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Acrotaphus pseudoamazonicus Padua & Saaksjarvi 2020

  • 1. Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad Católica del Maule, Avenida San Miguel, 3605, Talca, Chile.
  • 2. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2208 - 6349
  • 3. Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad Católica del Maule, Avenida San Miguel, 3605, Talca, Chile. & Laboratorio de Ecología de Abejas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Químicas, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Católica del Maule, Avenida San Miguel, 3605, Talca, Chile. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9438 - 3238
  • 4. Fundación Bioconservancy, Mesenia-Paramarillo Nature Reserve, Jardín, Antioquia, Colombia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4882 - 0414

Description

Acrotaphus pseudoamazonicus Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020

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Diagnosis. According to the New World review of Acrotaphus by Pádua et al. (2020), this species can be distinguished from all other species by the combination of the following characters: 1) body orange except head, posterolateral bands in the tergites II–IV, tergite V with distal half and VI+, hind leg black (in generally); 2) margin of gena behind eyes flat in dorsal view; 3) margin of gena 0.35–0.5× (0.5–0.6 in male) length of eye in dorsal view; 4) posterior ocelli separated from eyes by 0.3–0.5× its diameter in dorsal view; 5) ovipositor robust, 1.1–1.5× as long as hind tibia..

Distribution. Brazil; Colombia (Putumayo; Chocó; Antioquia *); Ecuador; French Guiana; Panama; Peru.

Material examined. COLOMBIA, Mcpio [=Municipio] Andes, Antioquia, Mesenia-Paramillo Nature Reserve, El Rodano, entomological net, N 5°29′54.5″, E 75°54′35.7″, 05.I.2020 (J. Jaramillo leg.), 1♀, UNIANDES.

Notes

Published as part of Pádua, Diego G., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Araujo, Rodrigo O. & Mazariegos, Luis A., 2023, Filling gaps in the knowledge of the Colombian Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): new records, description of unknown males, and taxonomical notes, pp. 61-70 in Zootaxa 5244 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7645791

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References

  • Padua, D. G., Saaksjarvi, I. E., Monteiro, R. F. & Oliveira, M. L. (2020) Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species. Zootaxa, 4719 (1), 1 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4719.1.1