Neopomphale prymna, HANSSON & LASALLE, 2003

HANSSON, C. & LASALLE, J., 2003, Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Journal of Natural History 37 (6), pp. 697-778 : 735

Neopomphale prymna sp. n.

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Diagnosis Scutellar setae situated close to hind margin of scutellum (figure 57).

Female (length of body = 0.5–0.6 mm).

Colour. Antenna whitish, slightly infuscate. Head and mesosoma dark with golden-purple tinges. Coxae and femora dark; tibiae and tarsi pale. Fore wing with basal one-third infuscate, remaining two-thirds hyaline. Gaster dark with goldenpurple tinges, membranes whitish.

Head. Antenna as in rubescens (figure 35). HE/MS/MO: 2.6/1.0/not measurable. Frons and vertex with weak reticulation, meshes transverse. Posterior ocelli situated at occipital margin; POL/OOL: 3.5/1.0. Occipital margin rounded; transverse groove and median longitudinal groove ± distinct. WH/WT=1.0.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum flattened, 0.5× as long as wide, with weak and engraved reticulation, anterior one-half with isodiametric meshes, posterior one-half with elongate meshes, with one pair of setae situated close to anterior margin. Scutellum flat to slightly convex, 0.7× as long as wide, with weak and engraved reticulation, meshes elongate; scutellar setae situated close to posterior margin, ratio distances to anterior margin of scutellum/posterior margin of scutellum=6.7. Axilla advanced 0.8× its length in front of scuto-scutellar sulcus. TPS moderately curved. Fore wing speculum closed below; LW/LM/HW: 2.0/1.0/1.1; postmarginal vein absent. Propodeum smooth and shiny; propodeal callus with two setae.

Metasoma. Gastral tergites smooth and shiny; MM/LG=0.8–1.1.

Material examined

H: X, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Golfo Dulce , 3 km SW Rincón, 10 m, October 1991, P. Hanson (BMNH) .

P: 1 X, ‘ Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Golfo Dulce , 24 km SW Piedras Blancas, 200 m, 8°46∞N, 83°24∞W, x.1990, P. Hanson’ (MIUCR) .

Distribution Costa Rica.