This species runs to Notiospathius platycorsus Marsh in Marsh´s (2002) key to Costa Rican species and its Zaldívar-Riverón and De Jesús-Bonilla’s (2010, 2011) extension; however it differs from the latter species by having the propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black (mesosoma dark brown, metasoma honey yellow or light brown in Notiospathius platycorsus); and frons striate (rugose to rugose-costate in Notiospathius platycorsus).

Female. Colour: Head light brown; scape light brown to honey yellow; flagellomeres brown turning dark brown, the last 10 white; palpi pale yellow to white. Mesonotum brown; propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black; second and third metasomal tergites brown; remaining metasomal tergites dark brown except two last metasomal tergite, which are honey yellow; ovipositor and sheaths brown. Fore and middle coxae, trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femora and tibiae light brown; tarsi dark brown; hind coxa black; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femur, tibia and tarsi ligth brown to brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma brown; tegula pale yellow. Body length: 3.2 mm (lateral view); ovipositor 1.5 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate, temple and gena smooth; eye about 1.6 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.1 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.4 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance four times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma two times its maximum height; pronotum rugose, lateral area of pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and scrobiculate; propleuron slightly striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli wide and scrobiculate, meeting in scutellum in a costate area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both wide, deep and scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculated, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum strongly rugose; apical lateral corners without distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 4.4 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.3 times its maximum width; vein r 0.4 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a interstitial to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.3 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa rugose, without basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora smooth. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite rugose, length five times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite mostly smooth, only indistinctly costate near basal suture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites indistinct; third metasomal tergite and remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 0.9 times length of metasoma.

Male. Smaller than female; body length 3 mm; head brown, orbit surrounding eyes yellow; antenna with 23 flagellomeres; second and third metasomal tergites light brown.

Female (IB-UNAM CNIN). Venezuela, Aragua, Henri Pittier National Park, 10.37428, -67.59279, 1070m, montane cloud forest/riparian, H. Clebsch, 7–11.x.08. DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC207-11, GenBank accession no. JN266962.

One specimen, male (DCBU). Same data as holotype, DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC210-11; GenBank accession no. JN266965.

Unknown.

The name of this species refers to the Venezuelan state where both type specimens were collected.

This new species is morphologically similar to Notiospathius janzeni Marsh; however, it differs from the latter species by having a basoventral tubercle in the hind coxa (absent in Notiospathius janzeni) and mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous ventrally (porcate-rugose dorsally, weakly coriaceous to smooth ventrally in Notiospathius janzeni). Notiospathius bolivari is genetically similar to two species described below, Notiospathius larensis sp. n. and Notiospathius danteisp. n., though it differs from them by having the third metasomal tergite finely striate; and fourth and fifth metasomal tergites finely granulose (third, fourth and remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished in Notiospathius dantei sp. n.and Notiospathius larensis sp. n.).

Female. Colour: Head brown; orbit surrounding eye honey yellow; pedicel and scape honey yellow; flagellomeres brown, apical 9 white (one antenna broken); palpi white. Mesonotum brown, venter of mesopleuron and propodeum black; first metasomal tergite black turning brown apically; second metasomal tergite dark brown with two sublateral light brown stripes; third metasomal tergite dark brown; fourth and fifth metasomal tergites dark brown with a semicircular basal area light brown; remaining metasomal tergites dark brown; ovipositor brown, apex strongly sclerotised; sheaths brown, turning dark brown to apex. Fore and middle coxae, trochanter and trochantellus white; femora brown on basal edge, remaining area white with a longitudinal dark brown stripe; tibiae dark brown dorsally, white ventrally; tarsi light brown; hind coxa brown dorsally, dark brown to black ventrally, apical edge white; trochanter and trochantellus white, femur brown on basal edge, basal third white, apical two thirds dark brown with a white irregular area medially; tibia dark brown dorsally, white ventrally; tarsi dark brown. Wings dusky; veins dark brown; stigma dark brown to black, white laterally; tegula honey yellow. Body length: 4.2 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 3 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate-rugose; temple slightly striate; gena smooth; eye 0.8 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.5 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.25 times eye width (dorsal view); ocular-ocellar distance 4 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape 2 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 29 flagellomeres (one antenna broken). Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.8 times its maximum height; pronotum slightly striate-rugose; pronotal groove wide and scrobiculate; propleuron slightly striate; median mesoscutal lobe striate rugose; lateral mesoscutal lobes striate-rugose, coriaceous medially; notauli wide, deep and scrobiculate, not joining and obscured at middle of mesoscutum in a longitudinally striate-rugose area; scutellar disc coriaceous; subalar and mesopleural sulcus continuous, joining at middle of mesopleuron, the first one wide, deep and scrobiculate, the second one narrow, deep and slightly scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, anterior half shallow and slightly scrobiculated, posterior half deep and scrobiculate, 0.85 as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; metapleuron rugose- areolate, slightly coriaceous anteriorly; propodeum rugose-areolate; apical lateral corners without tubercles; spines over hind coxa absent. Wings: Fore wing length 3.3 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.2 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu distinctly antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU 0.7 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa striate dorsally, coriaceous ventrally, with a distinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite costate with carinate microsculpture, with lateral spine-like projections at basal third of tergite; length 1.6 times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.6 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite striate with carinate microsculpture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite finely striate; fourth and fifth metasomal tergites finely granulose, remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.3 times length of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Northwest Venezuela, state of Aragua.

Female (IB-UNAM CNIN). Venezuela, Aragua, Henri Pittier National Park, 10.37428, -67.59279, 11-12.ix.07 YPT/78 plates, 1070m Montane cloud forest/riparian, H. Clebsch, DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC212-11, GenBank accession no. JN266967.

Unknown.

This species is named in honour to Simón Bolívar, the South American military and political leader who led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to independence.

Notiospathius curvilineatus sp. n. is distinguished from the remaining described species of the genus by having a combination of the mesopleuron diagonally costate from postero-median to medio-ventral region medially and ventrally, and the first three metasomal tergites sculptured. This species runs to Notiospathius janzeni in Marsh’s (2002) key to Costa Rican species and its Zaldívar-Riverón and De Jesús-Bonilla’s (2010, 2011) extension; however it differs by having the mesososma and first metasomal tergite reddish brown to brown (mesosoma and first metasomal tergite dark brown to black in Notiospathius janzeni); hind coxa pale yellow, brown apically (hind coxa dark brown or black in Notiospathius janzeni); and frons striate (frons rugose in Notiospathius janzeni).

Female. Colour: Head brown to reddish brown; scape pale yellow with a brown longitudinal stripe laterally; flagellomeres dark brown turning black to apex, apical 9 white; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite reddish brown to brown; second metasomal tergite dark brown, yellow basolaterally; third metasomal tergite yellow, dark brown apically;remaining metasomal tergites brown except the last one which is yellow; ovipositor and sheaths brown to reddish brown. Fore and middle coxae, trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femora pale yellow with a median and an apical dark brown transverse bands dorsally; tibiae pale yellow basally, light brown medially and apically, with a dark brown transverse band dorso-basally; tarsi light brown to brown; hind coxa pale yellow, brown apically; trochanter and trochantellus honey yellow; femur pale yellow on basal third, apical two thirds dark brown; tibia pale yellow basally, light brown medially and apically, with a dark brown transverse band dorso-basally; tarsi brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma dark brown; tegula yellow. Body length: 5.8 mm (lateral view); ovipositor 6.8 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face straite; frons striate; vertex striate; temple and gena smooth; eye 1.5 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.4 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 2.6 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape 1.4 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 35 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum longitudinally costate-coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and slightly scrobiculate; propleuron slightly striate; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, transversally costate along notauli and edges; median mesocutal lobe transversally costate-rugose; notauli wide, deep and scrobiculate, meeting just before scutellum in a longitudinally costate-rugose area; scutellar disc smooth; mesopleural and subalar sulcus discontinuous, the first one deep and scrobiculate and the second one wide, deep and including the striate sculpture of mesopleuron; mesopleuron porcate-slightly coriaceous dorsally, slightly curved, diagonally costate from postero-median to medio-ventral region medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and including the striate sculpture of mesopleuron, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma smooth and polished; metapleuron costate ventrally, rugose-aerolate dorsally, slightly coriaceous on anterior first third; propodeum rugose; apical lateral corners without distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 4.3 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 2.8 times its maximum width; vein r 0.2 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.4 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa striate, indistinct tubercule at the base; middle and hind femora slightly coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly costate with rugose microsculpture, length 3.1 times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.6 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite costate with rugose microsculpture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite coriaceous on basal half, smooth on apical half; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.8 times length of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Females: Body length: close to 5.8 mm; ovipositor about 5.8–6.8. Head: Eye 1.4–1.5 times higher than wide (lateral view); scutellar disc slightly coriaceous to smooth. Wings: Fore wing length 4.1–4.3 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 2.8–3.7 times its maximum width. Metasoma: length of first metasomal tergite 3.1–3.7 times its apical width (dorsal view); ovipositor about 1.6–1.8 times length of metasoma.

Female (UCOB). Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, sector Cañaote #3, 10°11.83'N, 69°26.13'W, 929 m, 15–19.vii.08, DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC235-11, GenBank accession no. JN266985.

One female (DCBU). Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, La Cimara # 3, 7–10.x.2008, 10°12.656N, 69°25.339W, YPT, R. Briceño col., DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC234-11, GenBank accession no. JN266984.

Unknown.

The name of this species refers to the curved, diagonally costate sculpture on the median and ventral areas of mesopleuron.

This new species is morphologically and genetically similar to one of the species described below, Notiospathius larensis sp. n., though it differs from the latter species by having the mesonotum reddish brown (brown to dark brown in Notiospathius larensis sp. n.); first metasomal tergite reddish brown at extreme base, black medially, turning reddish brown to apex (completely black in Notiospathius larensis sp. n.); and mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, joining at middle of mesopleuron (not joining in Notiospathius larensis sp. n.). Notiospathius dantei differs from the remaining described species of the genus with basoventral tubercle on hind coxa by having the following combination of features: first two metasomal tergites sculptured, remaining ones smooth; apical 10 flagellomeres lighter than remaining ones; mesopleuron porcate-sligthly coriacoeus dorsally and medially, coriaceous ventrally; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally; median mesoscutal lobes coriaceous anteromedially.

Female. Colour: Head dark brown; area near mandible and orbit surrounding eye honey-yellow; pedicel honey yellow, brown dorsally; flagellomeres brown, turning light brown to apex, apical 10 white (one antenna broken); palpi white. Mesonotum reddish brown to dark brown, first metasomal tergite reddish brown at extreme base, black medially and turning reddish brown to apex; second metasomal tergite dark brown with a semicircular basal area light brown; third and fourth metasomal tergites light brown basally and medially, dark brown apically; remaining metasomal tergites dark brown; ovipositor and sheaths reddish brown, ovipositor apex strongly sclerotized, black. Fore and middle coxae, trochanter and trochantellus white, femora brown at the base, following by white and turning brown to light brown to apex, tibiae and tarsi light brown; hind coxa light brown to brown, trochanter and trochantellus white, femur white at basal third, apical two thirds brown, tibia and tarsi brown. Wings dusky; veins dark brown; stigma pale yellow at extreme base, remaining area dark brown; tegula honey-yellow. Body length: 4.1 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 3.7 mm. Head: Clypeus striate-rugose; face straite; frons striate-rugose; vertex striate-slightly rugose; temple slightly striate; gena smooth; eye 1.4 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.4 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.5 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 6 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape less than 1.2 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 29 flagellomeres (one antenna broken). Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum striate; pronotal groove wide and scrobiculate; propleuron laterally striate, remaining area slightly coriaceous; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally; median mesoscutal lobes coriaceous anteromedially, remaining area transversally striate-rugose; notauli wide, deep and scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring at middle of mesoscutum in a longitudinally striate-rugose area; scutellar disc slightly coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, joining at middle of mesopleuron, the first one deep, narrow and scrobiculate, the second one wide, deep and including the porcate sculpture of mesopleuron; mesopleuron porcate-sligthly coriacoeus dorsally and medially, coriaceous ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron longitudinally costate with rugose microsculpture; propodeum longitudinally costate-rugose; apical lateral corners with tubercles; spines over hind coxa absent. Wings: Fore wing length 4.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.2 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu distinctly antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a slightly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU 0.4 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa striate, with an almost indistinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora slightly coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite costate with rugose microsculpture; length 2.3 times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second tergite striate with rugose microsculpture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and slightly sinuate; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.7 times length of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Northwest Venezuela, state of Yaracuy.

Female (IB-UNAM CNIN). Venezuela, Yaracuy, Est. Biol. Guáquira, 10°17.84'N, 68°39.32'W, 107 m, sweep, selva trop., DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC278-11, GenBank accession no. JN267024.

Unknown.

This species is named in honour of the first author’s father.

This species is similar to Notiospathius shawi Marsh, though it can be distinguished from the latter species by having the mesopleuron coriaceous-slightly rugose dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally (costate dorsally and coriaceous ventrally in Notiospathius shawi), and notauli obscuring before scutellum in a large porcate-rugose area (meeting before scutellum in a narrow rugose area in Notiospathius shawi).

Female. Colour: Head light brown to honey yellow; scape honey yellow; flagellomeres honey yellow turning dark brown to apex; palpi pale yellow. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite black, pronotum light brown on half basal half, black on apical half; second metasomal tergite dark brown; third metasomal tergite and remaining metasomal tergites brown to dark brown; last one pale yellow; ovipositor brown; sheaths honey yellow. Fore and middle coxae light brown to honey yellow; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femora brown; tibiae pale yellow basally, honey yellow medially and apically; tarsi honey yellow; hind coxa black; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; femur dark brown; tibia pale yellow basally turning light to apex; tarsi light brown. Wings dusky, veins and stigma dark brown, tegula dark brown to black. Body length: 4.4 mm (lateral view); ovipositor 3.8 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate; temple and gena smooth; eye about 0.9 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.6 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 29 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove narrow and slightly scrobiculate; propleuron slightly striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli wide and scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring in a large porcate-rugose area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both deep and scrobiculate; mesopleuron coriaceous-slightly rugose dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum strongly rugose with coriaceous microsculpture; apical lateral corners without distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 4.3 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.6 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu intersticial to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.5 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa coriaceous, with a distinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora smooth. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly costate with rugose microsculpture, length twice its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.5 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite costate with rugose microsculpture; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite costate on basal half, smooth on apical half; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.8 times length of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Females: Colour: head dark brown; orbit surrounding eyes yellow. Body length: 4.4–5.4 mm (lateral view); ovipositor 3.6–4.2 mm. Head: Eye 0.9–1.3 times higher than wide (lateral view). Wings: Fore wing length 4.2–4.6 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 2.8–3.6 times its maximum width. Metasoma: length of first metasomal tergite 1.3–2.0 times its apical width (dorsal view); ovipositor 1.5–1.8 times length of metasoma.

Female (UCOB). Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, sector Batatal # 4, 10°09.15'N, 69°30.205'W, 809 m, 7–11.x.08, DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC286-11; GenBank accession no. JN267031.

Three females (IB-UNAM CNIN). Same data as holotype, DNA voucher nos (BOLD system) DORYC285-11, DORYC 287-11, IB-CNIN569, GenBank accession nos JN267030, JN267032, JN870425.

Unknown.

We named this species in honour to the first author’s mother, Margarita Estrada.

This species is morphologically similar to Notiospathius dantei, but they differ by the morphological features mentioned in the diagnosis of the latter species. Notiospathius larensisdiffers from the remaining species of the genus with basoventral tubercle on the hind coxa by having the following combination of features: vertex rugose-striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally or anteromedially; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, rugose-coriaceous to coriaceous medially and ventrally; first two metasomal tergites scultpured, remaining ones smooth.

Female. Colour: Head brown; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape and pedicel light brown; flagellomeres brown, apical 10 white (broken); palpi white. Mesonotum brown to dark brown; propodeum, metapleuron and first metasomal tergite black, brown apically; second metasomal tergite dark brown with a light brown basal semicircular area; third and fourth metasomal tergites brown; remaining metasomal tergites brown to light brown, ovipositor and sheaths brown to honey yellow, ovipositor apex strongly sclerotized, black. Fore and middle coxae white; trochanter and trochantellus pale yellow; fore femur light brown; middle femur brown; fore and middle tibia and tarsi light brown; hind coxa dark brown; trochanter and trochantellus honey yellow; femur honey yellow at basal first third, apical two thirds dark brown; tibia brown; tarsi dark brown. Wings dusky, veins and tegula honey yellow; stigma yellow at basal third, dark brown apically. Body length: 4.2 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 3.3 mm. Head: Clypeus straite-rugose; face striate; frons rugose; vertex rugose-striate; temple weakly striate dorsally, gena smooth; eye 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space almost 0.4 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance 3 times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape less than 1.5 times its width (frontal view); antenna with 30 flagellomeres (broken). Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9 times its maximum height; pronotum striate dorsally, slightly rugose ventrally; pronotal groove, wide and scrobiculate; propleuron striate; lateral mesoscutal lobes coriaceous medially, striate-rugose laterally; median mesoscutal lobe coriaceous anteromedially, remaining area striate-rugose; notauli scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring in a longitudinally striate-rugose area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus discontinuous, both deep and narrow; mesopleuron porcate dorsally, including subalar area, rugose-coriaceous antero-ventrally, coriaceous ventrally; precoxal sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma slightly coriaceous; metapleuron striate; propodeum longitudinally striate; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa indistinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma three times its maximum width; vein r 0.5 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU 0.4 times length of vein 1M. Legs: fore tibia with a row of at least seven spines; hind coxa striate, with a distinct basoventral tubercle; middle and hind femora slightly striate. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly rugose anteriorly, costate with rugose microsculpture medially and posteriorly, length three times its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite striate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and straight; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 1.6 times length of metasoma.

Male.Unknown

Females: Head: scape and pedicel with a brown stripe laterally Body length: close to 4.0–4.2 mm; ovipositor about 3.3–3.8. Head: Eye 1.1–1.4 times higher than wide (lateral view). Wings: Fore wing length 3.8–4.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.0–3.5 times its maximum width. Metasoma: length of first metasomal tergite 2.6–3.0 times its apical width (dorsal view).

Female (UCOB). Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, sector Batatal, 10°09.15'N, 69° 30.205'W, 809 m, 15–19.vii.2008, YTP, R. Briceño col., DNA voucher no. IB-CNIN567; GenBank accession no. JN870424.

Two females (IB-UNAM CNIN, DCBU).One female, Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, La Cimara #5, 10°12.656'N, 69°25.339'W, 7-10.x.2009, R. Briceño col., DNA voucher no. (BOLD systems) DORYC241-11; GenBank accession no. JN266991; one female, Venezuela, Lara, Parque Nacional Cerro Saroche, Cañaote #3, 10°11.83'N, 69°26.13'W, 929 m, 15–19.vii.08, col. R. Briceño, DNA voucher no. (BOLD systems) DORYC237-11; GenBank accession no. JN266987.

Unknown.

The name of this species refers to the Venezuelan state where the species was collected.

This species runs to Notiospathius leucacrocera (Enderlein) in the extension (Zaldívar-Riverón and De Jesús-Bonilla 2010, 2011) to Marsh’s (2002) key to Costa Rican species. However, it differs from the latter species by having the mesosoma and first metasomal tergite mostly black (mesosoma and first metasomal tergite dark brown in Notiospathius leucacrocera); fore and middle coxae white, femora pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds; (fore and middle legs completely yellow in Notiospathius leucacrocera), pronotum and propleuron coriaceous and striate, respectively (pronotum and propleuron costate in Notiospathius leucacrocera).Notiospathius venezuelae can be distinguished from the remaining described species of the genus by having the following combination of features: hind coxa black, pale yellow apically; pronotum coriaceous; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli not joining, obscuring in a large costate area; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally.

Female. Colour: Head dark brown to black; orbit surrounding eyes yellow; scape light brown, with a brown stripe; flagellomeres dark brown, last 11 white; palpi white. Mesosoma and first metasomal tergite black except pronotum wich is brown; second metasomal tergite dark brown; third, fourth and fifth metasomal tergites brown with a light brown band at the middle; sixth metasomal tergite dark brown, pale yellow in apex; remaining metasomal tergites pale yellow; ovipositor brown; sheaths pale yellow turning dark brown. Fore and middle coxae and trochanter white, trochantellus brown, femora pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow apically, tibiae light brown, tarsi brown; hind coxa black, pale yellow apically; trochanter pale yellow; trochantellus brown; femur white to pale yellow on basal third, brown on apical two thirds, pale yellow at extreme apex; tibia pale yellow basally, turning light brown apically; tarsi brown. Wings dusky; veins and stigma brown; tegula light brown. Body length: 4.1 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 1.6 mm. Head: Clypeus rugose; face, frons and vertex striate; temple slightly striate; gena smooth; eye about 1.1 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 0.2 times eye height (lateral view); temple 0.2 times eye width (dorsal view); hypoclypeal depression elliptic; ocular-ocellar distance three times diameter of lateral ocellus; length of scape twice its width (frontal view); antenna with 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 2.1 times its maximum height; pronotum coriaceous; pronotal groove wide and coriaceous; propleuron striate; mesoscutal lobes coriaceous; notauli narrow, scrobiculate and with coriaceous microsculpture, not joining, obscuring in a large costate area; scutellar disc coriaceous; mesopleural and subalar sulcus continuous, both scrobiculate; mesopleuron porcate-coriaceous dorsally, coriaceous medially and ventrally; precoxal sulcus narrow, deep and scrobiculated, as long as mesopleuron; venter of mesosoma coriaceous; metapleuron and propodeum costate with rugose microsculpture; apical lateral corners with distinct tubercles; spines over hind coxa distinct. Wings: Fore wing length 5.1 times its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.3 times its maximum width; vein r 0.3 length of vein 3RSa; vein m-cu antefurcal to vein 2RS; vein 1cu-a distinctly antefurcal to vein 1M; hind wing vein M+CU about 0.5 times length of vein 1M. Legs: hind coxa rugose at the base, striate posteriorly, indistinct tubercule at the base; middle and hind femora coriaceous. Metasoma: First metasomal tergite strongly costate with rugose microsculpture, length 3.2 its apical width (dorsal view); basal sternal plate (acrosternite) about 0.7 times length of tergum; second metasomal tergite slightly costate; suture between second and third metasomal tergites distinct and sinuate; third metasomal tergite smooth; remaining metasomal tergites smooth and polished; ovipositor about 0.7 times length of metasoma.

Male. Essentially as female; pronotum light brown; third and fourth metasomal tergites light brown with a honey yellow band at the middle; antenna with 24 flagellomeres dark brown, only last three white.

Females: Body length: 2.8–4.1 mm (lateral view), ovipositor 1.0–1.6 mm. Head: Eye 1.1–1.2 times higher than wide (lateral view); malar space 3.3–4.5 mm Wings: Fore wing length 4.2–5.1 times its maximum width, length of pterostigma 2.8–3.6 times its maximum width. Metasoma: length of first metasomal tergite 3.2–3.6 times its apical width (dorsal view).

Female (IB-UNAM CNIN). Venezuela, Carabobo, Palmichal, 10.28590, -68.23993, 93m, 30–3.viii.07, YTP/68 plates, shade coffee, orange grove, H. Clebsch, L. García col., DNA voucher no. (BOLD system) DORYC208-11; GenBank accession no. JN266963.

Four specimens, three males, one female (IB-UNAM CNIN, UCOB). One female and two male, same data as holotype, DNA voucher nos (BOLD system) DORYC206-11, DORYC213-11, GenBank accession nos JN266961, JN266968; one male, Venezuela Yaracuy Mpio. San Felipe, Est. Biol. Guáquira, 107 m, 10°17.84'N, 68°39.32'W, sweep, 11:00 am, selva tropical, DNA voucher no. IB-CNIN-396, GenBank accession no. JN870300; one male, Costa Rica, Heredia, 11 km ESE La Virgen, 10°21'N, 84°03'W, 20-II-2004, INBIO-OET transect, 250-350 m, DNA voucher no. IB-CNIN537, GenBank accession no. JN870400.

Unknown.

We have named this species after the country where most of the specimens of this new species were collected.