Stantonia rossa 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 rossa

description: Stantonia rossa sp. n.   
(figures 1, 39, 72–74)  
 Etymology. From the Latinization of the French word ‘rosse’.   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, ” (AEI): Costa Rica: S. Rosa Park, Guan., 14 May 1976 (Riparian; D. H. Janzen). PARATYPES: Costa Rica: ”, topotypic but: ‘ 14 May 1976 ’ (AEI); „, topotypic but: ‘ 16 May 1978 ’ (AEI); „, topotypic but: ‘ 4 October 1977 ’ (AEI); 2”” and 2„„, Puntarenas, RF Golfo Dulce el 200 m, 24 km W Piedras Blancas, July 1992 (P. Hanson) (TAMU); ”, idem but: ‘ September 1992 ’ (TAMU); ”, Heredia, Puerto Viejo OTS, La Selva, 100 m, January 1993 (P. Hanson) (TAMU). Mexico (AEI): Yucatan: one unsexed specimen, May 1957 (G. F. Townes). Nicaragua: Masaya: 2”” and „, Las flores, June 1993 (U. V.; C. Lecocq and I. Cantamessa) (MEL); Managua: ”, La Calera, 25 July 1958 (‘Ex. Laphygma frugiperda ’; M. Vaughan)—Estrada 59-510 (USNM); Zelaya: ”, El Recreo, October 1984 (EAPZ).   
Holotype, ”, length of body 4.3 mm, of fore wing 3.6 mm.  
 Head (figure 72). Remaining antennal segments 45, length of antenna 1.7 times fore wing, length of third segment 1.3 times fourth, length of third, fourth and penultimate segments 4, 3 and 2.2 times their maximal width, flagellomeres with two ranks of placodes, apical segment 2.4 times its maximal width; eyes sparsely setose; length of eye in dorsal view 1.6 times temple; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, punctate, weakly coriaceous ventrally and smooth dorsally, shiny (figure 1); OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~4.0:2.0:3.0; frons smooth medially, shiny, laterally punctate; vertex convex, slightly punctate, flattened near stemmaticum; face convex, punctate; clypeus convex and punctate; length of malar space 1 times basal width of mandible; malar suture present; occipital flange straight and small.   
 Mesosoma (figure 73). Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its maximal height; side of pronotum medially rugose, basally coriaceous and remainder smooth; mesopleuron punctate, smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus distinctly punctate, not reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron; metapleuron finely punctate; mesoscutum sparsely punctate; scutellar sulcus narrow with small carinae; scutellum convex; propodeum convex in lateral view, smooth and punctate with some weak transverse vermiculous rugae medially (figure 39); metapleural flange triangular and blunt.   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~7:28; 2-SR: r-m~3.0:2.0; second submarginal cell subsessile; subbasal cell setose anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 1.5 times longer than vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane largely setose basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa smooth, with some rugae dorsally (figure 74); lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.0, 6.3 and 9.5 times their widths, respectively; tibial spurs 0.7 and 0.47 times basitarsus; hind femur smooth and punctate, its ventral border smooth in lateral view; hind tibia with six apical teeth.   
 Metasoma. First tergite 2.8 times longer than apically wide, smooth and shiny, apically flattened (figure 74); spiracles protruding; second tergite smooth and shiny; T2 1.25 times longer than T3; second suture obsolescent; ovipositor sheath 0.18 times fore wing length.   
 Colour. Brownish yellow. Stemmaticum, ovipositor sheath, dorso-apical patch on hind femur, apical third of hind tibia, apical quarter of hind basitarsus blackish; tegula apically, remainder of hind basitarsus, mid tarsus, apex of mid tibia, apex of antenna infuscate; hind trochantellus, humeral plate yellowish; hind tibial spurs, basal third of hind basitarsus whitish yellow; wing subhyaline without apical patch.   
 Stantonia? ruficornis Enderlein, (1918) 1920   
 Stantonia ruficornis Enderlein, (1918) 1920: 58; Shenefelt, 1970: 267 [not found].   
 Material examined. Malaysia (AEI): Pasoh Forest Res., Negri S.: „, 11 February 1980 (primary forest; P. and M. Becker). Nepal (AEI): Chitwan Nat. Park: ”, 25–27 April 1980 (4500 ft; C. h. Townes). Philippines (AEI): Alcate, Vict Mdro, 1 April 1954 (h., M. and D. Townes).   
 Stantonia rufithorax Enderlein, (1918) 1920   
(figures 33, 54, 133, 135)  
 Stantonia rufithorax Enderlein (1918) 1920: 122; Shenefelt, 1970: 268 [examined].   
 Type material. HOLOTYPE, „ (PIAZ): Colombia: (Hac. Pehlke) E. Pehlke S.— Type— Stantonia rufithorax type Enderl. „ (handwriting), Dr Enderlein 1919—Mus. Zool. Polonicum, Warszawa, 12/45.   
Holotype, „, length of body 4.4 mm, of fore wing 3.7 mm.  
 Head. Remaining antennal segments 10 and 11, length of third segment 1.4 times fourth, length of third and fourth segments 3.5 and 2.5 times their maximal widths, respectively; maxillary palp 1.7 times height of head; eyes setose (figure 135), protuberant in frontal view; length of eye in dorsal view twice temple; temple directly narrowed posteriorly, smooth; OOL: diameter of ocellus: POL~5.0:1.0:1.0; frons smooth and shiny; vertex flattened near stemmaticum, smooth, shiny and sparsely finely punctate; face rather flattened in lateral view, shiny and sparsely punctate; clypeus flattened and smooth; gena view very short (figure 54); length of malar space one times basal width of mandible; malar suture absent; occipital flange rounded posteriorly, straight ventrally and very wide (figure 54).   
 Mesosoma (figure 33). Length of mesosoma 1.4 times its maximal height; side of pronotum smooth, finely punctate antero-medially, not posteriorly, ventrally weakly coriaceous; mesopleuron smooth and shiny; precoxal sulcus only weakly impressed, hardly reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron; metapleuron finely punctate, its ventral border with blunt angulation; metapleural flange absent; mesoscutum sparsely punctate; scutellar sulcus with small carina posteriorly; notauli punctate; mesopleuron, mesoscutum, metapleuron, propodeum highly setose; scutellum convex, shiny and smooth; surface of propodeum medially convex in lateral view, smooth, shiny; midlongitudinal carina absent anteriorly; metapleural flange absent (figure 33).   
 Wings. Fore wing: r: SR1z3-SR~6:31; 2-SR: r-m~7:5; second submarginal cell weakly petiolate (subsessile on the other wing); subbasal cell setose anteriorly; vein 3-CU1 three times longer than vein CU1b. Hind wing: 2-M coloured; membrane setose basally.   
 Legs. Hind coxa smooth and shiny, very setose; hind femur punctate; lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.3, 12 and 10 times their widths, respectively; legs setose; tibial spurs 0.4 and 0.25 times basitarsus; hind tibia with three apical teeth.   
 Metasoma (figure 133). First tergite 4.6 times longer than apically wide, smooth but finely punctate, flattened in lateral view; spiracles weakly protruding; second tergite smooth and shiny; T 2 equal to longer than T 3; second suture smooth and straight (almost very weakly curved).   
 Colour. Blackish rufous. All of hind leg (except extreme base of hind tibia), T 1– T 8, S3–S8, frons, vertex, upper part of temple, mid tarsus, scapus, pedicellus, antennal segments blackish; mid tibia strongly, dorsal apical patch of mid femur, wings weakly infuscate; tegula, dorsal stripe on mid femur dark brownish; mid coxa, face, humeral plate rather yellowish.   
 Stantonia sabahensis van Achterberg, 1987 Stantonia sabahensis van Achterberg, 1987: 44.   
 Material examined. Malaysia (AEI): Pasoh Forest Res., Negri S. (P. and M.   
Becker): ”, 2 December 1979.
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 1573-1576, DOI: 10.1080/0022293031000155313, http://zenodo.org/record/4675799