Amputoearinus flavocacumen Lindsay and Sharkey, sp.n.
Creators: name: Lindsay, Cheryl
name: Sharkey, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Amputoearinus
Amputoearinus flavocacumen

description: Amputoearinus flavocacumen Lindsay and Sharkey sp.n. (Figs. 2 e, 6f)
Diagnosis: This species can be hard to differentiate from other species of Amputoearinus because the distinguishing characteristic is antenna melanic with yellow tips. Some specimens have antenna tips broken and otherwise morphological characters mirror those of Amputoearinus seltmannae. Differences in the degree of depression of the median areola of the mesosoma, and the shape of the propodeal projection help differentiate these species. A. flavocacumen has a gradual depression from posterior to anterior of the median areola of the mesosoma and propodeal structure reduced to a very small protuberance anteromedially. A. seltmannae has a steep depression posteriorly of the median areola of the mesosoma and a well defined protuberance anteromedially of the propodeum.
Description: Holotype Ψ
Body length: 6.1(5.9–8.4) mm. Color: body yellow except melanic as follows: flagellomeres except yellow tips, scape laterally, midtarsus and hind tibia distally, hind tarsus; ovipositor sheaths; posterior three terga darker yellow than anterior terga; forewing banded from base yellow, infuscate, yellow, infuscate; foremargin infuscate throughout (cf. Fig. 4 g). Head: antenna with 39 (39–46) flagellomeres. Mesosoma: scutellar sulcus lacking longitudinal carina (cf. Fig. 6 d); projection of propleuron blunt (Fig. 6 f); median areola of mesosoma gradually depressed from posterior to anterior of mesosoma with sharp carinae laterally and posteriorly (cf. Fig. 7 c); propodeal sculpture reduced to small protuberance anteromedially (cf. Fig. 5 f); margin between metepimeron and metepisternum smooth lacking transverse carinae (cf. Fig. 7 b); mesopleural suture with weak transverse carinae; carina bordering subpronope posteriorly, extending to anterior margin of pronotum (cf. Fig. 6a); length of midtibial spur 0.5mm; length of midbasitarsomere 0.6mm; midtibia with 2–3 pegs at midlength, lacking pegs apically; hind tibia with 2–3 pegs apically; forewing length 5.9 (6.2–7.9)mm. Metasoma: median syntergite 2+3 length 1.3mm, width 1.0mm.
Variation: paratype males: body yellow except for melanic as follows: antenna, with tips yellow, midtarsomere apically, hind tibia apically; propodeum completely smooth; median areola of mesosoma not as depressed posteriorly. Female paratype from French Guiana with propodeum completely smooth; median areola of mesosoma only slightly depressed posteriorly; forewing with yellow patch in basal third.
Etymology: from the Latin flavus for yellow, and cacumen for extreme point, because of the yellow tipped antenna of this species.
Specimen examined: HOLOTYPE. Ψ, PERU, Quince Mil, [13°13’44”S 70°45’36”W], 20–30.x.1962, R.D. Shenefelt, (AEI).
PARATYPES. BRAZIL, Ψ, Utinga, Belem, [23°37’60”S 46°31’60”W], xii. [19]66, S.J. Oliveira, (antennae tips broken off), (AEI). FRENCH GUIANA, Ψ, Regina Road Roura-Kaw, km 40, 04°32’01”N 52°07’45”W, alt 276m, Kaw Mountain, Oct. 2004, O. Morvan leg, (antennae tips broken), (HIC). PERU: ♂, Pucallpa, [7°50’60”S 72°43’W], 200m, Loreto, 21–31.x.1964, collector J. Schunke, (LACM). ♂, Quince Mil, [13°13’44”S 70°45’36”W], 10–15 xi-1962, (head broken off and placed on triangular point, along with left hind wing), (AEI).
description: Published as part of Lindsay, Cheryl & Sharkey, Michael, 2006, Revision of the genus Amputoearinus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) with fourteen new species, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1329 on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174171