Galeopsomyia bicolor 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 : 248-250

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11175750

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399D61F-57AA-FF02-FE0F-FA29FB91508B

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scientific name

Galeopsomyia bicolor Hansson
status

sp.nov.

Galeopsomyia bicolor Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 304, 305 View Figs 304–307 , 753 View Figs 751–759 , 963 View Figs 962–964 )

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2 ( Fig. 753 View Figs 751–759 ); with a short genal carina close to mouth opening; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum ( Fig. 304 View Figs 304–307 ) with distinctly different colours; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 304 View Figs 304–307 ) 0.9× as long as wide and flattened, submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part, with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; dorsellum with median carina; median propodeum ( Fig. 304 View Figs 304–307 ) with strong irregular carinae and anterolaterally with strong reticulation without carinae, callus with two setae; petiole very short, just a narrow band; gaster ( Fig. 304 View Figs 304–307 ) ovate, 1.6× as long as wide, tergites with strong reticulation.

Female holotype: length of body 1.9mm (paratypes 1.5mm).

Scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum brown. Head with frons and vertex metallic bluish-green, clypeus dark brown, antennal scrobes black. Mesoscutum golden-purple; mesoscutellum and propodeum golden-green. Legs with fore coxa dark brown with metallic tinges, mid coxa brown, hind coxa black with metallic tinges and with apex yellowish-brown; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora yellowish-brown with base brownish; tibiae yellowish-white; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 yellowish-brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1-2 metallic blue, remaining tergites golden-purple; gonoplac brown with ventral margin black.

Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with a short genal carina close to mouth opening. Vertex with weak reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle; with a carina between posterior ocelli in posterior part.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a complete median groove, with ten scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; with 14 setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with weak reticulation, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong median carina that expands anteriorly and posteriorly; medially with strong irregular carinae and anterolaterally with strong reticulation without carinae; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole very short. Gaster ovate; tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 20.5; head length, frontal view 37; POL 9; OOL 6.5; lateral ocellus diameter 4.5; head width 51; mouth width 16.5; malar space 11; eye length 22.5; scape length 18; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 54; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 10; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 8; F3 width 4.5; clava length 18; clava width 6; C3 length 5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 63; mesosoma width 47; midlobe of mesoscutum length 22.5; mesoscutellum length 24.5; mesoscutellum width 26; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 8; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 11.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 5.5; dorsellum length 3.5; propodeum length 10.5; costal cell length 32; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2.2; marginal vein length 24; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 64; gaster width 41; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 7; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 12; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 5; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 14; longest cercal seta length 13; shortest cercal seta length 6.

Male. Length of body of body 1.5mm.

Antennal scape ( Fig. 963 View Figs 962–964 ) with plaque dark brown and situated close to, just below, apex; dorso-basal whorls of long setae present on F1–F4 and on C1, and with a ventro-basal whorl of long setae on C1. Gaster long ovate. Otherwise as in female.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 17; head length, frontal view 30; head width 41; mouth width 12; malar space 8.5; eye length 18; scape length 14; scape width 3.5; plaque length 3.5; pedicel length 5; pedicel+flagellum length 65; F1 length 4.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 6.5; F2 width 4; F3 length 9.5; F3 width 4; F4 length 9.5; F4 width 3.5; clava length 29; clava width 3.2; mesosoma length 51; mesosoma width 39; gaster length 45; gaster width 31; longest subbasal seta on F1, length 36.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Volcán Cacao, Cerro Pedregal , 1000m, ii-iv.1989, I.D. Gauld ( NHMUK) . Paratypes (3♀ 1♂, MZLU, NHMUK) : 1♀ 1♂ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Maritza , 10°58’N, 85°29’W, 700m, 21.ii.2005, J.S. Noyes GoogleMaps ; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ( ACG) , “no date”; 1♀ COSTA RICA, San José, Ciudad Colón , Hacienda El Rodeo , 16.ii.1991, J.S. Noyes .

Etymology. Name referring to different colours of mesoscutum and mesoscutellum.

NHMUK

NHMUK

MZLU

Sweden, Lund, Lund University

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

MZLU

Lund University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Galeopsomyia

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