Euplectrus ronnai ( Brethes )

Hansson, Christer, Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2015, Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 485, pp. 1-236 : 117-118

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus ronnai ( Brethes) Figures 579, 580

Heteroscapus ronnai Brèthes, 1918: 10. Lectotype ♂ (MACN), designated here.

Euplectrus ronnai ( Brèthes) ( De Santis 1980b: 154).

Material.

See below under remarks.

Hosts and biology.

Lepidoptera indet. ( Brèthes 1918).

Distribution.

Brazil ( Brèthes 1918).

Remarks.

The type material of this species is mainly destroyed, the only parts remaining (Juan José Martínez in MACN, personal communication) are one antenna each of a male and a female on slides (Figs 579, 580). As only an antenna of each sex remain it is difficult to fix the identity of Euplectrus ronnai . The strongly enlarged yellow scape in the male is the same as in Euplectrus valverdei , but some other characters are different between these species. The males of Euplectrus ronnai have entire antenna yellow (Fig. 580, also according to the original description), and mid tibia with apical part black (according to original description); males of Euplectrus valverdei have flagellomeres 1-4 yellowish-white and 5-6 pale brown, and mid tibia entirely yellowish-brown. Thus these are very probably different species. The only remaining and distinctive part of Euplectrus ronnai is the male antenna on slide, which also agrees with the original description, and this is hereby designated as lectotype for the species. The female antenna on slide is designated paralectotype of Euplectrus ronnai .