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

Femora colour (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, Hter coloured tibiae but are kept as part of this species. anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complicated color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: mainly white or entirely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at the very least 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?.8 mm. Fore wing journal.pone.0077579 length: 3.9?.0 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: two.0?.two. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.four?.six. Antennal flagellomerus two length/width: two.6?.eight. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4?.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0?.two. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine ike seta. Metafemur length/width: three.0?.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.four?.five. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by much less than 2.0 ?its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Quantity of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 11 or 12. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.eight or more. Propodeum areola: fully defined by carinae, which includes transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly 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 location 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, mostly close to posterior margin. Outer margin of hypopygium: fnins.2013.00251 having a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi?desclerotized location; normally with four or more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: about very same width all through its length. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.two?.3. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.0?.2 or two.3 or much more. 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?.5. 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 significantly 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 Ided by the authors. Form locality. COSTA RICA, Alajuela, ACG, Sector 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 distinct species, hence they're kept as one particular here.