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Stethantyx amazonica Khalaim & Saaksjarvi 2013

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Stethantyx amazonica Khalaim & Sääksjärvi, 2013

Morphological remarks. Flagellum with median pale band weak and hardly discernible to rather conspicuous, dirty white. Notaulus completely absent or represented by a weak wrinkle. Two females from Ecuador and Peru have ovipositor sheath as long as first tergite. Female from Brazil has flagellum with 22 flagellomeres and ovipositor sheath 1.65× as long as first tergite. All examined specimens have propleuron and anterior margin of pronotum whitish, and hind leg with coxa and both trochanters yellow, and femur, tibia and tarsus strongly darkened.

Material examined. Brazil, Paraná: 1 # (AEIC) Campina Grande, near Curtiba, 21.II.1966, coll. H. & M. Townes. Ecuador, Orellana: 1 ♀ (AEIC) Coca [Puerto Francisco de Orellana], V.1965, coll. Luis Peña. 1 ♀ (AEIC) Coca & Napo Rivers, 1–12.V.1965, coll. Luis Peña. Peru, Cusco: 1 ♀ (AEIC) Quincemil, near Marcapata, 750 m, 10–15.XI.1962, coll. Luis Peña. Trinidad and Tobago: 1 ♀ (AEIC) Morne Bleu, 2700 ft. (= 825 m), 6.VIII.1969, coll. H. & A. Howden.

Distribution. Brazil (south), Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago. First record from Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E. & Bordera, Santiago, 2015, Tersilochinae of Western Amazonia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Genus Stethantyx Townes, part 2, pp. 95-106 in Zootaxa 3981 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/244938

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  • Khalaim, A. I., Saaksjarvi, I. E. & Bordera, S. (2013) Tersilochinae of Western Amazonia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Genus Stethantyx Townes, part 1. Zootaxa, 3741 (3), 301 - 326. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3741.3.1