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2M: 1.7?.8. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.5?.6. Pterostigma length/width: 2.6?.0. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: clearly beyond 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. Esentially like female (Muesebeck 1958). Molecular data. No molecular data available for this species. Biology/ecology. Solitary, white cocoon about 6-7 mm long. Host: Crambidae, Megastes sp. Distribution. Trinidad and Tobago. There is no suggestion that this species occurs in ACG. Comments. This species is only known from the specimens studied by Muesebeck (1958) when describing the species.Jose L. Fernandez-Triana et al. / ZooKeys 383: 1?65 (2014)Apanteles megathymi Riley, 1881 http://species-id.net/wiki/Apanteles_megathymi Fig. 147 Apanteles megathymi Riley, 1881: 304. Type locality. UNITED STATES: “South Carolina”, locality not specified. Holotype. A series of 7 male specimens considered as cotypes, NMNH (examined). Material Examined. 2 , 2 (CNC). UNITED STATES: CA, San Diego, San Felipe Valley, ix-1938, W. P. Medlar, ex Agathymus stephensi. Description. Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, mostly dark but centrally pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: partially pigmented (a few veins may be dark but most are pale). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.5?.6 mm. Fore wing length: 3.7?.8 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4?.6. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7?.9. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.6?.8. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/ width: 2.0?.2. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.7?.9. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 3.2?.3. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4?.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 ?its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: with a few JWH-133 site sparse punctures. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.6?.7. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.3?.5 or 2.6?.8. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less parallel ided. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly LLY-507 site sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.8?.1. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, s.2M: 1.7?.8. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.5?.6. Pterostigma length/width: 2.6?.0. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: clearly beyond 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. Esentially like female (Muesebeck 1958). Molecular data. No molecular data available for this species. Biology/ecology. Solitary, white cocoon about 6-7 mm long. Host: Crambidae, Megastes sp. Distribution. Trinidad and Tobago. There is no suggestion that this species occurs in ACG. Comments. This species is only known from the specimens studied by Muesebeck (1958) when describing the species.Jose L. Fernandez-Triana et al. / ZooKeys 383: 1?65 (2014)Apanteles megathymi Riley, 1881 http://species-id.net/wiki/Apanteles_megathymi Fig. 147 Apanteles megathymi Riley, 1881: 304. Type locality. UNITED STATES: “South Carolina”, locality not specified. Holotype. A series of 7 male specimens considered as cotypes, NMNH (examined). Material Examined. 2 , 2 (CNC). UNITED STATES: CA, San Diego, San Felipe Valley, ix-1938, W. P. Medlar, ex Agathymus stephensi. Description. Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum dark. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): dark, dark, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, anteriorly dark/posteriorly pale, mostly dark but centrally pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, mostly pale but with posterior 0.2 or less dark. Tegula and humeral complex color: tegula pale, humeral complex half pale/half dark. Pterostigma color: mostly pale and/or transparent, with thin dark borders. Fore wing veins color: partially pigmented (a few veins may be dark but most are pale). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso entrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 3.5?.6 mm. Fore wing length: 3.7?.8 mm. Ocular cellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4?.6. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.7?.9. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.6?.8. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/ width: 2.0?.2. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 1.7?.9. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 3.2?.3. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4?.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with deep, dense punctures (separated by less than 2.0 ?its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: with a few sparse punctures. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 7 or 8. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.6?.7. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly sculptured. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 2.3?.5 or 2.6?.8. Mediotergite 1 shape: more or less parallel ided. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly sculptured, excavated area centrally with transverse striation inside and/or a polished knob centrally on posterior margin of mediotergite. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.8?.1. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, s.

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