Peristenus otaniae Goulet & Mason 2006, n. sp.
Peristenus otaniae n. sp. (Figs. 18, 39, Table 13) Type material. Type locality: Canada, Alberta, Mountain Trail near Beaverlodge. Holotype, female (CNCI), labelled: [White] " CANADA, AB Beaverlodge, Mountain Trail 12.VIII.1999, emg. late VII.2000, J. Otani "; [White] "EX: Lygus spp....
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/5073165 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5073165 |
| Summary: | Peristenus otaniae n. sp. (Figs. 18, 39, Table 13) Type material. Type locality: Canada, Alberta, Mountain Trail near Beaverlodge. Holotype, female (CNCI), labelled: [White] " CANADA, AB Beaverlodge, Mountain Trail 12.VIII.1999, emg. late VII.2000, J. Otani "; [White] "EX: Lygus spp. Det: J. Otani, 2000"; [Red] " HOLOTYPE Peristenus otaniae Goulet CNC No. 23477". Condition of holotype: perfect. Allotype male labelled as holotype. Paratypes: all specimens mentioned under "Material examined and range". Origin of species name. This species is named in honour of Jennifer Otani who reared P. otaniae as well as other interesting species of Peristenus and Leiophron in northern Alberta. Diagnosis. Clypeus reddish brown, range within boreal regions of North America, females generally with fewer than three subquadrate preapical flagellomeres and in both sexes generally with few punctures below median ocellus. Description. FEMALE. Colour. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma usually brown, rarely black or reddish brown. Legs generally straw coloured, metacoxa occasionally light reddish brown and exceptionally reddish brown on dorsal surface. Base of metatibia usually straw coloured or light reddish brown. Apex of metatibia and metatarsomere 1 clearly darker than basal 0.5 of metatibia. Metatarsomeres 2–5 less dark than metatarsomere 1. Palpi, tegula and mandible (except apex) straw coloured. Scape to flagellomere 2 straw coloured, then gradually darkening to reddish brown in middle to brown or dark brown in apical 0.3. Stigma dark brown and straw coloured in basal third. Structure. Flagellum with 18–20 flagellomeres (respectively 13%, 65% and 22% of 148 specimens) and flagellomeres enlarged in apical half. Few of the preapical flagellomeres subquadrate (none 35%, one 43%, two 19% and more 3%). Length of gena behind eye 0.80–1.09 times as long as length of eye. Height of eye 1.34–1.46 times as long as minimum distance between inner eye margins (Fig. 18). Maximum width of head behind eyes subequal (0.92–0.97) to maximum head ... |
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