimit a median areola (Fig. 8F: MAP), posterior costula conspicuous and limited to posterior half of propodeum (Fig. 8F: PCP), adpetiolar area without submedian carinae (Fig. 8F: AdA); metafemur with 10 small teeth, basal tooth the largest, followed by a minute tooth and then by medium sized teeth (Fig. 8A).
Metasoma. Petiole visible dorsally, about 0.6× as long as wide (Fig. 8A, 8E), basal lamina present dorsally and ventrally, without median dorsal carina, but with at least one lateral carina (Fig. 8A, 8E).
FEMALE. Unknown.
Host. Unknown.
Distribution. Brazil (Para).
Remarks. Conura sp. 2 is compared with the other species of the leucotela group in the remarks section for Conura sp. 1, but the propodeum uniquely has the median carina very short and replaced by submedian carinae that delimit a median areola (Fig. 8F: MAP).
Material Examined. Male labeled ‘ BRAZIL, PARA, Baker [col.]’ (USNM).
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 422-424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4604424