Dolichogenidea ericpalolai 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.15357531
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BAA37BA7-6DC4-5E53-9772-35D5FA4F6E6F
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Dolichogenidea ericpalolai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Dolichogenidea ericpalolai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 48 A – G View Figure 48

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Alajuela, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector San Cristobal, Rio Blanco Abajo ; 10.9004, -85.3725; 500 m; 3.viii.2007; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0026313 GoogleMaps . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 1 Female, 1 Male, CNC; DHJPAR 0025187 , DHJPAR 0025511 .

Diagnostic description.

Anteromesoscutum with coarse, deep and dense punctures (separation between punctures less than individual puncture diameter); face, propleuron, pronotum, most of mesopleuron, scutellar disc, and most of outer side of metacoxa mostly to entirely covered by relatively coarse punctures; T 2 smooth; pro- and mesocoxae yellow; metacoxa entirely to almost entirely dark brown; posterior 0.1–0.2 of T 1 (centrally) and entire T 2 yellow to pale brown-yellow; T 3 + pale brown; body length: 2.84–3.16 mm; fore wing length: 2.81–2.88 mm. The coloration of T 1 – T 3 as well as many areas on head and mesosoma with coarse punctures distinguish this species among all with smooth T 2 and pale pro- and mesocoxae.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAF 7717 (3 sequences, 3 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mr. Eric Palola in recognition of his decade-plus of weathering the demands of being the two-country Executive Director of the NGO Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund and its integration with the Costa Rican government’s Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica.