Euplectrus valverdei Schauff

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 : 115-116

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus valverdei Schauff Figures 720-726, 730-732, 801

Euplectrus valverdei Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 220-224. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 1♀ 1♂ paratypes (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 2♀ from Alajuela Province in malaise traps (INBio).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially dark reddish-brown to black and not clearly delimited from surrounding black areas (Fig. 721); mandibles dark brown; female with fore and midlegs with coxae yellowish-white, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown; hind coxa pale brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ pale brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown (Fig. 720), male legs as in female but with hind coxa yellowish-brown; petiole 0.8 × as long as wide; female gaster dark brown with a large T-shaped yellowish-white spot in anterior ½ and with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 723), male gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown lateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 724); male scape strongly expanded and widest close to base (Fig. 726), 1.4 × as long as wide, sensory pores cover entire inner lateral surface.

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.6 mm. Antenna with scape white with apex yellowish-white, pedicel, flagellomere 1 and base of 2 yellowish-brown, apical part of flagellomere 2 and entire 3-6 dark brown (Fig. 725). Mandibles dark brown, palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face below toruli very dark reddish-brown to black and not clearly delimited from surrounding black areas (Fig. 721). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 730). Vertex smooth (Fig. 731). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 731).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 720). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 10 setae. Scutellum 1.2 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 731). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove (Fig. 801), medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 801); anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 11 setae. Legs (Fig. 720): fore and mid legs with coxae yellowish-white, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown; hind coxa pale brown, femur with basal ½ yellowish-white and apical ½ pale brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with one row of setae, and margin with five setae close to marginal vein; with 12 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster dark brown with a large T-shaped yellowish-white spot in anterior ½ and with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 723).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.7/1.1/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 6.9/4.6/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.5; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.8/4.7/3.2; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.5; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.5/2.4/7.5/2.9/1.7/1.0/1.7; LP/WP = 0.8; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Length of body 1.8 mm. Scape strongly expanded and widest close to base, sensory pores cover entire inner lateral surface (Fig. 726). Otherwise similar to female except scape yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 1-4 yellowish-white, 5-6 pale brown (Fig. 726); hind coxa yellowish-brown; gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown lateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 724).

Ratios. LC/WS = 1.4; MM/LG = 1.0.

Hosts and biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Alajuela and San José Provinces).