Published July 8, 2005 | Version v1
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Prasmodon Nixon 1965

  • 1. Current Address: Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA; avalerio @ life. uiuc. edu, jrodriguez @ life. uiuc. edu, jwhitfie @ life. uiuc. edu. & Central American Institute of Biological Research and Conservation (CIBRC). P. O. Box 2398 - 2050 San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica; avalerio @ hotmail. com
  • 2. Current Address: Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA; avalerio @ life. uiuc. edu, jrodriguez @ life. uiuc. edu, jwhitfie @ life. uiuc. edu.
  • 3. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; djanzen @ sas. upenn. edu

Description

Key to the described Neotropical species of Prasmodon Nixon

1. Mesonotum mainly yellow but with anterior­medial area as well as lateral areas dark brown (Fig. 1A); hind tarsal claws with pectination (teeth) very irregular in spacing and length (Fig. 2C); metasomal terga 3 to 8 yellow with medio­longitudinal area dark brown and first metasomal tergum whitish yellow (Fig.1F).......................................... ............................................................................ P. zlotnicki Valerio & Rodriguez n. sp.

­ Mesonotum and metasomal terga totally yellow (Figs. 1D, 1G); hind tarsal claw pectination uniform with teeth thick and relatively evenly spaced (Fig. 2D)......................... ............................................................................................................. P. eminens Nixon

Notes

Published as part of Valerio, Alejandro A., Rodriguez, Josephine J., Whitfield, James B. & Janzen, Daniel H., 2005, Prasmodon zlotnicki, a new Neotropical species of the genus Prasmodon Nixon (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Costa Rica, with the first host records for the genus, pp. 29-38 in Zootaxa 1016 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1016.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5049304

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Biodiversity

Family
Braconidae
Genus
Prasmodon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Nixon
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Prasmodon Nixon, 1965 sec. Valerio, Rodriguez, Whitfield & Janzen, 2005