Handaoia cuscoensis Bordera 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bordera, Santiago
name: Broad, Gavin R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Handaoia
Handaoia cuscoensis

description: Handaoia cuscoensis Bordera sp. nov.
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Figs 1A, 2, 9B
Diagnosis
Handaoia cuscoensis Bordera sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other New World species by the combination of the following characters: apophysis of propodeum high, subtriangular with blunt tip (Fig. 2F, arrow); juxtacoxal carina absent (Fig. 2C); area externa of propodeum confluent with area dentipara (Fig. 1A); hind coxa tinged with white (Fig. 2A).
Etymology
The name of the species refers to the Department of Cusco (Peru), the type locality region.
Material examined
Only known from the holotype female.
Holotype PERU • ♀; Quincemil, 750 m nr. Marcapata; 10–15 Nov. 1962; Luis Peña leg.; AEIC.
Description
Female
MEASUREMENTS. Body length (without ovipositor) 3.8 mm. Fore wing 2.9 mm long.
HEAD. Very finely and densely granulate, matt, distinctly narrowed behind eyes, occiput very concave centrally in dorsal view (Fig. 2E); gena about 0.15 × length of eye in dorsal view; posterior ocellus separated from eye by 1.43 × its own maximum diameter; distance between posterior ocelli 1.14 × maximum ocellar diameter (Fig. 2E); occipital carina gently V-shaped medially; malar space 1.33 × basal width of mandible; face moderately swollen medially (Fig. 2B); clypeus very weakly convex, almost flat, finely and slightly granulate with scattered punctures, its apex weakly rounded, about 2.3× as wide as high; mandible slightly tapered to apex, ventral tooth of mandible a little shorter than upper tooth; maxillary palp reaching at most ¾ length of mesosternum; flagellum widened in middle, tapered towards apex, flagellomeres 8–19 flattened ventrally (Fig. 1A); flagellum with 20 segments, lengththickness ratios: 1 st segment = 5.64, 2 nd = 6.55 and 10 th = 1.08.
MESOSOMA. Very finely and densely granulate, matt (Fig. 2D); mesoscutum conspicuously convex, notauli absent (Fig. 2E); scutellum moderately convex, without lateral carinae; sternaulus very short and weak, as a wide V-shaped depression anteriorly, reaching at most 0.3× length of mesopleuron (Fig. 2D); juxtacoxal carina barely indicated anteriorly (Fig. 2C); propodeum (Fig. 1A) with mostly weak carinae; area superomedia confluent with area basalis and separated from area petiolaris; area externa and area dentipara confluent; area spiracularis confluent with area lateralis; area dentipara section of lateral longitudinal carina very weak, partly absent; posterior transverse carina strong, forming elevate apophysis joining lateral longitudinal carina, apophysis subtriangular, with blunt tip (Fig. 2D, F, arrow). Length of hind femur about 4.4 × its height. Hind wing with vein cu-a 0.73 as long as abscissa of CU between M and cu-a.
METASOMA. Tergite I (Figs 1A, 2G) finely granulate and very weakly strigose laterally, matt, 2.5× as long as its maximum width; lateromedian longitudinal carina absent; lateral longitudinal carina complete; tergite II (Fig. 2G) shallowly granulate, shiny, glabrous; remaining tergites (Fig. 2G) smooth and shiny with inconspicuous dense setiferous punctures. Ovipositor sheath about 0.4× as long as hind tibia.
COLOUR. Head (Fig. 2A–B, D–E) light orange; antenna with scape and pedicel light brown, flagellum dark brown, distal part of flagellomere 4 to flagellomere 7 dorsally white (Fig. 2A). Mesosoma (Fig. 2D– E) light orange. Metasoma (Fig. 2G) mostly brown, tergites I–II and anterior part of IV light orange. Legs (Fig. 2A) mostly light orange, distal tarsomeres, dark brown, fore and mid coxae, trochanters and trochantelli white, hind coxa white proximally, dark brown distally. Wings (Fig. 2A) slightly evenly infuscate.
Male
Unknown.
description: Published as part of Bordera, Santiago & Broad, Gavin R., 2021, Six new species of Handaoia Seyrig, 1952 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Phygadeuontinae): the first to be described from the New World, pp. 80-101 in European Journal of Taxonomy 757 on pages 83-85, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.757.1415, http://zenodo.org/record/5047683