Centistes hemicirculus Román & Almeida & Penteado-Dias & Shaw & Sarmiento 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Román, Andrea C.
name: Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De
name: Penteado-Dias, Angelica
name: Shaw, Scott Richard
name: Sarmiento, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Centistes
Centistes hemicirculus

description: Centistes hemicirculus Román & Sarmiento sp. nov.
(Figs. 12A–G, 24C)
Diagnosis: This species differs from others by the semicircular propodeal areola. Also, by the combination of the following characters: pit on the mesoscutum absent, notauli and precoxal sulcus present, propodeum dorsal and posteriorly rugulose, vein (RS+M)a absent, ovipositor sheaths short and lanceolate.
Comments: Centistes hemicirculus is similar to C. janzeni by sharing the notauli and pit of the mesoscutum being absent and the shape of the ovipositor sheaths. However, Centistes hemicirculus differs by the absence of the precoxal sulcus and the shape of the propodeal areola.
Description. Female. Body length: mesosoma length 1.63 (1.29–1.64) mm. Head (Figs. 12B–C): antenna with 27–28 flagellomeres; face setose and smooth, minimum face width 1.3 (1.4) × clypeus width, face length 0.7 (0.6) × maximum face width; clypeus setose and smooth, clypeus length 0.5 (0.4) × its width; gena sparsely setose and smooth; frons glabrous medially and smooth, vertex sparsely setose and smooth, mandibles when closed overlapping 0.5 (0.2–0.6) × mandibles length, mandible width basally 0.4 (0.5) × mandibles length; malar space length 0.3 (0.2–0.4) × eye height in lateral view, and 1.2 (0.8–1.5) × mandible width basally, eye height in lateral view 1.5 (1.4–1.5) × eye length in dorsal view; lateral ocellus separated from compound eye 1.7 (1.1–1.7) × ocellus diameter; temple length 0.8 (0.8–1.1) × eye length in dorsal view. Mesosoma (Figs. 12D, 12G): pronotum sparsely setose, with transverse dorsal sulcus, pronotum in lateral view sparsely setose, without carinae; median and lateral mesonotal lobes sparsely setose anteriorly; pit on the mesoscutum absent; notauli absent; mesoscutum width equal to its length; scutellar sulcus with transverse carina; scutellum sparsely setose, smooth; posterior scutellar depression scrobiculate; precoxal sulcus absent; metapleuron sparsely setose, metapleuron upper part scrobiculate and lower part rugulose, supramesocoxal projection absent; propodeum sparsely setose, not truncated, rugulose, dorsal areolae present, incomplete medial longitudinal carina in dorsal view, lateral longitudinal carinae in dorsal view absent, transverse dorsal carina absent; propodeal areolae present, semicircular. Legs (Fig. 12A): tarsus I to IV of fore legs without brush-like pubescence, claws basal lobe absent. Wings (Fig. 24C): vein (RS+M)a absent, stigma length 0.7 × marginal cell length, and 0.7 (0.9) vein R1 length, vein r length 0.1 (0.1–0.2) × stigma length, vein 1CUa length 0.2 (0.1–0.2) × vein 1CUb length. Metasoma (Figs. 12E–F): first tergite lineate, without median longitudinal carina, lateral longitudinal carina incomplete, basal area smooth, first tergite length 1.3 (1.3–2.3) × ovipositor sheath length; hypopygium sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor sheath sparsely setose, short, lanceolate, sheath tip dotted, thin plate on the edge absent, ovipositor sheath length 3.7 (1.8–4.4) × its width. Coloration (Fig. 12A): head darkbrown except mandible yellow-brown with dark brown tips; mesosoma black and brown except propleura yellow and dark brown; coxa and femur yellow, tibia of leg I and II yellow, leg III mostly yellow except apex brown, tarsus of leg I and II yellow, tarsus of leg III dark brown; tegula dark brown; wings hyaline, veins and stigma dark brown; metasoma dark brown.
Male: Unknown.
Examined Material: Holotype female: COLOMBIA, Boyacá, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque, Quebrada Los Francos, N 5°25’ W 73°27’, 2869 m, Malaise, 25-iv-2003 – 15-v-2003, P. Reina leg. (Deposited in IaVH, code: M 3745)
Paratypes: COLOMBIA: One female, Risaralda, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún Quimbaya, Camino Cuchilla, N 4°43’ W 75°35’, 2050 m, Malaise, 17-xi-2004 – 04-xii-2004, G. López leg., Code: M5033. One female, Risaralda, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún Quimbaya, Camino Cuchilla, N 4°43’ W 75°35’, 2050 m, Malaise, 20-iv-2004 – 11- v-2004, G. López leg., Code: M.4787. One female, Norte de Santander, Parque Nacional Natural Tamá, Municipio Toledo, Vereda Toledito, Acueducto Toledo, N 7°20’ W 72°29’, 2125 m, Malaise, 12/ 19-vii-2003, C. Leal leg., Code: M.3945. One female, Nariño, Municipio de Ricaurte, Reserva Natural La Planada, N 1°05’ W 77°24’, 1800 m. Código: ICN-ent 044200. One female, Norte de Santander, Parque Nacional Natural Tamá, Municipio Toledo, Vereda Toledito, Finca de Arquimedes, N 7°20’ W 72°29’, 1960 m, Malaise, 27-viii-2003 – 02-ix-2003, C. Leal leg., Code: M.3938. One female, Nariño, Reserva Natural La Planada, Parcela Olga, N 1°15’ W 78°15’, 1850 m, Malaise, 16-ix-2000 – 02-x-2000, G. Oliva leg., Code: M.886. One female, Valle del Cauca, Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali, Los Andes, Quebrada Honda, N 3°34’ W 76°40’, 1730 m, Malaise, 29-iv-1998 – 30-iv-1998, W. Alfonso leg., Code: M.3178. One female, Huila, Parque Nacional Natural Cueva de Los Guácharos, Alto el mirador, N 1°38’ W 76°6’, 1980 m, Malaise, 21-iii-2002 – 5-iv-2002, J. Fonseca leg., Code: M.5080. (Deposited in IaVH and ICN-ent)
Etymology: The Latin word hemicirculus, meaning a semicircle, refers to the semicircular propodeal areola.
description: Published as part of Román, Andrea C., Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De, Penteado-Dias, Angelica, Shaw, Scott Richard & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2025, Analysis of morphological variation and description of fifteen new species of the genus Centistes Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae: Centistini) with a key of the South American species, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 5613 (1) on pages 18-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215673