The etymology lantingi is a Latinized noun in the genitive singular. The first author and Rainforest Expeditions SAC, which supports the project “Discovery new species” in Tambopata would like to dedicate the discovery of this new species to Frans Lanting, who with his wife Christine Eckstrom was a key player in raising awareness and establishing the international standing of Tambopata so that it became known in every corner of the world.
Frans Lanting arrived in Peru in 1993 to write a special report for the National Geographic magazine about the macaws of the Colorado clay lick and the scientific project that was beginning to shelter them to save them from predation and death. By then the Tambopata Research Center had been founded, a research center that could hardly be financed. His photos, the images that we were going to show in the publication, made a difference for TRC, Tambopata, the region, and the entire country.
Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world.
Mnioes poncei sp. nov. can be distinguished from its female congeners by the following combination of traits: frontal and facial orbit white, tegula black, mesoscutum with longitudinal nodular stripes extending from anterior margin to center and a pot at center white, and metasoma red. This species has the shortest ovipositor sheath length in the genus, 1.6× as long as the metathoracic tibia.
