Euplectrus johnlasallei Hansson

Hansson, Christer, Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2015, Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 485, pp. 1-236 : 58-59

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus johnlasallei Hansson sp. n. Figures 31, 376-382, 387-389, 766

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Colocho, 21.ii.2007, C. Moraga, ex Sericochroa Janzen01 eating Vochysia guatemalensis , sibling of wasp DHJPAR0028927, 07-SRNP-31411" (BMNH). PARATYPES: 15♀ 2♂ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli (Figs 377, 378); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 376); propodeum with a wide median carina (Fig. 766); petiole 1.0 × as long as wide; gaster dark brown, anterior ½ with a large yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 379) or white (male, Fig. 380) spot; male antenna with scape expanded and widest slightly above the middle, 2.2 × as long as wide, narrow at base and apex (Fig. 382), sensory pores scattered all over outer lateral surface.

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.2 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, 2 dark brown dorsally and yellowish-brown ventrally, 3-6 dark brown (Fig. 381). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli, parts outside level of lateral margin of toruli and eyes black (Fig. 377). Frons close to eyes with one sparse row of setae (Fig. 387). Vertex smooth (Fig. 388). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 388).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 376). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with eight setae. Scutellum 0.9 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 389). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a groove, medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum (Fig. 766). Propodeum smooth (Fig. 766); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 376). Fore wing: costal cell with two irregular rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 17 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster in anterior ½ with a yellowish-brown spot and with lateral margins dark brown, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 379).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.9/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 4.9/3.6/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.7; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/3.0/5.2/4.0; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.5; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.9/3.1/6.9/2.6/1.6/1.0/1.4; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.1.

Male. Length of body 2.0 mm. Scape white, expanded and widest slightly above the middle (Figs 382), narrow at base and apex, sensory pores scattered all over outer lateral surface. Otherwise similar to female.

Ratio. LC/WS = 2.2.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on third instar larva of Sericochroa Janzen01 ( Notodontidae ) feeding on Vochysia guatemalensis ( Vochysiaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).

Etymology.

This species is named after John La Salle, in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.