Dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, anteriorly dark/posteriorly

Femora colour (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, Ing beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Physique in lateral view: not distinctly anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complicated colour: tegula pale, humeral complicated half pale/half dark. Pterostigma colour: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mainly white or completely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna about provided that body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, no less than extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Physique length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.five?.six mm or 3.7?.eight mm. Fore wing journal.pone.0077579 length: 3.9?.0 mm. Ocular cellar line/Ing beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4?.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.6?.eight. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4?.six. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0?.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine ike seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0?.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4?.five. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by significantly less than two.0 ?its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mainly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 11 or 12. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.eight or a lot more. Propodeum areola: totally defined by carinae, which includes transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: largely sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 1.1?.3. Mediotergite 1 shape: clearly widening towards posterior margin. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mainly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite two width at posterior margin/length: 3.six?.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: with some sculpture, mainly near posterior margin. Outer margin of hypopygium: fnins.2013.00251 having a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi?desclerotized area; generally with four or a lot more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: about exact same width throughout its length. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.two?.three. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.0?.2 or two.3 or extra. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.7?.8. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.5?.six. Pterostigma length/width: three.1?.five. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: clearly outwards, inclined towards fore wing apex. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: distinctly but not strongly angled. Male. Mediotergite 2 tends to be less transverse, and mediotergite 1 is rather parallel-sided. Molecular information. Sequences in BOLD: 8, barcode compliant sequences: 8. Biology/ecology. Solitary. Hosts: Crambidae, Palpita venatalis, Pyralidae, Cromarcha stroudagnesia. Distribution. Costa Rica, ACG.Critique of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae)...Comments. This species was reared from Palpita venatalis inside of fallen Stemmadenia obovata (Apocynaceae) flowers, and from Cromarcha stroudagnesia mining in Tabebuia ochracea (Bignoniaceae) stems. No evidence suggests that the specimens are different species, as a result they're kept as a single right here.