Euplectrus magdae 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 : 92-93

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus magdae Schauff Figures 18, 616-622, 630-632, 794

Euplectrus magdae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 210-214. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 1♀ paratype of Euplectrus magdae (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 42♀ 11♂ from Guanacaste Province; caterpillar project voucher codes: 94-SRNP-6167, 96-SRNP-11096, 99-SRNP-11068, 00-SRNP-19037, 01-SRNP-9851, 01-SRNP-16124, 05-SRNP-46987, 07-SRNP-46045, 11-SRNP-56354 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of outer lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 617); vertex reddish-brown; dorsellum anteriorly with two large foveae (Fig. 794); fore and mid legs yellowish-white, hind leg with coxa yellowish-brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-white (Fig. 616); petiole 0.9 × as long as wide in female, 1.2 × in male; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white (female, Fig. 619), or dusky white (male, Fig. 620), with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown.

Description.

Female. Length of body 3.0 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-2 yellowish-white, 3-4 pale brown, 5-6 dark brown (Fig. 621). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of outer lateral margins of toruli, with part between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 617), and vertex reddish-brown. Frons close to eyes with three rows of setae (Fig. 630). Vertex smooth (Fig. 631). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 631).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 616). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 14 setae. Scutellum 0.9 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 632). Dorsellum anteriorly with two large foveae (Fig. 794), surface behind foveae reticulate. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 794); anteromedially with a transverse triangular cup; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs (Fig. 616): fore and mid legs yellowish-white, hind leg with coxa yellowish-brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-white. Fore wing with submarginal vein with five setae; costal cell on ventral surface with two rows of setae, and margin with five setae close to marginal vein; with 24 admarginal setae, in two rows.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 619).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.2/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 5.8/3.8/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.3; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.5/4.6/3.1; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 2.1; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.8/2.5/6.2/2.3/1.5/1.0/1.5; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 1.1.

Male. Length of body 1.8 mm. Scape white, expanded and widest close to base (Fig. 622), sensory pores confined to a wide groove along entire ventral margin. Otherwise similar to female except legs paler: fore and mid coxae white, femora yellowish-white in basal ½, yellowish-brown in apical ½, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown; petiole longer; gaster with anterior ½ dusky white with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 620), and shorter.

Ratios. LC/WS = 2.7; LP/WP = 1.2; MM/LG = 1.5.

Hosts and biology.

Dasylophia maxtlaDHJ06 ( Schauff and Janzen 2001); new records: Chliara croesus feeding on Andira inermis , Colax apulusDHJ01 feeding on Pterocarpus orbiculatus , Dasylophia guarana feeding on Platymiscium parviflorum , Hapigiodes sigifredomarini feeding on Lonchocarpus guatemalensis , Pentobesa pinnaDHJ02 feeding on Inga vera and Inga punctata . All hosts are Notodontidae , and all host plants are Fabaceae .

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).