Euplectrus hansoni 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 : 88-89

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus hansoni Schauff Figures 383-386, 390-392, 790

Euplectrus hansoni Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 203-204. Holotype ♀ (USNM), examined.

Material.

Type material: ♀ holotype (USNM). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 1♀ from Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Sendero Mismo, 30.viii.2006, ex Isochromodes sheilaDHJ05 on Calatola costaricensis , caterpillar project voucher code 06-SRNP-34036, no barcode (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially dark reddish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli (Fig. 384); gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 385); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 383); occipital margin rounded (Fig. 391); petiole 1.2 × as long as wide.

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.6 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, 2 pale brown, 3-6 dark brown (Fig. 386). Mandibles yellowish-brown, palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially dark reddish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli, with part between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 384). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 390). Vertex smooth (Fig. 391). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 391).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 383). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 13 setae. Scutellum 0.9 × as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 392). Dorsellum with a very narrow groove along anterior margin (Fig. 790), medially less than 0.1 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 790); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 383). Fore wing: costal cell with two complete rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with nine setae in apical ½; with 35 admarginal setae, in two rows in basal ⅔, with three rows in apical ⅓.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 385).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.3/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 8.4/5.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.9; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.3/3.2; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.9; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.7/2.9/7.8/2.7/1.6/1.0/2.0; LP/WP = 1.2; MM/LG = 0.9.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Isochromodes sheilaDHJ05 ( Geometridae ) feeding on Calatola costaricensis ( Icacinaceae ) (new record).

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) ( Schauff and Janzen 2001).