Stantonia mazatlanensis 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 mazatlanensis

description: Stantonia mazatlanensis sp. n.   
(figures 20, 47, 50, 64, 65)  
 Etymology. From the name of city of one paratype.   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, ” (USNM): USA: Virginia: Louisa Co. 4 mi. Cuckoo, 19 August–2 September 1987 (Malaise trap; J. Kloke and D. R. Smith). PARATYPES: USA: ”, topotypic (USNM); ”, idem but: ‘ 6–16 July 1987 ’ (USNM); ”, idem but: ‘ 16–25 June 1987 ’ (USNM); 2„„, idem but: ‘ 3–24 September 1987 ’ (USNM); ”, idem but: ‘ 7 km S Cuckoo, 23 August–11 September 1989 (Malaise trap)’ (RMNH); one specimen, Kill Devil h ills, NC, 22 July 1950 (K. V. Krombein) (AEI); ”, Colombia, S.C., 10 June 1951 (G. L. Townes) (AEI); ”, idem but: ‘ 1 September 1950 ’ (AEI); ”, Bolivar, WV, 21 September 1942 (h. K. Townes) (AEI); „, Mont Vernon, 16 July 1944 (h. K. Townes) (AEI); „, Takoma, PK Md, 5 September 1943 (h. and M. Townes) (AEI); „, Texas, Brazos Co. College Station 8 mi SUD, 20 September 1980 (R. A. Wharton) (TAMU). Mexico: ”, Sin., Mazatlan, 28 June 1962 (A.-E. Michel Bacher) (EMEC).   
Holotype, ”, length of body 4.8 mm, of fore wing 3.84 mm.  
 Head. Remaining antennal segments 22, length of third segment 1.6 times fourth, length of third and fourth segments 4 and 2.5 times their maximal widths, respectively; eyes weakly setose; length of eye in dorsal view 3.5 times temple; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, coriaceous; OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~3.0:2.0:1.0; frons smooth medially, finely punctate laterally; vertex convex, slightly punctate, flattened near stemmaticum; face convex, finely punctate, smooth and shiny between punctures, with long setae; clypeus weakly convex (quasi flattened) in lateral view, smooth and shiny with sparse punctures; length of malar space equal to basal width of mandible; malar suture present; occipital flange reduced and rounded ventrally (figure 65).   
 Mesosoma (figures 20, 64). Length of mesosoma 1.45 times its maximal height; side of pronotum crenulate medially, finely coriaceous basally and remainder smooth; mesopleuron smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus incomplete (hardly reaching anterior border of mesopleuron), finely punctate; metapleuron smooth with sparse punctures, shiny; mesoscutum sparsely punctate, depressed posteriorly; notauli punctate; scutellar sulcus narrow, with small carinae (figure 20); scutellum convex, smooth and shiny; propodeum medially convex, smooth with long setae; metapleural flange absent but ventral margin of metapleuron produced (figure 64).   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~5:28; 2-SR: r-m~8:6; second submarginal cell sessile; subbasal cell setose anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 four times longer than vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane largely glabrous basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa smooth dorsally (figure 47); lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 4.3, 8, 8 times their widths, respectively; ventral border of hind femur smooth in lateral view; hind tibia with several bristles between setae; tibial spurs 0.55 and 0.4 times basitarsus; hind tibia with four apical teeth.   
 Metasoma. First tergite 2.5 times longer than apically wide, smooth and shiny, medially concave and strongly convex apically, in lateral view (figure 47); spiracles weakly protruding (figure 50); second tergite smooth; T2 1.1 times longer than T3; second suture smooth, weakly curved; ovipositor sheath 0.42 times fore wing length.   
 Colour. Yellowish. Body more orange dorsally; ovipositor sheath, outer stripe on scapus, outer stripe on pedicellus blackish; telotarsus, antenna apically infuscate; stemmaticum dark brown; apex of hind femur yellow brownish; tegula, humeral plate, hind trochantellus brown to yellowish.   
 Variation. Hind trochantellus and stemmaticum sometimes yellowish to weakly brownish infuscate. Number of antennal segments varies between 40 and 43.   
 Remarks. Found in the USA east of the Apalachian mountains (Carolina, Virginia, Maryland), and Mexico, reaching south to 39 ‡ N latitude.   
 Stantonia minuta Enderlein, 1908   
(figures 26, 84, 95)  
 Stantonia minuta Enderlein, 1908: 111; Shenefelt, 1970: 267 [examined].   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, „ (PAIZ): Peru: Chanchamayo, Hoffmanns—Type — Stantonia minuta n. sp. „, det. Dr Enderlein, Mus. Zool. Polonicum, Warszawa, 12/45.   
 Other material examined. Argentina (IFML): Misiones, Puerto Rico: „, 5–13 November 1970 (Malaise trap; C. Porter and L. Stange). Brazil (TAMU): Rondonia, Faz. Rancho Grande, 62 km S Ariquemes, 12–22 November 1991 (E. M. Fischer). Peru (RMNH): San Remon (Junin): „, 7 July 1973 (700 m; R. Joostensz v.IJ.). Surinam (RMNH): Maratakka River: „, Awana-savanna, 26 February– 3 March 1971 (D. C. Geijskes). Nickerie River: ”, 9–16 February 1971 (Blanche Marie-Falls, Meteocamp; D. C. Geijskes). Lelydorp: ”, Sumatraweg, 4–7 April 1964 (D. C. Geijskes). Paramaribo: ” and 2„„, Charlesburg, Krepi, 18–21 January 1964 (in light forest, on shell groove; D. C. Geijskes); 2””, idem but: ‘ 14–16 January 1964 ’; ”, idem but: ‘ 11–13 January 1964 ’; 3„„, idem but: ‘ 14–16 January 1964 ’; 2„„, idem but: ‘ 13–14 January 1964 ’. Ecuador (AEI): Limoncocha: „, 21–28 June 1976 (Napo, 250 m; S. Peck).   
Holotype, „, length of body 4.8 mm, of fore wing 4.8 mm.  
 Head. Remaining antennal segments 26 and 31, length of third segment 1.3 times fourth, length of third and fourth segments four and three times their maximal width; length of eye in dorsal view three times temple; eyes with short setae; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, punctate, shiny dorsally and coriaceous ventrally (figure 84); OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~4.5:1.5:3; frons smooth medially, shiny, laterally punctate; vertex convex, punctate, flattened near stemmaticum; face convex, punctate; clypeus convex; malar suture absent; occipital flange small and straight ventrally (figure 84).   
 Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.34 times its maximal height; side of pronotum smooth, medio-anteriorly crenulate and ventrally coriaceous; mesopleuron smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus distinctly crenulate; space between punctures on mesoscutum more than puncture diameter; metapleuron smooth and sparsely punctate; scutellar sulcus smooth; scutellum convex, punctate; propodeum convex in lateral view, with some coarse transverse rugae medially, laterally smooth (figure 26); median-longitudinal carina of propodeum absent anteriorly; metapleural flange triangular and blunt apically (figure 95).   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~9:39; 2-SR: r-m~7:5; second submarginal cell weakly petiolate; subbasal cell glabrous anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 subequal to vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane largely glabrous basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa with transverse rugae dorsally (figure 26); lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 4.6, 9.2 and 10 times their widths, respectively; hind femur punctate, its ventral border in lateral view smooth; tibial spurs 0.48 and 0.28 times basitarsus; hind tibia with four apical teeth.   
 Metasoma. First tergite 2.6 times longer than apically wide, smooth and shiny, flattened; spiracles strongly protruding; second tergite smooth and shiny; T 2 1.71 times longer than T 3; second suture smooth, straight.   
 Colour. Yellow-brownish; antenna apically, apical patch on T 3– T 5, apical 0.25 of mid and hind basitarsus, following of mid and hind tarsus, apex of hind tibia dark brown; apex of hind wing infuscate; humeral plate brownish; hind tibial spurs, tegula, hind trochantellus yellowish.   
 Females. Similar to the type; ovipositor sheath 0.1 times as long as fore wing.   
 Variation. Number of antennal segments varies between 46 and 8.   
 Stantonia? nana van Achterberg, 1987 Stantonia nana van Achterberg, 1987: 39.   
 Material examined. Malaysia (AEI): Pasoh Forest Res., Negri S. (P. and M. Becker, forest or primary forest): „, 29 July 1978; „, 31 July 1978; „, 21 September 1978; „, 1 November 1978; „, 16 July 1979; „, 31 July 1979; ”, 14 August 1979; ”, 17 August 1979; „, 20 January 1980.   
 Variation. Fore wing sometimes hyaline to slightly infuscate apically.
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 pages 1558-1560, DOI: 10.1080/0022293031000155313, http://zenodo.org/record/4675799