Centistidea insularis (Muesebeck, 1937)

Fig. 3

Mirax insularis Muesebeck, 1937: 139;

holotype in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, USA (USNM) (holotype images examined on the website of USNM; paratypes examined) .

Mirax insularis – Shenefelt 1973: 677. — Papp 2013: 108, figs 45–54.

Centistidea insularis – Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis

Body length 1.5 mm; yellow or yellow-brown with dark brown or piceous area (Fig. 3a); temple rounded (Fig. 3b); OOL about as long as one side of ocellar triangle; antenna (Fig. 3d) about the length of body, 1 st flagellomere conspicuously longer than 2 nd; mesosoma slightly wider than high, mesoscutum, scutellum, and pleura smooth (Fig. 3e–f); notauli distinctly impressed on more than anterior third of mesoscutum; scutellar sulcus deep, minutely foveolate (Fig. 3e); propodeum (Fig. 3h) with a complete median longitudinal carina and a few irregular transverse on either side of this; sclerotized plate of T1 very narrow (Fig. 3l); plate of T2 reduced to a very narrow longitudinal strip on basal half, strongly widened apically (Fig. 3i); ovipositor sheath shorter than hind basitarsus(following Muesebeck 1937).

Type material

Paratypes

GUADELOUPE • 1 ♀; “ Mirax insularis ♀ Mues. Det. Muesebeck // W.I. July 36 / F. Sein Jr. // Paratype No 52019, U.S.N.M // lot No. 36-26032 // Pres by Imp.Inst.Ent.Brit.Mus.1937.455 // reared from coffee leaf miner”; Jul. 1936; NHMUK010639526; NHMUK • 3 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; NHMUK010639492, NHMUK010639494, NHMUK010639497; NHMUK .

Other material examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂; Londrina; Feb. 1992; A. Menezes Jr. leg.; ex Leucoptera coffeella pupa; NHMUK010639535; NHMUK .

COSTA RICA • 1 ♀; “ Guanacaste Pv Sta. Rose NP Hacienda-1-O”; Janzen and Gauld leg.; 1 Jun.–22 Jul. 1985; NHMUK010639517; NHMUK .

DOMINICA • 1 ♀; “Ridgefield // Nov. 1968 // FD Bennett leg. // No. 644 (C I E Coll., No.19575) // Pres by Com.Inst.Ent.Brit.Mus.1964-2 // det. Muesebeck, 1937 ”; NHMUK010639493; NHMUK • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; No. 645; NHMUK010639512; NHMUK .

Host

Leucoptera coffeella (Guérin-Méneville & Perrottet, 1842) ( Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) [on Coffea arabica L.] (according to original literature and labels under the Brazil material). Also “coffee leaf miner” on the Guadeloupe paratype labels is likely to denote L. coffeella .

Distribution

New to Brazil and Costa Rica; Dominica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico.

Remarks

The hypopygium does not reach the apex of the metasoma in specimens we have examined, and specimens from Costa Rica are slightly darker (brown).