Euplectrus josei Schauff

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 : 91-92

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus josei Schauff Figures 603-609, 613-615, 793

Euplectrus josei Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 209-210. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 1♀ 1♂ paratypes of Euplectrus josei (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 29♀ 2♂ from Guanacaste Province on Paectes lunodes and Paectes tumida ; caterpillar project voucher codes: 93-SRNP-2869, 93-SRNP-2871, 93-SRNP-3064, 93-SRNP-3093, 95-SRNP-6055 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially yellowish-brown in both sexes, reaching to level of outer lateral margin of toruli (Figs 604, 605); vertex with parts close to eyes dark reddish-brown; eyes and ocelli large (Figs 613, 614), WE/WF = 0.7, OOL/DO = 0.6; petiole 0.7 × as long as wide in female, 1.0 × in male; legs white with hind coxa yellowish-white (Fig. 603); female gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown anterolateral margins, posterior ½ with anterior ½ dark brown and posterior ½ reddish-brown (Fig. 606), male gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown anterolateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 607); male antenna with scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, 3.0 × as long as wide (Fig. 609).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape white, pedicel and flagellomeres yellowish-brown (Fig. 608). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, reaching to level of outer lateral margin of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 604). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 613). Vertex with parts close to eyes dark reddish-brown; with very weak reticulation (Fig. 614). Occipital margin with a carina (Fig. 614).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 603). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 13 setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 615). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 793), groove medially 0.2 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 793); anteromedially with a transverse triangular cup; propodeal callus with nine setae. Legs white with hind coxa yellowish-white (Fig. 603). Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with two rows of setae, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 19 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown anterolateral margins, posterior ½ with anterior ½ dark brown and posterior ½ reddish-brown (Fig. 606).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.5/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 8.0/3.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.6; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/1.5/3.3/2.4; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.8; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.2/2.6/6.8/2.2/1.8/1.0/1.8; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Length of body 2.2 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 609), with sensory pores along entire ventral margin. Otherwise similar to female except petiole longer; gaster shorter with anterior ½ white with dark brown anterolateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 607).

Ratios. LC/WS = 3.0; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.2.

Hosts and biology.

Paectes lunodes feeding on Ocotea veraguensis ( Lauraceae ) ( Schauff and Janzen 2001), Paectes tumida feeding on Bursera simaruba ( Burseraceae ) (new record) (hosts are Euteliidae ).

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).