Anicetus Howard 1896
Creators: name: Noyes, John Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Anicetus

description: Key to Costa Rican species of Anicetus   
 (Females)   
 1. Pedicel (Fig. 1262) almost symmetrical in profile, subtriangular without a conspicuous, elongate ventral projection; hind tibia pale yellow with a pair of conspicuous dark brown rings........................................................... annulatus Timberlake (p. 506)   
- Pedicel (Figs 1268, 1274-1279, 1295, 1300) strongly asymmetric in profile with dorsal margin straight and ventral margin conspicuously elongate; hind tibia orange to dark brown, occasionally orange with a pair of broad dark brown rings............ 2  
2 (1) Frontovertex (Fig. 1269) throughout with distinct punctate-reticulate sculpture of cell size slightly smaller than diameter of eye facet; funicle (Fig. 1268) not longer than first segment of clava (measured dorsally).......................................................... 3  
- Frontovertex mostly smooth and shiny, with very shallow sculpture only in ocellar area; funicle (Figs 1274-1279, 1295, 1300) longer than first segment of clava............4  
 3 (2) Ovipositor clearly exserted (Hab. 186), exserted part about 1.3X as long as mid tibial spur..................................................................................... arche sp.nov. (p. 508)   
 - Ovipositor hardly exserted, the exserted part not more than half as long as mid tibial spur..................................................................................... oroso sp.nov. (p. 510)   
 4 (2) Ovipositor not exserted or hardly so with exserted part not more than 0.7X as long as mid tibial spur (Hab. 187, 188)............................................... lysithea sp.nov. (p. 511)   
- Ovipositor strongly exserted (Hab. 189), the exserted part at least as long as mid tibial spur....................................................................................................................... 5  
 5 (3) Scape (Fig. 1295) relatively broad, at most 1.4X as long as broad [length measured from base to distal margin of ventral lamina; width from dorsal margin in distal half of scape to ventral margin of lamina]; clava less than 2X as long as broad......................................................................................................... cheras sp.nov. (p. 515)   
 - Scape narrow, at least about 1.6X as long as broad; clava more than 2X as long as broad................................................................................. apatos sp.nov. (p. 517)
description: Published as part of Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), pp. 1-921 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 2 (11) on pages 505-506, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8074943