Centistes itamontiensis 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 itamontiensis

description: Centistes itamontiensis Almeida & Penteado-Dias sp. nov.
(Figs. 15A–E, 25D)
Diagnosis: Vein (RS+M)a absent; pit on mesoscutum absent; notauli absent; median mesonotal lobe setose anteriorly and glabrous posteriorly; dorsal areola of propodeum absent; hypopygium rounded. ovipositor sheath length 2.6–3.4 × its width; malar space 1.2–1.4 × basal width of mandible; and face dark brown.
Comments: Centistes itamontiensis is similar to C. janzeni and C. hexagonalis in that all three share the vein (RS+M)a being absent, notauli and pit on mesoscutum being absent, and a similar hypopygium and ovipositor sheath. C. itamontiensis can be identified by the combination of the dorsal areola of propodeum being absent and the malar space 1.20–1.40 × basal width of mandible.
Description. Female Body length: 2.38 (2.38–2.80) mm; mesosoma length 1.06 (1.06–1.15) mm. Head (Fig. 15B–C): Antenna with 24 (24–25) flagellomeres; occipital carina complete; scape cylindrical; face setose and punctate, its minimum width 1.8 (1.6–1.8) × clypeus width, face height 0.6 (0.6–0.8) × its maximum width; clypeus setose and punctate, its height 0.6 (0.5–0.6) × clypeus width; gena setose and puncticulate; frons smooth and polished; vertex smooth with just a few setae; basal width of mandible 0.5 (0.5–0.6) × its length; malar space 0.3 (0.3–0.4) × eye height; malar space 1.3 (1.2–1.4) × basal width of mandible; eye height 1.7 (1.5–1.7) × its length; ocell-ocular distance 1.6 (1.4–1.6) × ocellar diameter; temple length 1.2 (1.0–1.2) × eye length in dorsal view. Mesosoma (Figs. 15C–D): Pronotum in lateral view slightly rugulose with a strong transversal carina anteriorly, mostly glabrous, with just a few setae on borders; transverse sulcus of pronotum absent; mesonotal lobes smooth and mostly glabrous except median lobe setose anteriorly; pit on mesoscutum absent; notauli absent; mesoscutum width 1.0 (1.0–1.1) × its length; scutellar sulcus with a transverse carina (or scrobiculate); scutellum sparsely setose; posterior scutellar depression scrobiculate; mesopleuron smooth and mostly glabrous, with sparse setae on its borders; precoxal sulcus rugose (and often short); metapleuron carinate-rugose with dorsomedial area smooth; projection of metapleuron absent; propodeum with medial longitudinal carina incomplete, lateral longitudinal carinae and dorsal areola absent, ventral areola oblong (or pentagonal with two upper depressions), dorsal transverse carina complete; propodeum with dorsal sculpture rugulose, posterior sculpture rugose and sparsely setose. Legs (Fig. 15A): Tarsal claw simple; hind coxa rugulose and setose. Wings (Fig. 25D): Vein (RS+M)a absent; stigma length 1.1 (0.8–1.1) × vein R1 length; vein r length 0.1 (0.1–0.2) × stigma length; vein CUa 0.2 (0.2–0.3) × vein CUb. Metasoma (Figs. 15D–E): T1 costate, with incomplete medial and lateral carinae (sometimes carinae very weak, almost absent), its length 1.5 (1.5–1.9) × ovipositor sheath length; ovipositor sheath lanceolate, without a thin plate on its border; sheath length 3.2 (2.6–3.4) × its width; hypopygium rounded, sparsely setose. Coloration (Fig. 15A): body dark brown with clypeus ventrally and antenna brown, legs, propleura and ventral half of pronotum yellow (hind tarsus and apex of tibia brown in some specimens).
Examined Material: Holotype female: Itamonte, MG, Brazil, PARNA de Itatiaia, S 22° 21’ 50,6” W 44° 44’ 38.4”, Armadilha Malaise 04, 2176m, 22.xii.2011, R.F. Monteiro col., DCBU100907.
Paratypes: 6 females: DCBU100906, DCBU100915, DCBU100916, DCBU100917, same data as holotype; DCBU274623, DCBU274626 Itamonte, MG, Brazil, Serra da Mantiqueira (RPPN-APA-UCF), S 22° 22’ 25” W 44° 48’ 41”, Malaise 9, 2149 m, 10.xii.2015, A.S. Soares & L.A.M. Soares cols.
Etymology: The specific epithet of this species is a reference to its type locality, the city of Itamonte.
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 24-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215673