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

Body in lateral view: not R than body (head to apex of metasoma), not extending beyond distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Costa Rica, ACG.Evaluation 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 proof suggests that the specimens are distinctive species, thus they may be kept as one right here. Based on morphology alone, Apanteles esthercentenoae is extremely related to Apanteles thurberiae (see comments below that species). Etym.Dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, dark. Tibiae colour (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, anteriorly pale/posteriorly dark. Tegula and humeral complex colour: tegula pale, humeral complicated half pale/half dark. Pterostigma colour: largely pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins colour: mostly white or completely transparent. Antenna length/body length: antenna about so long as physique (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. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.five?.six mm or three.7?.eight mm. Fore wing journal.pone.0077579 length: 3.9?.0 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.0?.2. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.four?.six. Antennal flagellomerus two length/width: two.six?.8. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4?.six. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: two.0?.2. Tarsal claws: with single basal spine ike seta. Metafemur length/width: 3.0?.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.four?.five. Anteromesoscutum: mainly with shallow, dense punctures (separated by much 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: 0.8 or additional. Propodeum areola: entirely defined by carinae, like 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: largely 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: three.6?.9. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: with some sculpture, largely near posterior margin. Outer margin of hypopygium: fnins.2013.00251 with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi?desclerotized location; generally with four or much more pleats. Ovipositor thickness: about very same width all through its length. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 1.two?.three. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 2.0?.two 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?.6. Pterostigma length/width: 3.1?.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 two tends to be less transverse, and mediotergite 1 is rather parallel-sided. Molecular data. Sequences in BOLD: eight, barcode compliant sequences: 8. Biology/ecology. Solitary.