Dolichogenidea moniquegilbertae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2025

Dolichogenidea moniquegilbertae Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

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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 0031740 GoogleMaps .

Other material.

Mexico • Female, UNAM; BIOUG 14382 - G 05.

Diagnostic description.

Pterostigma comparatively elongate, its length> 3.0 × its maximum height; T 1 strongly sculptured on posterior 0.5; T 2 almost entirely sculptured; T 2 very transverse, its width at posterior margin 4.0 × its central length; ovipositor straight; pterostigma with pale spot 0.2–0.3 pterostigma length; most veins transparent to yellow white; all trochantelli dark brown, anterior 0.3–0.4 of profemur and entire mesofemur brown; all coxae, metafemur and most of metatibia (except for anterior 0.2 which is yellow) dark brown to black; body length: 2.58 mm; fore wing length: 2.45 mm. This species could be difficult to key out, especially on couplet 10 where the interpretation of T 2 sculpture could lead to different alternatives. While D. moniquegilbertae has T 2 almost entirely sculptured (in that sense it would appear to run through the first half of couplet 9), its shape is very different from all other species with entirely and strongly sculptured T 2, as D. moniquegilbertae has T 2 very transverse (width at posterior margin 4.0 × its central length). That character, as well as color of legs, wing veins, and shape and color of pterostigma separate the species from similar ones.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, Mexico.

Biology.

No host data available.

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAX 8653 (11 sequences, 11 barcode compliant).

Etymology.

Named in honor of Mrs. Monique Gilbert of Vermont, USA, in recognition of her decade-plus of weathering the demands of being the two-country Development Officer for 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.

Notes.

The record from Mexico is based on one sequence in BOLD which matches by 99.33–99.81 % (1–4 bp of difference) with the ACG sequences. Because we could not study that specimen (other than examining a photo available in BOLD, which also matches well with the ACG specimen) it is not included as a paratype.