Euplectrus furnius Walker

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 : 105

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus furnius Walker

Euplectrus furnius Walker, 1843: 48. Lectotype ♀ (BMNH), examined.

Material.

Type material: ♀ lectotype of Euplectrus furnius (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

Lower face black; antennal flagellum short, e.g. flagellomeres 3-4 1.1 × as long as wide; scutellum with very weak reticulation, almost smooth; legs yellowish-brown; petiole 0.9 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown.

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.0 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-2 yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 3-6 pale brown. Mandibles and palpi yellowish-brown. Head including lower face black and shiny. Vertex smooth and shiny. Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle.

Mesosoma black and shiny. Scutellum convex, 1.0 × as long as wide, with very weak engraved reticulation, posterior and lateral margins smooth. Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae, groove medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell on margin with two setae close to marginal vein.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown.

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.3/1.0/nm; POL/OOL/POO = 4.0/3.0/nm; OOL/DO = nm; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/6.3/7.3/5.7; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.0/7.6/2.8/1.4/1.0/2.0; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 1.5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

The West Indies (St Vincent) ( Walker 1843).

Remarks.

Lectotype specimen with left flagellum missing. See also remarks under Euplectrus insularis .