Ateleute grossa, KASPARYAN & HERNANDEZ, 2001

Santos, Bernardo F., Alvarado, Mabel, Sääksjärvi, Ilari E., Noort, Simon Van, Villemant, Claire & Brady, Seán G., 2018, Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread parasitoid wasp lineage, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185, pp. 1057-1078 : 1073

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ATELEUTE GROSSA KASPARYAN & HERNANDEZ, 2001 View in CoL

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Ateleute grossa Kasparyan & Hernandez, 2001: 229 View in CoL . Holotype ♀ from Mexico, not examined.

Comments Ateleute grossa is very similar to the new species A. boitata , which occurs in South America.The two species have several slight differences in colour patterns, biometric ratios (see below) and sculpturing; most distinctly, A. grossa can be differentiated from A. boitata sp. nov. by the generally pale yellow tone of the mesosoma (vs. ferruginous); propodeum with ovoid blackish marks on anterior portion (vs. entirely ferruginous); and propodeum finely reticulate (vs. with coarse wrinkles).

The holotype was the only specimen examined by Kasparyan & Hernandez (2001), and no additional specimens were recorded in later accounts of the Mexican fauna (e.g. Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2005). Herein we newly record the species from Costa Rica. The following morphometric measurements, based on the specimens examined for this work (N = 8 females), are original information that complements the original description: fore wing 5.7–9.5 mm long; MLW 1.5; MWW 0.7; MSM 1.0; APH 1.4–1.5; AWW 1.8–1.9; H1WC 1.6–1.8; T1LW 2.2–2.4; T1WW 3.0–3.2; spiracle of T1 placed on anterior 0.4; T2LW 0.9; T2WW 1.3; OST 0.85. The original description recorded MSM 0.85 and OST 0.75 for the holotype, which may correspond to geographical variation between populations in Mexico and Costa Rica. Other than that, the examined specimens accurately match the holotype description.

Biology All the females examined for this work were reared from Psychidae ; five of them are recorded as parasitoids of Oiketicus kirbyi , a common pest of several crops in South and Central America, including banana, cocoa, oil palm, avocado, citrus and eucalyptus ( Rhainds & La Rosa, 2010).

Material examined 8 ♀♀. 1 ♀ from COSTA RICA, Palmar , 19 Aug 1959, J. O. Harrison, ‘from bag worm’ ( USNM) . 2 ♀♀, same data except 20 Oct 1959, C. S. Stephens, ‘ Psichidae parasite’ . 5 ♀♀, same data except 15 Jan 1960, ex. Oiketicus kirbyi (USNM) .

Distribution Mexico and Costa Rica.