Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle, 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 : 197

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D833085E-4DB3-48D3-964F-A41566442672

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11175682

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399D61F-5795-FF3E-FE3A-FE4FFED952F4

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scientific name

Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle
status

 

Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle View in CoL

( Figs 25 View Figs 23–28 , 660, 661 View Figs 660–663 , 1111)

Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle View in CoL in LaSalle & Peña 1997:464–468. Holotype ♀ (primary type no. 5.396 1, NHMUK 013458207 ), examined. Mexico.

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with constriction between C1 and C2, flagellomeres about as long as wide ( Fig. 661 View Figs 660–663 ); with genal carina; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 660 View Figs 660–663 ) golden-purple, median part with weak reticulation, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves distinct, wide and parallel; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum ( Fig. 660 View Figs 660–663 ) with strong reticulation and irregular carinae, callus with five setae; fore coxa with a sharp carina along base and along posterior margin; petiole transverse and heavily sculptured on dorsal surface; medio-basal Gt 1 with a very strong transverse carina dorsally and with short longitudinal carinae from transverse carina pointing backwards ( Figs 25 View Figs 23–28 , 1111). The male has scattered setae on flagellomeres (see fig 9 in LaSalle & Peña (1997), i.e. without subbasal whorls of setae.

Description. See LaSalle & Peña (1997).

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico ( LaSalle & Peña, 1997), Costa Rica (provinces Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, San José) (new records).

Hosts. Reported as an important parasitoid of the citrus leafminer ( Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton ) ( Lepidoptera : Gracillariidae ) ( Cobo Nuñez 1996, as Galeopsomyia sp. ; LaSalle & Peña 1997). The citrus leafminer is a micromoth introduced to the Americas from Asia, and is a serious pest on citrus trees in the Americas ( Heppner 1993). Prior to this publication no indigenous host for G. fausta was known, but here it is recorded from Phyllocnistis sp. on Trichilia havanensis ( Meliaceae ) and an unidentified microlepidopteran leaf mineer on avocado ( Persea americana ), both records from Costa Rica.

Cobo Nuñez (1996) and Llácer et al. (2005) studied the life cycle of G. fausta in detail and found that it attacked the larva, prepupa and pupa of its host. It attaches its egg to the inner surface of the leaf mine. The first instar larva kills the host and feeds as a solitary ectoparasitoid

Material examined.

Type material: Holotype ♀ of G. fausta ( NHMUK) . GoogleMaps Non type material (61♀, CNC, MZLU, MZUCR, NHMUK): GoogleMaps 2♀ COSTA RICA, Alajuela, Parque Nacional Arenal, 10°28’N, 84°45’W, 617m, 21-28. ii.2005, C. Hansson; GoogleMaps 1♀ COSTA RICA, Cartago, Paraíso, P.N. Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte, Torre cerca de Estación, 1200m, LN560050_193800, 9.vii-12.viii.2000, D. Rubí; GoogleMaps 1♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Macizo Miravalles, Estación Cabro Muco , LN 299769_411243, 1100m, 18.iii.2003, J. Azofeifa; GoogleMaps 1♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Maritza, 10°58’N, 85°29’W, 600m, 27.i-2.ii.2001, E. Negro; GoogleMaps 7♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Santo Domingo, INBio-Parque, 8-29.ii.2000, R. Zuñiga; following from same locality as previous but collected iii.2002 (3♀), 1-12.iv.2002 (6♀), 6.x.2002 (2♀), 11-25.ii.2006 (9♀), 16.ii.2008 (5♀), 14.ii.2009 (2♀), 12.ii.2011 (4♀), 11.ii.2012 (2♀), 16.ii.2013 (2♀), 13.ii.2016 (1♀); GoogleMaps 2♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Birrí, 1300m, vi.1996 A. Gonzalez, leaf mine on limón; GoogleMaps 1♀ from same locality as previous but collected 28.viii.1999 from an unidentified microlep. leaf mine on avocado; GoogleMaps 5♀ COSTA RICA, San José, UCR Campus, ii-iii.1999, K. Nishida, Phyllocnistis sp. on Trichilia havanensis ; GoogleMaps 2♀ with same label data as previous but collected vi.2013; GoogleMaps 1♀ from same locality as previous but collected 27.ii.1990; GoogleMaps 1♀ COSTA RICA, San José, San Antonio de Escazú , 9º54’N, 84º09’W, 1700m, ix.1996, Eberhard & Hanson; GoogleMaps 1♀ COSTA RICA, San José, Zurqui de Moravia , 10º02’58’’N, 84º00’57’’W, 1600m, iv.1994, P. Hanson. GoogleMaps

NHMUK

NHMUK

CNC

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Canadian National Collection of Insects

MZLU

Sweden, Lund, Lund University

UCR

USA, California, Riverside, University of California

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

MZLU

Lund University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Galeopsomyia

Loc

Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E. 2023
2023
Loc

Galeopsomyia fausta LaSalle

LaSalle, J. & Pena, J. E. 1997: 464
1997
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