Orasema llika Burks & Heraty & Dominguez & Mottern 2018, n. sp.
Creators: name: Burks, Roger A.
name: Heraty, John M.
name: Dominguez, Chrysalyn
name: Mottern, Jason L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eucharitidae
Orasema
Orasema llika

description: Orasema llika Burks, Heraty & Dominguez n. sp.
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Diagnosis. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate-reticulate. Mesoscutal sidelobe with transverse carinae (Fig. 126). Axilla with oblique carinae. Mesoscutellar disc with longitudinal carinae (Figs 126, 127). Axillula with parallel longitudinal carinae and no other sculpture (Fig. 127).
Description. Female. Length 2.2–2.9 mm.
Color: Head and mesosoma blue to green, with yellow luster on the mesoscutal midlobe, axilla, and mesoscutellum. Pedicel yellow to yellowish-brown; anellus yellow to yellowish-brown; flagellum pale brown. Coxae brown dorsally, becoming yellow apically; fore femur brown; mid and hind femora yellow. Fore wing hyaline; venation pale brown. Petiole blue-green; gaster brown, acrosternite dark brown to black.
Head: Head width:head height 1.1–1.2; face reticulate; longitudinal groove between eye and torulus present or absent; eyes bare, inter-ocular distance:eye height 1.3–1.4; malar space:eye height 0.6–0.7; supraclypeal area longer than broad, smooth; clypeus smooth. Flagellum length:head height 1.5–1.7; F2 2.7–2.9× as long as broad, 1.0–1.2× as long as F3; following funiculars subequal in width, progressively shorter in larger specimens, progressively shorter and broader in smaller specimens.
Mesosoma: Mesosoma length:height 1.4. Mesoscutal midlobe areolate-reticulate, with minute setae; lateral lobe areolate-reticulate anteriorly, with transverse carinae posteriorly. Axilla areolate-reticulate with oblique carinae; mesoscutellar disc areolate with longitudinal carinae laterally; frenal line irregularly foveate; frenum areolate-reticulate; axillular groove anteriorly absent, broad and foveate posteriorly; axillula with parallel longitudinal carinae. Propodeum with median carina; propodeal disc areolate to areolate-reticulate; callus areolatereticulate, with 3–5 setae. Mesepisternum areolate-reticulate laterally, smooth ventrally, broadly rounded anterior to mid coxa. Upper mesepimeron smooth; lower mesepimeron reticulate to areolate-reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum laterally smooth dorsally, reticulate ventrally. Hind coxa 2.1–2.7× as long as broad; hind femur 5.6–6.4× as long as broad. Fore wing 2.7–2.9× as long as broad, 2.8× as long as mesothorax; stigma with 4 sensilla separated into pairs. Hind wing costal cell with a broad bare area.
Metasoma: Petiole 2.3–2.5× as long as broad, 2.3–2.5× as long as hind coxa, areolate to areolate-reticulate, anterior carina moderate. Antecostal sulcus crossed by minute carinae; acrosternite posteriorly angulate.
Male. Unknown.
Distribution. Trinidad.
Material examined. Holotype: TRINIDAD: Arima: Simla Research Station, along ridge, 250m, 10°41'34"N, 61°17'23"W, 21–22.vii.2013, C. Weirauch, yellow pan trap [1 ♀, UCRCENT00446765], deposited in UCRC. Paratypes: TRINIDAD: Arima Ward, Simla (N.Y. Zool. Soc. Sta.), 10°41'49"N, 61°17'06"W, 11.vi.1977, E. E. Grissell, low vegetation, sweep [1 ♀, FSCA: UCRCENT00411916]. Arima: Simla Research Station, along ridge, 250m, 10°41'34"N, 61°17'23"W, 21–22.vii.2013, C. Weirauch, yellow pan trap [2 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00446769–70]. Simla Res.St., 250m, 10°41'36"N, 61°17'17"W, 25–26.vii.2013, Weirauch, nr bat house, YPT [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00333838]. v.2004 [1 ♀, UCRC: UCRCENT00446768].
Etymology. The Quechua word for “network,” referring to the pattern of mesosomal carinae.
description: Published as part of Burks, Roger A., Heraty, John M., Dominguez, Chrysalyn & Mottern, Jason L., 2018, Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae), pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 4401 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1207463