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: Key to species of leucotela group species of Conura
1 Body mainly black to brown, yellow and orange marks reduced (Figs 1A, 3A, 5A) (only females known)............... 2
1’ Body not so darkened, at least most of head, meso- and metapleuron, propodeum, and legs yellow to orange (Figs 7A, 8A) (only males known)........................................................................................ 4
2 Pronotal anterior furrow delimited posteriorly by a sharp margin (Fig. 3D, arrow heads); mesoscutellum with median unfoveate strip over basal half (Fig. 3F); Gt7+8 at most 0.3× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined (Fig. 4C); propodeum oblique (Figs 3A, 4A, 4D); Gs1 not projected forward, petiole attached to gastral base (Fig. 4D)................ Conura paraleucotela sp. nov.
2’ Pronotal anterior furrow not delimited posteriorly by a sharp margin (Fig. 5D); mesoscutellum with median unfoveate strip restricted to basal third (Figs 1D, 5F); Gt7+8 at least 0.7× as long as Gt1–Gt6 combined (Figs 2C, 6D); propodeum perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of mesosoma (Figs 1A, 2C, 5A, 6A, 6D); Gs1 projected forward under metasternum so petiole attached to Gt1 dorsum (Figs 1A, 2C, 6D: Gs1, PT)................................................................. 3
3 Lower face with inconspicuous transverse raised strip below antennal foramen (Fig. 1B: RS); mesoscutum median area with small and very deep umbilicate foveae, interstices very narrow so sculpture appears alveolate (Fig. 1C); Gt6 with posterior margin deeply emarginate (Fig. 2B, red dashed line).................................... Conura leucotela (Walker)
3’ Lower face with conspicuous transverse carina below antennal foramen (Fig. 5B: TC); mesoscutum median area with regular umbilicate foveae, interstices not so narrow so sculpture appears reticulate (Fig. 5E); Gt6 with posterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 6C, red dashed line)................................................ Conura pseudoleucotela sp. nov.
4 Clava tapering toward apex (Fig. 7C); propodeum with median carina continuous and extending virtually from anterior to posterior margin (Fig. 7F: MCP), without submedian carina and median areola; petiole about 1.5× as long as wide, with a median carina dorsally; malar area, propodeum and metacoxa with distinct black markings (Figs 7A, B, F); metafemur with external face yellow, ventral margin black (Fig. 7A)..................................................... .... Conura sp. 1
4’ Clava with parallel sides (Fig. 8C); propodeum with median carina very short and with submedian carinae delimiting a median areola (Fig. 8F: MAP); petiole about 0.6× as long as wide, without a median carina dorsally; malar area, propodeum and metacoxa (except distal brown spot ventrally) yellow to orange (Figs 8A, B, F); metafemur with external face dark brown on basal third and orange on distal two thirds............................................................ Conura sp. 2
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 page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4604424