Esphora, Noyes, 2023

Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 2 (11), pp. 1-921 : 675

Key to Costa Rican species of Esphora

(Females)

1. Antenna (Figs 1859, 1860) with scape about 1.7-1.9X as long as broad and F3 clearly transverse; fore wing conspicuously infuscate below marginal vein (Fig. 1857); ovipositor hardly exserted, the exserted part not more than 0.5X as long as mid tibial spur, gonostylus not more than 1.3X as long as mid tibial spur .................... ....................................................................................................... cyllene sp.nov.

- Antenna (Fig. 1866) with scape about 2-2.4X as long as broad and F3 longer than broad; fore wing not infuscate below marginal vein (Fig. 1865); ovipositor clearly exserted, the exserted part more than 0.6X as long as mid tibia spur, gonostylus at least about 1.7X as long as mid tibial spur ........................................ rhea sp.nov.