Galeopsomyia alas Hansson, 2023

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, EULOPHIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5: The genus Galeopsomyia Girault, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 64-65

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8372024

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11175524

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B2833D1-AB03-45F1-99DA-7F173C6CD86D

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Galeopsomyia alas Hansson
status

sp.nov.

Galeopsomyia alas Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 19 View Figs 15–22 , 48, 49 View Figs 48–51 , 908 View Figs 907–914 , 1000)

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava (Fig. 1000); with genal carina; mesoscutellum 1.0× as long as wide, with elongate meshes ( Fig. 908 View Figs 907–914 ); fore coxa with a strong carina along posterior margin and with part in front of carina concave ( Fig. 19 View Figs 15–22 ), hind coxa without carina along posterior margin; propodeum with a wide median carina that splits in posterior part to form an inverted “Y” ( Fig. 48 View Figs 48–51 ); petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal surface; gaster 2.3× as long as wide, Gt 2 0.3× as long as Gt 4, Gt 1 with weak reticulation and partly smooth, more shiny than remaining tergites and medio-basal part with a ±rectangular-semicircular incision ( Fig. 48 View Figs 48–51 ).

Female holotype: length of body 2.0mm (paratypes 2.0– 2.1mm).

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum brown. Head with frons metallic bluish-green, antennal scrobes black, clypeus dark brown; vertex black with metallic bluish-green tinges. Thoracic dorsum metallic bluish-green. Legs with fore and mid coxae dark brown to black, hind coxa metallic bluish-green; trochanters dark brown; fore and mid femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown, hind femur black with metallic tinges; fore and mid tibiae yellowish-brown, hind tibia pale brown; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 dark brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1 metallic bluish-green, Gt 2-4 golden-purple, Gt 5-6 metallic bluish-green, Gt 7 black with metallic tinges; gonoplac black.

Antenna with solid clava. Frons with strong reticulation, clypeus and scrobes with weak reticulation; with a strong genal carina that reaches level of lower margin of eye. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside triangle.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes and slightly elongate on midlobe; midlobe with ten scattered adnotaular setae, without median groove. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves weak, wide apart and diverging towards posterior part; anterior pair of setae placed in front of the middle of mesoscutellum. Dorsellum with strong sculpture. Propodeum with a strong and wide median carina, posterior part splits into an inverted “Y”; callus with two setae. Fore and mid coxae with weak reticulation, hind coxa with strong reticulation; fore coxa with a strong carina along posterior margin and with part in front of carina concave; hind coxa without carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below and towards base of wing; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole transverse, with strong sculpture on dorsal surface. Gaster elongate; Gt 1 with weak reticulation, partly smooth, and shiny, remaining tergites with strong reticulation; medio-basal Gt

1 with a ±rectangular-semicircular incision.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 21; head length, frontal view 37; POL 11; OOL 5.5; lateral ocellus diameter 3.5; head width 45; mouth width 15; malar space 13; eye length 21; scape length 16; scape width 3.7; pedicel+flagellum length 40; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 6; F1 width 4; F2 length 6; F2 width 4; F3 length 5; F3 width 4.5; clava length 12; clava width 6.2; C3 length 4.5; spicule length 1; mesosoma length 61; mesosoma width 45; midlobe of mesoscutum length 25; mesoscutellum length 24; mesoscutellum width 23; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 12; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 16.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 3.5; dorsellum length 2; propodeum length 8; costal cell length 32; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 30; stigmal vein length 10; gaster length 86; gaster width 37; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 6; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 22; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 6; Gt

7 width (measured at base) 10; longest cercal seta length 12; shortest cercal seta length 5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, 11km SE La Virgen , 10°20’N, 84°04’W, 450-550m, 23.ii-20. iv.2003, INBio, OET, ALAS ( NHMUK) GoogleMaps . Paratypes (5♀, MZLU, MZUCR, NHMUK) : 1♀ with same label data as holotype GoogleMaps ; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia , 6km ENE Vara Blanca, 10°11’N, 84°07’W, 2000m, iii.2002, INBio, OET,ALAS GoogleMaps ; 1♀ COSTA RICA, San José, Zurqui de Moravia , 10º03’03’’N, 84º00’22’’W, 1600m, v.1991, P. Hanson GoogleMaps ; 2♀ from same locality as previous but collected iv.1992 GoogleMaps .

Etymology. Named after the acronym “ALAS” = Arthropods of La Selva.

MZLU

Sweden, Lund, Lund University

INBio

Costa Rica, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

MZLU

Lund University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Galeopsomyia

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