Doryctobracon maculatus Marinho & De Souza-Filho & Raga & Santos & Zucchi 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Marinho, Cláudia F.
name: De Souza-Filho, Miguel F.
name: Raga, Adalton
name: Santos, Wyratan Da S.
name: Zucchi, Roberto A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Doryctobracon
Doryctobracon maculatus

description: Doryctobracon maculatus Marinho sp. nov.   
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(Figs 1 A–H, 2 A–E)  
  Diagnosis.  Doryctobracon maculatus sp. nov. is readily separated from the other species of Doryctobracon, as it is the only species with dark-brown to black spots on the head, lobe of mesoscutum, mesopleura, mesosternum and dorsal metasoma (Fig 1A–G). Besides the dark spots on the body, D. maculatus is also distinguished from the species of group 1 (areolate propodeum), namely D. areolatus, D. adaimei, D. fluminensis and D. whartoni.   
 Type material. Holotype. Female (ESALQENT0261), Brazil, São Paulo, Piracicaba, 23-III-2006, reared from larva of Anastrepha pseudoparallela (Loew) in sweet passion fruit (Passiflora alata Curtis), coll. Wyratan S. Santos. Paratype with same data as holotype, 1 female (ESALQENT0262); 2 females (ESALQENTO263 and 581), São Roque, SP, 31.III.2000, reared from larva of Anastrepha pseudoparallela (Loew) in sweet passion fruit (Passiflora alata Curtis), colls. Miguel F. Souza-Filho and Adalton Raga.   
Female. Length of body, excluding ovipositor, 5.7–6.7 mm.  
 Head. 1.4–1.5 × wider than long; 1.2–1.3 × wider than width of mesoscutum; face polished and shiny, distinctly setose, weakly punctate; midridge smooth, weakly developed (Fig 2A); distance between toruli equal to distance from torulus to eye. Antenna longer than body, 7.7–9.7 mm in length, with 58 to 60 flagellomeres; first flagellomere about 0.9–1.0 × length of second flagellomere, 1.4–1.8 × longer than wide. Eyes large, 1.2–1.3 × wider than high (Fig 2A); in dorsal view, eye 1.7–1.8 × wider than temple width; in lateral view 2.1–2.2 × longer than temple length; malar space 0.4–0.5 × eye height. Clypeus 2.7–4.0 × wider than high, sinuate with median lobe on ventral margin, polished, obscuring labrum, with sparse setae, two to three times longer than setae on face (Fig 2A).   
 Mesosoma. 1.3–1.5 × longer than high; 1.8–1.9 × longer than wide; 1.2–1.4 × higher than wide. Pronotum not visible dorsally; median lobe and lateral lobes of mesoscutum polished, shiny, with few sparse bristle-like setae; notaulus smooth, complete, deeper anteriorly and shallower posteriorly, converging in large impression without midpit (Fig 2B); scutellar sulcus divided into two large pits by median longitudinal carina; scutellum smooth with small punctures, margins setose (Fig 2B); mesopleuron shiny, smooth, without longitudinal impression; propodeum with anterior median longitudinal carina (0.11–0.14 mm) followed by complete posterior areola; anteriorly, on both sides of areola, small transverse carinae radiate without reaching lateral longitudinal carina (only one, which appears at midpoint of areola, reaches lateral longitudinal carina). Many bristle-like setae coincide with the carinae, from center, anteroposterior region and base of propodeum and metapleura (Figs 1F, 2D).   
 Metasoma. 1.9–2.2 × longer than wide and 1.0–1.6 × wider than high; length of T 1 0.8–1.0 × greater than width at apex; T 1 apex about 1.3–1.5 × width at base; tergum completely smooth, polished and shiny (Figs 1G, 2C); T 1 with two parallel dorsal keels, just above spiracles, well developed at base but indistinct posteriorly (Figs 1G, 2C); spiracles just before midpoint of T 1; ovipositor about 5.6–6.4 mm long; ovipositor sheath twice as large as metasoma; ovipositor with one subapical dorsal node and ventral serrations, similar to D. areolatus (Fig 2E).   
 Wings. Fore wing infumate, stigma, veins and setae dark brown, 5.9–6.6 mm long; stigma 3.5–3.7 × longer than wide, with vein r slightly projecting from its midpoint; (RS+M)a 1.2–1.4 × longer than 3RSa; 2RS 1.1–1.2 × longer than 3RSa, 1.3–1.4 × longer than 1m-cu and 2.0–2.2 × longer than r-m; 1m-cu directly in line with 2RS; 3RSa 2.0–2.5 × longer than vein r; 2M 1.7–1.8 × longer than 3RSa (Fig 1H). Hind wing 3.8–4.8 mm long, m-cu present and distinctly pigmented (Fig 1H).   
 General coloration. Head and mesosoma orange or reddish orange. Head with black to dark reddish-brown spot resembling dorsomedian band posterior to toruli, which widens as band surrounding the ocellar triangle, vertex, and reaching occiput (Fig 1B); mandibles orange with black apex; pronotum with dark red-brown spots on anterolateral margin, close to propleura, and posteriorly close to scutellum, which gradually fade to orange-red tones and, finally, orange in the center (Figs 1A, 1D); mesoscutum with median mesonotal lobe with semi-oval black spot; lateral mesonotal lobes with broad black bands that reach anterolateral region of scutellum (Fig 1C); mesopleuron with anterior dorsoventral third reddish orange, and posterior margin light orange, remaining part completely black, reaching and involving mesosternum (Figs 1D, 1F); propodeum, metapleura, labial and maxillary palps light yellow; front and median legs with apical tarsomere black (Fig 1A); hind legs dark-brown to black except coxa yellow with small smoky dark-brown spots, posterior third of femur orange to orange-red, external anterior region of tibia with small round orange area, posterior extremities of trochanter and tarsi red-orange (Figs 1A, 1E); metasoma T 1, T 2 and sternum yellow, terga T 3 to T 6 with dark-brown to black crossbands (Fig 1G) (only one specimen, from São Roque, showed color variation, i.e., dark mark between dorsal carinae of pronotum laterally and on T 1 posteriorly); ovipositor sheath dark brown, ovipositor red-orange (Fig 1A); scape, pedicel and flagellomeres dark brown, anellus red-orange (Fig 1A); and tegulae reddish-orange (Fig 1C, 1D). Fore wing and hind wing infumate; stigma, veins and setae dark brown (Fig 1H).   
 Male. Unknown.   
 Etymology. From the Latin, past participle of maculare, meaning spotted, referring to the dark spots on the head and body.
description: Published as part of Marinho, Cláudia F., De Souza-Filho, Miguel F., Raga, Adalton, Santos, Wyratan Da S. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2021, A new species of Doryctobracon Enderlein (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) parasitizing larvae of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera, Tephritidae), with illustrated key to species of Doryctobracon that parasitize fruit-infesting tephritids in Brazil, pp. 159-166 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on pages 160-161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4655885