Apanteles duvalierbricenoi

General description: 

Type locality. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Santa Rosa, Cafetal, 280m,
10.85827, -85.61089.
Holotype. ♀ in CNC. Specimen labels: 1. DHJPAR0005228. 2. COSTA RICA:
Guanacaste: Area de Conservación Guanacaste: Santa Rosa: Cafetal, 07/23/1992, gusaneros.
3. 92-SRNP-3782, Urbanus dorantes, Desmodium distortum. Paratypes. 6 ♀, 2 ♂ (BMNH, CNC, NMNH). COSTA RICA, ACG database
codes: 92-SRNP-3775, 92-SRNP-3792, 95-SRNP-20.
Description. Female. Metatibia color (outer face): with extended pale coloration
(light yellow to orange–yellow), ranging from 0.4 to almost entire metatibia length.
Fore wing veins color: veins C+Sc+R and R1 with brown coloration restricted narrowly
to borders, interior area of those veins and pterostigma (and sometimes veins r, 2RS
and 2M) transparent or white; other veins mostly transparent. Antenna length/body
length: antenna shorter than body (head to apex of metasoma), not extending beyond
anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.3–2.4 mm
or 2.5–2.6 mm. Fore wing length: 2.5–2.6 mm. Metafemur length/width: 3.0–3.1
or 3.2–3.3. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.7–2.8. Mediotergite
1 maximum width/width at posterior margin: 1.6–1.7. Ovipositor sheaths length/
metafemur length: 0.8 or 0.9. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibia length: 0.7 or 0.8.
Molecular data. Sequences in BOLD: 7, barcode compliant sequences: 0.
Biology/ecology. Gregarious. Host: Hesperiidae, Urbanus dorantes.
Distribution. Costa Rica, ACG.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith