Euplectrus zamorai 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 : 116-117

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus zamorai Schauff Figures 502-505, 509-511, 802

Euplectrus zamorai Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 227-228. Holotype ♀ (USNM), examined.

Material.

Type material: holotype female of Euplectrus zamorai (USNM). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 2♀ from Guanacaste and Heredia provinces in malaise traps (BMNH, INBio).

Diagnosis.

Lower face black (Fig. 503); antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-3 yellowish-white, flagellomeres 4-6 dark brown (Fig. 505); mandibles and palpi dark brown; fore and midlegs with coxae yellowish-white, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown; hind coxa dark brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ pale brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown (Fig. 502); petiole 0.9 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 504).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.2 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-3 yellowish-white, 4-6 dark brown (Fig. 505). Mandibles and palpi dark brown. Head including lower face black and shiny (Fig. 503). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 509). Vertex smooth (Fig. 510). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 510).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 502). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with four setae. Scutellum 0.9 × as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth (Fig. 511). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove (Fig. 802), medially 0.2 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 802); anteromedially with a semicircular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs (Fig. 502): fore and mid legs with coxae yellowish-white, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown; hind coxa dark brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ pale brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 12 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 504).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.2/1.1/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 4.8/2.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.3/3.2; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.8; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.4/2.7/6.7/2.3/1.6/1.0/1.7; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 0.9.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Costa Rica ( Schauff and Janzen 2001) (Guanacaste & Heredia Provinces).