Galeopsomyia perla Hansson, 2023

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, EULOPHIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5: The genus Galeopsomyia Girault, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 441-442

Galeopsomyia perla Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 580, 581 , 864 )

Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid ( Fig. 864 ); genal carina present; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 580 ) with median part with strong reticulation and a complete median groove, with submedian grooves curved and diverging towards posterior part; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum ( Fig. 580 ) with strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation, callus with four setae; petiole very short, just a narrow band; gaster ( Fig. 580 ) 3.4× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 24 ), Gt7 2.0× as long as width at base, tergites with strong reticulation.

Female holotype: length of body 2.3mm (paratype 2.1mm).

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons, including scrobes, and vertex golden-green, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden-green. Legs with coxae golden-green; trochanters dark brown; femora golden-green with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1 with anterior two-thirds metallic bluish-green, posterior one-third and remaining tergites metallic purple; gonoplac black.

Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a median groove in posterior half, with nine scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation on median part and with a complete median groove, lateral parts with strong reticulation and with six scattered setae, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, slightly curved and diverging towards posterior part. Dorsellum with weak sculpture and shiny, with median carina. Propodeum with a wide median carina that expands strongly posteriorly; with strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation; callus with four setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row broken.

Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster very elongate; medio-basal Gt1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U; tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 21; head length, frontal view 35; POL 9; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 43; mouth width nm; malar space 10.5; eye length 19; scape length 15; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 45; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7; F1 width 5; F2 length 7; F2 width 5; F3 length 7; F3 width 5; clava length 16; clava width 5; C3 length 5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 54; mesosoma width 38; midlobe of mesoscutum length 21.5; mesoscutellum length 21; mesoscutellum width 18; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 7; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 7; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 9; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 7; costal cell length 31; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2.2; marginal vein length 28; stigmal vein length 10; gaster length 104; gaster width 31; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 11; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 14; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 22; Gt

7 width (measured at base) 11; longest cercal seta length 13; shortest cercal seta length 4.5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Limón, Reserva Biológica Hitoy-Cerere, Headquarter , 100m, 14- 18.i.1991, J.S. Noyes ( NHMUK) . Paratype: 1♀ TRINIDAD, St George, St Augustine , viii.1976, F.D. Bennett ( NHMUK) .

Figures

Figs 580–583. Galeopsomyia perla, holotype ♀ – (580) habitus dorsal view; (581) habitus lateral view. Galeopsomyia philodendrae, holotype ♀ – (582) habitus dorsal view; (583) habitus lateral view.

Figs 864–871. Head incl. antennae, lateral view ♀ – (864) Galeopsomyia perla; (865) G. picuda; (866) G. teronadis; (867) G. pilonensis; (868) G. schefflerae; (869) G. pyrillia; (870) G. rugosa; (871) G. weinmanniae.

Figs 23–28. Galeopsomyia spp., ♀, first gastral tergite (Gt1) dorsal view – (23) G. epidius; (24) G. osaensis; (25) G. fausta; (26) G. blakeae; (27) G. illydris; (28) G.devania.