Dolichogenidea tristanpalolai 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.15357745
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF69D4E4-47EE-5A37-9F47-A86D0C6CCD67
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Dolichogenidea tristanpalolai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Dolichogenidea tristanpalolai Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 143 A – E View Figure 143

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Santa Rosa, Area Administrativa ; 10.83764, -85.61871; 295 m; 25.xii.2008; D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs leg.; Malaise trap; Voucher code: DHJPAR 0031859 GoogleMaps . Paratypes. Costa Rica • 1 Female, 2 Males, CNC; DHJPAR 0012735 , DHJPAR 0024742 , DHJPAR 0031860 .

Diagnostic description.

T 1 strongly narrowing towards posterior margin, its length medially ~ 4.0–5.0 × its width at posterior margin and its width at anterior margin 2.0 × its width at posterior margin; T 2 smooth; pro- and mesocoxae mostly yellow to yellow-pale brown, metacoxa mostly brown; metafemur and metatibia yellow; humeral complex, all laterotergites, sternites and hypopygium brown to dark brown; body length: 1.76–1.80 mm; fore wing length: 1.90–2.08 mm. The color of humeral complex, coxae, and lateral and ventral areas of metasoma, as well as the shape of T 1 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: AAI 9740 (5 sequences, 4 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mr. Tristan Palola in recognition of his decade-plus of weathering the demands of being a major part of the Palola family with Mr. Eric Palola, as 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.