Rhygoplitis choreuti

General description: 

Modified from the original description (Viereck, 1912), with notes added by Jose Fernandez-Triana [those notes are added between brackets within the information taken from the original description].

Female. Length 2.5 mm; related to Pseudapanteles eitellae Viereck, from which it differs in the yellowish scape; in the legs includingcoxae being stramineous, except for the hind tibiae, which are reddish and the hind tarsi which are brownish; in the brownish wings with darker, brownish stigma and veins, with the radius about half as long as the transverse cubitus; in the rather reticulately rugose propodeum; in the rugulose first dorsal plate which is apparently a little narrower at apex than at base, at least twice as long as wide at base, and apparently wider in the middle than at base or apex; second plate a little shorter down the middle than the first plate is wide at apex, nearly four times as wide at apex as long down the middle, rather spindle shaped, and longitudinally striate; third,dorsal segment dullish and brownish except for a yellowish spot on each side and a little longer than the second plate; first, second, and most of third ventral segments as well as the prominent hypopygium more or less stramineous. [Note: What Viereck called Pseudapanteles etiellae is now Iconella etiellae (Viereck); actually the resemblance between these two species is very superficial, I. etiellae having a smooth propodeum and completely different shape and scultpure of T1 and T2. The two species not only are in different genera, but are not even closely related].

Type-locality. — Anglesea, New Jersey.Type.— Cat. No. 14729, U.S.N.M.

The allotype agrees fairly well with the type except in the second plate which is about as long as the first is wide at apex, trapezoidal not spindle shaped and about three times as wide along its straight apical edge as long down the middle; in the apex of the firstplate being distinctly narrower than the base and in the hypopygium being dark brown to blackish while the rest of the venter is mostly stramineous.

Both specimens are labeled, "reared in July from Choerutis cardinella, W. D. Kearfoot, No. 60."

Modified from the original description (Viereck, 1912), with notes added by Jose Fernandez-Triana [those notes are added between brackets within the information taken from the original description].

Female. Length 2.5 mm; related to Pseudapanteles eitellae Viereck, from which it differs in the yellowish scape; in the legs includingcoxae being stramineous, except for the hind tibiae, which are reddish and the hind tarsi which are brownish; in the brownish wings with darker, brownish stigma and veins, with the radius about half as long as the transverse cubitus; in the rather reticulately rugose propodeum; in the rugulose first dorsal plate which is apparently a little narrower at apex than at base, at least twice as long as wide at base, and apparently wider in the middle than at base or apex; second plate a little shorter down the middle than the first plate is wide at apex, nearly four times as wide at apex as long down the middle, rather spindle shaped, and longitudinally striate; third,dorsal segment dullish and brownish except for a yellowish spot on each side and a little longer than the second plate; first, second, and most of third ventral segments as well as the prominent hypopygium more or less stramineous. [Note: What Viereck called Pseudapanteles etiellae is now Iconella etiellae (Viereck); actually the resemblance between these two species is very superficial, I. etiellae having a smooth propodeum and completely different shape and scultpure of T1 and T2. The two species not only are in different genera, but are not even closely related].

Type-locality. — Anglesea, New Jersey.Type.— Cat. No. 14729, U.S.N.M.

The allotype agrees fairly well with the type except in the second plate which is about as long as the first is wide at apex, trapezoidal not spindle shaped and about three times as wide along its straight apical edge as long down the middle; in the apex of the firstplate being distinctly narrower than the base and in the hypopygium being dark brown to blackish while the rest of the venter is mostly stramineous.

Both specimens are labeled, "reared in July from Choerutis cardinella, W. D. Kearfoot, No. 60."

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