Monitoriella elongata Hedqvist 1963

Monitoriella elongata Hedqvist, 1963 Material examined. �� (DCBU): P. E. Serra do Mar, N��cleo Picinguaba, at Ubatuba municipality, in S��o Paulo State, Brazil, 21.I. 2002. Sweeping. New record. Comments. Previously know only from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The location of the holotype and two paratypes, intercepted at a port in Texas, USA, is unknown (Hedqvist 1963; Infante et al. 1995). This is the only known species of the genera with a complete occipital carina. Other diagnostic characters are the presence of a deep and wide midventral groove on mesothorax, a very long ovipositor, about twice as long as body length, and the extensive dark brown body color.
Published as part of Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio, Penteado-Dias, Ang��lica Maria & Nunes, Juliano Fiorelini, 2011, Monitoriella Hedqvist (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazil, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 28-38 in Zootaxa 2921 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277925
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