Euplectrus rojasi 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 : 112-113

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus rojasi Schauff

Euplectrus rojasi Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 217-219. Holotype ♀ (USNM), not found.

Material.

The species was described from a single female that was deposited in USNM ( Schauff and Janzen 2001). However, this holotype could not be located in the collec tions of USNM (M. Gates, personal communication), and therefore no material of this species has been examined.

Diagnosis.

In spite of the lack of material the original description gives valuable clues as to the identity of this species. Lower face is brown medially and dark yellow lateral to median dark brown area; hind coxae are black; posterior part of scutellum is overhanging dorsellum and hides anterior part of dorsellum; propodeum with anteromedian cup flattened, not raised as in the other species of Euplectrus ; petiole is 1.5 × as long as wide, i.e. very long for a Euplectrus .

Hosts and biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

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