Euplectrus garygibsoni 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 : 45-46

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus garygibsoni Hansson sp. n. Figures 162-165, 169-171, 424, 754

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Medrano, 1.ix.2010, R. Calero, ex Oxidercia thaumantis eating Machaerium salvadorense , sibling of wasp DHJPAR0042124, 10-SRNP-72753" (BMNH). PARATYPES: 5♀: 1♀ with same label data as holotype (INBio), 4♀ with same data as holotype, but sibling of wasp DHJPAR0041821, 10-SRNP-72754 (CNC, INBio, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face with median part dark reddish-brown, pale part reaching to level of median toruli (Fig. 163); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 162); fore femur enlarged, 2.6 × as long as wide (Fig. 162); hind tarsus laterally flattened with tarsomere 1 being the shortest (Fig. 424); petiole 1.0 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 164).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.7 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and 1st flagellomere yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 2-3 with basal ½ yellowish-brown and apical ½ dark brown, flagellomeres 4-6 dark brown (Fig. 165). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-brown. Head black and shiny, lower face with median part dark reddish-brown, pale part reaching to level of median toruli, with parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 163). Frons close to eyes with two irregular rows of setae (Fig. 169). Vertex with very weak reticulation (Fig. 170). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 170).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 162). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 12 setae. Scutellum 0.8 × as long as wide; with very weak reticulation (Fig. 171). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a deep groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 754), groove medially 0.4 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 754); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 162). Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with two complete rows of setae, three rows in some places, and margin with six setae close to marginal vein; with 22 admarginal setae, mainly in one row but with two rows in apical ⅓.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 164).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.0/1.1; POL/OOL/POO = 8.0/3.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.8; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.2/4.5/3.3; WH/WT = 0.9; PM/ST = 1.9; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.8/2.8/7.8/1.0/1.5/1.5/3.5; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on last instar larva of Oxidercia thaumantis ( Erebidae ) feeding on Machaerium salvadorense ( Fabaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).

Etymology.

This species is after Gary A. P. Gibson, in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.