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Masona popeye Quicke & Chaul 2019

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando 4110, Libra Dr. Rm 442, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
  • 2. The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK.
  • 3. Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.

Description

Masona popeye Quicke & Chaul, 2019

Figs 2A, 6A, 7–9

Masona popeye Quicke & Chaul in Quicke et al., 2019a: 588–592 (description, key, distribution, images).

Differential diagnosis

Masona popeye can be easily distinguished from all the other species of the genus by the following morphological features: (1) scutellum present (absent in M. infuscata, M. prognatha, M. similis and M. wow sp.nov.); (2) strong anterior flange of pronotum (absent in M. bulbofemoralis and M. neon sp. nov.); (3) bulbous propodeum (not bulbous in M. bulbofemoralis and M. neon sp. nov.); (4) dorsolateral carina on T1 present (absent in M. bulbofemoralis).

Original type series

Holotype (by original designation)

BRAZIL • ♀; Minas Gerais, Mata do Paraíso; 9 Nov. 2016; J. Chaul leg.; CELC.

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

BRAZIL: Mina Gerais (Quicke et al. 2019a) (Fig. 9).

Remarks

Known only from the holotype.

Notes

Published as part of Pos, Davide Dal, Broad, Gavin R. & Martens, Abigail P., 2024, Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus, pp. 135-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 925 (1) on pages 146-149, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.925.2457, http://zenodo.org/record/10805153

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CELC
Event date
2016-11-09
Verbatim event date
2016-11-09
Scientific name authorship
Quicke & Chaul
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Masona
Species
popeye
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Masona popeye Quicke, 2019 sec. Pos, Broad & Martens, 2024

References

  • Quicke D. L. J., Chaul J. C. M. & Butcher B. A. 2019 a. First South American record of the rare ichneumonoid subfamily Masoninae van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species from Brazil. Zootaxa 4664: 587 - 593. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4664.4.11