Pareucamptonyx townesi

Pareucamptonyx townesi (Olmi, 1984) Figs 1E, 7, 9E, 11 Gonatopus townesi Olmi, 1984: 1748. Female, holotype. Brazil: Mato Grosso, Sinop (EMUS, examined through photographs). Diagnosis Apterous, body length 2.0 mm in holotype and 3.5–3.9 mm in the additional material. Body predominantly black, except palpomeres, mandible and antenna testaceous; clypeus and part of face brown testaceous; lateral margin of pronotum testaceous; legs brown testaceous, except apical margin of procoxa, protrochanter and chela whitish; metasoma dark brown testaceous. Head glabrous, except dense and long pilosity on part of face, malar space and clypeus (Fig. 7B–C); legs and metasoma with sparse and short pilosity. Frontal line absent (Fig. 7C); antenna with rhinaria on flagellomeres 6–8 (Fig. 1E), occipital carina absent (Fig. 7C). Mesoscutum rugose, without lateral pointed apophyses (Figs 7D, 9E); propodeum with several transverse carinae (Fig. 7D). Enlarged claw with four bristles and 5 th protarsomere with inner margin with two rows of 10 lamellae and six long bristles (in holotype) or two rows of 14 lamellae (in additional material); distal apex with about 12 lamellae (in holotype) or about 38 lamellae (in additional material). Material examined Holotype BRAZIL – Mato Grosso • ♀; “ Sinop, M. Grosso\ 12°31ʹS 55° 37ʹW \ X.1974 Brazil\ M. Alvarenga ” “Holotype\ Gonatopus \ townesi Olmi ” “Type\ 1656”; EMUS. Additional material BRAZIL – Distrito Federal • ♀; “Brasil, DF, Brasília,\ Fazenda Água Limpa,\ 15.9592°S 47.9331°W,\ 19.i.2010, A. J. C. Aguiar,\ Armadilha Malaise ” (DZUB) • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding, except “2010” (DZUB). – Goiás • 1 ♀; “ Brasil, GO, Novo Mundo,\ Plantação de Algodão,\ 13.9292°S 49.9716°W,\ 23.vi. 2012, 282m, M.\ Paulo, Malaise ” (DZUB). – Paraná • 1 ♀; “ Brasil, PR, Foz do\ Jordão, Salta Segredo,\ 13-20.x.2004,\ E. D. G. Doares,\ Arm. Malaise ”; DZUP. Distribution Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Paraná states, Brazil (Fig. 11). Remarks Pareucamptonyx townesi resembles P. zulianus as the mesoscutum lacks lateral pointed apophyses (Fig. 4D–E). However, P. townesi differs in the absence of a frontal line and the inner margin of the 5 th protarsomere with 10–14 lamellae and six long bristles (Fig. 10B–C; Olmi & Virla 2014: fig. 215e).
Published as part of Martins, André L. & Domahovski, Alexandre C., 2022, Revision of the Neotropical species of Pareucamptonyx Olmi (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae) with descriptions of new species, pp. 152-176 in European Journal of Taxonomy 846 on page 167, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.846.1975, http://zenodo.org/record/7359135
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