Euplectrus jesusugaldei Hansson

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 : 53-54

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus jesusugaldei Hansson sp. n. Figures 230-233, 237-239, 762

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Horizones, 28.ix.1997, gusaneros, ex Tarachidia bicolorata eating Heliotropium indicum , no barcode, 97-SRNP-9370" (BMNH). PARATYPES: 3♀ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, INBio). Note: all paratypes are broken.

Diagnosis.

Lower face with median part reddish-brown, pale area reaching slightly outside of outer lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 231); scutellum with very weak and engraved reticulation, hence shiny (Fig. 239); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 230); petiole 0.7 × as long as wide; gaster reddish-brown with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 232).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.0 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres pale brown (Fig. 233). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face with median part reddish-brown, pale area reaching slightly outside of outer lateral margins of toruli, with parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 231). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 237). Vertex smooth outside ocellar triangle, with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle (Fig. 238). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 238).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 230). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with ten setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation and hence shiny (Fig. 239). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove, medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum (Fig. 762). Propodeum smooth (Fig. 762); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 11 setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 230). Fore wing: submarginal vein with four setae; costal cell with one row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 16 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster reddish-brown with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 232).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.7/1.0/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 5.8/3.3/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.6; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.0/3.2; WH/WT = 1.0; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.5/6.9/2.4/1.5/1.0/1.8; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 1.3.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on penultimate instar larva of Tarachidia bicolorata ( Noctuidae ) feeding on Heliotropium indicum ( Boraginaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).

Etymology.

This species is named after Jesus A. Ugalde-Gomez, in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.