Galeopsomyia moradis Hansson, 2023

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5 The genus Galeopsomyia Girault by Christer Hansson * & Paul E. Hanson **, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 397-398

Galeopsomyia moradis Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 518, 519 , 843 )

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a distinct constriction between C1 and C2 ( Fig. 843 ); clypeus black; genal carina present; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 518 ) with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves distinct, straight, parallel and wide apart; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum ( Fig. 518 ) with strong reticulation, median carina short and ±triangular, and mainly concave, callus with two setae; gaster ( Fig. 518 ) 1.9× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a carina shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 26 ), tergites with strong reticulation.

Female holotype: length of body 1.9mm (paratypes 1.7–2.4mm).

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons with golden-green and metallic blue tinges, antennal scrobes and clypeus black; vertex black with metallic bluish tinges. Mesosoma black with golden-green tinges. Legs with coxae black with metallic tinges; trochanters pale brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown, hind femur with metallic tinges on dark parts; tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown to yellowish-white, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1 metallic greenish-blue, Gt2-6 black with metallic tinges, Gt

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black; gonoplac black.

Antenna with a distinct constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong 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 weak median groove in posterior half, with ten scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight, parallel and wide apart; with an indistinct median groove; with eight setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong sculpture, with median carina. Propodeum with a wide, concave median carina that expands strongly towards posterior part; with strong reticulation; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with six setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole transverse, dorsal part with strong sculpture. Gaster ovate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a carina shaped like an inverted U; tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 21; head length, frontal view 34; POL 9.5; OOL 6; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 45; mouth width 14; malar space 12.5; eye length 18; scape length 16; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 50; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3.5; F1 length 7; F1 width 4; F2 length 7; F2 width 4; F3 length 6.5; F3 width 4; clava length 19; clava width 4.5; C3 length 6.5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 58; mesosoma width 41; midlobe of mesoscutum length 24.5; mesoscutellum length 22; mesoscutellum width 19; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 9; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 3.5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 8; costal cell length 32; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 31; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 77; gaster width 40; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 10; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 15; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 7.5; Gt

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width (measured at base) 12; longest cercal seta length 11; shortest cercal seta length 5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Cacao , 10º55’N, 85º30’W, 1100m, 19-20.ii.2005, J.S. Noyes ( NHMUK) . Paratypes: 7♀ with same label data as holotype ( MZLU, NHMUK) .

Figures

Figs 516–519. Galeopsomyia mora, holotype ♀ – (516) habitus dorsal view; (517) habitus lateral view. Galeopsomyia moradis, holotype ♀ – (518) habitus dorsal view; (519) habitus lateral view.

Figs 841–849. Head incl. antennae, lateral view ♀ – (841) Galeopsomyia miria; (842) G. montanis; (843) G. moradis; (844) G. myrciae; (845) G. navia; (846) G. neotropicalis; (847) G. nicoyae; (848) G. nitida; (849) G. octava.

Figs 23–28. Galeopsomyia spp., ♀, first gastral tergite (Gt1) dorsal view – (23) G. epidius; (24) G. osaensis; (25) G. fausta; (26) G. blakeae; (27) G. illydris; (28) G.devania.