Agrophaspidium flavimana Wheeler and Mlynarek, sp. n.

(Figs. 1, 3, 5–10)

Description: Total length 1.7–2.0mm. Frons yellow anteriorly, dark brown posteriorly; frontal triangle in male almost reaching anterior margin of frons (Fig. 6), shining except for anterior apex; frontal triangle in female reaching anterior margin of frons, entirely shining; ocellar tubercle black, shining; 5 distinct, strong fronto-orbital setae (Figs. 5–6); 3–4 long interfrontal setulae anterior or anterolateral to frontal triangle, strongest pair at anterior margin of frons; ocellar bristles shorter than postocellars or verticals; inner vertical bristle stout, proclinate; outer vertical bristle longer and stronger than inner verticals or postocellars; eye large, bare; genal height 0.08–0.1 times eye height; vibrissa twice as long as genal setae; postgena brown, sparsely pollinose; occiput brown, sparsely pollinose; face pale, densely pollinose; antenna pedicel small, darker than first flagellomere; first flagellomere yellow, darker at insertion of arista; arista slender, black; proboscis brown, pollinose, palpus brown.

Scutum brown, shining; postpronotum brown, sparsely pollinose, 1 postpronotal bristle stronger than others; scutellum mostly yellow, brown anteriorly near junction with scutum; scutellar projections distinct but short, yellow (Fig. 3); scutellar bristles strong, dark, twice as long as scutellar projections, other setulae sparse, pale; thoracic pleurites brown, mostly shining. Legs yellow except for dark brown band around middle of all femora and tibiae and distal three tarsomeres dark brown. Wing: ratio of second to third costal sectors 1.2–1.3:1; halter yellow. Abdomen brown, subshining.

Male postabdomen: epandrium expanded (Fig. 8); wider than dorsal pregenital sclerite; surstylus with short, triangular outer lobe and quadrate inner lobe bearing patches of dense setulae (Figs. 9–10); hypandrium subquadrate, as long as high; cercus elongate, straight, clavate in lateral view (Fig. 8), triangular in posterior view, extending ventrally almost to ventral apex of surstylus (Fig. 10).

Type material: Holotype ɗ: COSTA RICA: Heredia, La Selva Biological Station (10°26’N 84°01’W), sweep STR trail, 09.ii.2003, S.E. Brooks (LEM). Paratypes: COSTA RICA: La Suiza de Turrialba, July, P. Schild (1ɗ, USNM), Higuito, San Mateo, P. Schild (1Ψ, USNM).

Etymology: The species name is from the Latin flavus (yellow) and manus (hand), referring to the colour of the scutellum.