Galeopsomyia cuprea (Ashmead)

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5 The genus Galeopsomyia Girault by Christer Hansson * & Paul E. Hanson **, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 194-195

Galeopsomyia cuprea (Ashmead)

( Figs 654, 655 )

Tetrastichus cupreus Ashmead 1894:184-185 (in Riley et al. 1894). Lectotype ♀ (primary type no. 5.359 5, NHMUK 013458205) designated by LaSalle & Schauff (1992:30), examined. West Indies (St Vincent).

Galeopsomyia cuprea (Ashmead) , LaSalle & Schauff (1992:30).

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava ( Fig. 655 ); genal carina short and weak, present just close to mouth opening; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 654 ) with very weak reticulation on median part and shiny, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, with a weak median groove in anterior half, submedian grooves with outer margin indistinct, almost straight and diverging slightly towards posterior part; dorsellum with a very weak median carina; femora yellowish-brown ( Fig. 655 ); propodeum ( Fig. 654 ) with strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation, callus with seven setae; petiole very short, just a narrow band; gaster ( Fig. 654 ) 2.2× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt 1 with longitudinal carinae laterally, Gt 1 with weak reticulation, remaining tergites with strong reticulation, gonoplac dark brown ( Fig. 655 ).

Description (female lectotype). Length 1.8mm.

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel pale brown, flagellum brown. Head with frons golden-green, scrobes black, clypeus brown; vertex metallic bluish-green. Thoracic dorsum golden-green. Legs with fore and mid coxae dark brown with metallic tinges, hind coxa golden-green; trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown. Petiole dark brown. Gaster golden-green; gonoplac yellowish-brown.

Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, frons rugose, clypeal area smooth, scrobes with weak reticulation; genal carina short and weak, present just close to mouth opening. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle.

Mesoscutum with weak reticulation and shiny, especially so on midlobe, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a median groove in posterior one-third, and with 12 scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with very weak reticulation on median part and shiny, lateral parts with stronger reticulation and with ten scattered setae, meshes elongate, with a weak median groove in anterior half; submedian grooves with outer margin indistinct, almost straight and diverging slightly towards posterior part. Dorsellum with weak sculpture and shiny, with a very weak median carina. Propodeum with median carina expanding towards posterior part; with irregular carinae and strong reticulation; callus with seven setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with longitudinal carinae laterally; Gt 1 with weak reticulation, remaining tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 27; head length, frontal view 47; POL 11; OOL 6.5; lateral ocellus diameter 5; head width 58.5; mouth width 16.5; malar space 15; eye length 28; scape length 20; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 51; pedicel length 9; pedicel width, dorsal view 4.5; F1 length 8; F1 width 5; F2 length 6.5; F2 width 5; F3 length 7.5; F3 width 5; clava length 16; clava width 6; C3 length 5; spicule length 1; mesosoma length 68; mesosoma width 51; midlobe of mesoscutum length 25.5; mesoscutellum length 28; mesoscutellum width 23; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 12.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum (measured medially) 5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 10; costal cell length 34; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 30; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 84; gaster width 39; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 8.5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 16; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 9; Gt

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width (measured at base) 15; longest cercal seta length nm; shortest cercal seta length nm.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. The West Indies ( St. Vincent) ( Ashmead 1894).

Material examined. Lectotype female in NHMUK.

Figures

Figs 652–655. Tetrastichodes compactus Howard, lectotype ♀ (NHMUK 013458204) – (652) habitus dorsal view; (653) habitus lateral view. Tetrastichus cupreus Ashmead, lectotype ♀ (NHMUK 013458205) – (654) habitus dorsal view; (655) habitus lateral view.