Triraphis ocellatus Jasso-Martinez, Zaldivar-Riveron & Martinez 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M.
name: Martínez, Juan José
name: Aguilar-Velasco, Reina Gabriela
name: Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Triraphis
Triraphis ocellatus

description: Triraphis ocellatus Jasso-Martínez, Zaldívar-Riverón & Martínez sp. nov.
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Fig. 2
Diagnosis
Triraphis ocellatus sp. nov. is a species with the shortest ocellus-eye distance, which is about ¼ of lateral ocellus width (Fig. 2B). This species keyed to T. simphlex Valerio, 2015 using Valerio & Shaw’s (2015) key based on the ocellus-eye distance; however, T. ocellatus sp. nov. can be distinguished from the latter species by having more than 50 flagellomeres (in one of the paratypes, the remaining type specimens had the antennae broken) and by the brown coloration in the last three metasomal tergites.
Etymology
The name of this species refers to its ocelli, which are distinctly bigger than the ocelli of the remaining species.
Material examined
Holotype
MEXICO • ♀; Jalisco, Chamela Biological Station UNAM, Camino Chachalaca, Cham 113; 19.4559° N, 105.04202° W; 113 m a.s.l.; 19 Nov. 2012; E. Martínez and O. Pérez leg.; Malaise trap; DNA voucher no. CNIN1246; GenBank accession no. OQ868180; CNIN-IBUNAM.
Paratypes
MEXICO • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; DNA voucher nos CNIN1179, 1163, 1133; GenBank accession nos OQ868181, OQ868179, OQ868178; CNIN-IBUNAM.
Description
Female (holotype)
MEASUREMENTS. Body length 10.4 mm; fore wing length 8.0 mm; ovipositor 2 mm.
COLOR. Head honey yellow to brown; eyes silverish brown; ocelli with a fine whitish yellow line around edges, ocelar triangle dark brown; scape and pedicel dark brown to black; flagellomeres incomplete, dark brown to black, turning honey yellow to apex; mandibles honey yellow, teeth brown; mesosoma, legs and metasoma honey yellow; third to fifth metasomal tergites with brown apical areas, remaining metasomal tergites mostly brown; fore wings hyaline, with a brownish infuscate area below stigma comprising areas surrounding veins r, 2Rs, 2M and CU; pterostigma honey yellow turning dark brown medially; veins honey yellow to brown; hind wings hyaline; tarsal claws brown. Ovipositor and ovipositor sheaths honey yellow to brown.
HEAD. Head 1.6 times wider than its median length (dorsal view); distance between basal edges of tentorial pits and the basal area of toruli almost as long as maximum width of face; width of oral opening 1.1 times its height. Vertex, temple, and gena mostly smooth; face colliculate turning punctate near clypeus, finely striate near toruli with sparse, long setae; clypeus smooth finely-colliculate; mandible with two teeth; malar suture present.Antennae broken, with 23 and 42 flagellomeres respectively; first flagellomere 2.2 times longer than wide, 1.4 times longer than second flagellomere; eye 1.6 times higher than broad; malar space 0.17 times height of eye; face width about 0.7 times height of eye, almost as long as height of face and clypeus combined; occipital carina complete slightly narrow dorsally; median ocellus as big as lateral ocelli; ocellus-eye distance about ¼ of lateral ocellus width.
MESOSOMA. Length of mesosoma 2.4 times its maximum width (dorsal view), 1.3 times its maximum height (lateral view); pronotal groove smooth and scrobiculate, wide apically; propleuron colliculate; notauli wide, deep and scrobiculate, not meeting, finishing just before the end of mesoscutum; medial pit present; median and lateral mesoscutal lobes strongly colliculate, lateral lobes turning coriaceous near notauli posteriorly; mesopleuron smooth-colliculate, dorso-laterally costate; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, running along two thirds of mesopleuron, almost vertically strigate below precoxal sulcus; metapleuron colliculate-coriaceous turning areolate posteriorly; with a distinct, posterior tubercle; propodeum rugose-areolate, basally colliculate, median carina ¼ of propodeum length, areola and basal areas almost indistinct.
LEGS. Hind coxa 1.5 times longer than wide. Length of hind femur 5.0 times its maximum width. Hind basitarsus 0.5 times longer than hind tibia; length of hind basitarsus 0.85 times combined length of second to fifth tarsal segments. Second, third, fourth and fifth tarsal segments 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.25 times as long as basitarsus. Tarsal claws with a basal, pointed lobe, followed by sharp spines.
WINGS. Fore wing length about 2.6 times its maximum width; pterostigma 4.3 times longer than wide; vein lCUb 0.88 times vein RS+Ma; vein 3RSa 0.6 times vein 3RSb, 4.0 times vein r; angle at union 2RS and 2M wide. Hind wing length 3.6 times its maximum width; vein M+CU almost as long as vein 1M and 2.3 times vein r-m; vein 1A 1.2 times vein cu-a.
METASOMA. 1.6 times longer than head and mesosoma combined, with seven visible tergites. First tergite, 1.4 times longer than its maximum width; maximum width about 2.0 times its basal width; longitudinally costate with coriaceous sculpture between carinae, with a longitudinal median carina running along its entire length. Length of second tergite 1.1 times its maximum width, 2.0 times length of third tergite, second tergite longitudinally costate with coriaceous sculpture between carinae; third tergite longitudinally costulate on basal two thirds, finely coriaceous on apical third. Remaining tergites finely coriaceous. Ovipositor about 0.3 times as long as metasoma.
Variation in females
Body length 7.9–10.4 mm; fore wing length 7.0–8.0 mm; ovipositor 2.0– 2.5 mm. Almost all antennae broken, with 15–72 flagellomeres.
Males
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known for the CBS in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
Biology
Unknown.
description: Published as part of Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M., Martínez, Juan José, Aguilar-Velasco, Reina Gabriela & Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, 2024, Four new species of Triraphis Ruthe, 1855 (Braconidae, Rogadinae) from a Mexican tropical dry forest and morphological descriptions of T. bradzlotnicki Sharkey, 2021 and T. davidwahli Sharkey, 2021, pp. 50-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 917 on pages 56-59, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.917.2387, http://zenodo.org/record/10464888