Gahaniella, Timberlake, 1926

Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 2 (11), pp. 1-921 : 549

Key to Costa Rican species of Gahaniella

(Females)

1. Fore coxa white, fore femur white; reticulate sculpture on mesoscutum very coarse, scutellum (Fig. 1389) with coarse polygonally reticulate to striate-reticulate sculpture ...................................................................... chaldenes sp.nov. (p. 549)

- Fore coxa brown, fore femur mostly brown; reticulate sculpture on mesoscutum shallow, scutellum with polygonally reticulate to striate sculpture ................................... 2

2. Costal cell of forewing (Fig. 1397) dorsally with at least two lines of setae in apical half; linea calva more or less closed posteriorly ......... californica Timberlake (p. 551)

- Costal cell of fore wing (Fig. 1401) dorsally with only submarginal line of setae in apical half; linea calva open posteriorly .......................... saissetiae Timberlake (p. 552)