Stantonia scotti Braet & Quicke 2004, sp. n.
Creators: name: Braet, Yves
name: Quicke, Donald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Stantonia
Stantonia scotti

description: Stantonia scotti sp. n.   
 Etymology. In honour of Scott R. Shaw.   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, „ (UWIM): Peru: Tingo Maria, 5–12 October 1964 (620 m; C. C. Porter).   
Holotype, „, length of body 3.5 mm, of fore wing 3.3 mm.  
 Head. Antenna with 38 segments, length of third segment 1.3 times fourth, length of third, fourth and penultimate segments 4, 3 and 1.1 times their maximal width, respectively; length of apical segment 1.8 its maximal width; eyes setose and protuberant in frontal view; length of eye in dorsal view 2.7 times temple; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, sparsely punctate, shiny; OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~8.0:3.0:2.0; frons smooth medially, shiny; vertex flattened near stemmaticum, smooth and shiny; face shortened, weakly convex (quasi flat) in lateral view, shiny, sparsely punctate with long setae; clypeus weakly convex and smooth; gena in frontal view very short; length of malar space equal to basal width of mandible; maxillary palps reaching mid coxae, 1.6 times height of head; malar suture absent; occipital flange large, its ventral margin straight.   
 Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.25 times its maximal height; side of pronotum smooth posteriorly near tegula, antero-medially finely crenulate and finely coriaceous ventrally; mesopleuron smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus largely punctate and hardly reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron; metapleuron finely punctate, its ventral border with a small rounded bump; metapleural flange absent; mesoscutum sparsely punctate; scutellar sulcus medium-sized with small carinae posteriorly; notauli finely punctate; mesopleuron, scutum, metapleuron, propodeum setose; scutellum convex, shiny and setose; propodeum medially convex, smooth, shiny and sometimes coriaceous anteriorly.   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~7:35; 2-SR: r-m~8:5; second submarginal cell clearly petiolate; subbasal cell setose anteriorly; vein cu-a weakly antefurcal; vein 3-CU1 twice longer than vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane weakly setose basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa finely aciculate and shiny; lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.7, 10.6 and 13.5 times their widths, respectively; legs setose; tibial spurs 0.26 and 0.4 times basitarsus; hind tibia without apical teeth; presence of bristles on outer side of femurs.   
 Metasoma. First tergite 4.1 times longer than apically wide, finely coriaceous, weakly concave medially in lateral view; spiracles weakly protruding; second tergite shiny, medially finely punctate, smooth elsewhere; T2 1.2 times longer than T3; second tergite 1.7 its maximal width; second suture smooth and curved.   
 Colour. Yellowish. Outer stripe on scapus, antennal segments, trochantellus, apex of hind tibia, hind spurs, hind tarsi dark brownish; hind femur basally, apex of third tergite and following brownish; fore wing weakly infuscate, veins darkish.   
 Remarks. This species is closely related to S. rufithorax, but it may be distinguished by its longer T1 and by the coloration of the mesosoma and mid coxa.
description: Published as part of Braet, Yves & Quicke, Donald, 2004, A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimagathidini with revisionary notes on the genus Stantonia Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae), pp. 1489-1589 in Journal of Natural History 38 (12) on page 1577, DOI: 10.1080/0022293031000155313, http://zenodo.org/record/4675799