Dolichogenidea pedroleoni Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2025

Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., Boudreault, Caroline, Whitfield, James B., Höcherl, Amelie, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnifred & Janzen, Daniel H., 2025, A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Neotropical region, with the description of 102 new species, ZooKeys 1237, pp. 1-250 : 1-250

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1237.141007
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F77FA5A7-28CC-44B4-9428-D799119E4A18
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15357657
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3DC4664A-9A2A-5991-8D03-DEE23E1EFEDF
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Dolichogenidea pedroleoni Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Dolichogenidea pedroleoni Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Figs 106 A – F View Figure 106 , 160 A View Figure 160

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Alajuela, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector San Cristobal, Bosque Trampa Malaise ; 10.8628, -85.3846; 815 m; 16.vi.2007; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0025998 GoogleMaps . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 11 Females, CNC; DHJPAR 0012760 , DHJPAR 0004286 , CNC 5302042 View Materials , CNC 5302043 View Materials (there are more specimens in gel capsule attached to pin), CNC 5302044 View Materials , CNC 5302045 View Materials (there are more specimens in gel capsule attached to pin), CNC 5302046 View Materials , CNC 5302047 View Materials (there are more specimens in gel capsule attached to pin), CNC 5302048 View Materials (there are more specimens in gel capsule attached to pin), CNC 5302049 View Materials , CNC 5302050 View Materials .

Diagnostic description.

Scutellar disc smooth; anterior half of mesopleuron smooth; anteromesoscutum with sparse and relatively shallow punctures; propodeum areola comparatively broad (its height ~ 1.2 × its central width) and open anteriorly; T 1 and T 2 heavily sculptured with strong longitudinal striae; T 1 comparatively thin and mostly parallel-sided; T 2, comparatively more transverse, its width at posterior margin 3.1 × its central length; ovipositor sheath 1.1–1.2 × metatibia length; ovipositor comparatively thicker, at least as thick as 0.8 × flagellomeres width; tegula white-yellow, humeral complex mostly brown; pterostigma mostly pale brown with small, paler spot anteriorly; metacoxa entirely dark brown; metatibia mostly yellow, only posterior 0.2 or less dark brown; body length: 2.94–3.19 mm; fore wing length: 2.97–3.13 mm; BIN BOLD: AAB 4946 , which is 2.08 % different from the nearest BIN in BOLD as of March 2022. The coloration pattern, shape of T 2, ovipositor length and width, and body size are distinctive among species with T 1 and T 2 heavily sculptured and T 1 comparatively thin.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

Gregarious. Reared from a single species of Mimallonidae , Eadmuna Janzen 01.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAB 4946 (29 sequences, 28 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Dr. Pedro Leon of San Jose, Costa Rica and of the Universidad de Costa Rica in honor of his decades of support for Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica and for non-damaging biodevelopment of wild Costa Rican biodiversity.