Euplectrus anae 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 : 85-86

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus anae Schauff Figures 559-565, 569-571, 787

Euplectrus anae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 193-194. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 3♀ 2♂ paratypes of Euplectrus anae (USNM). Additional material: 4♀ from same rearing series (voucher 92-SRNP-747) as types (BMNH).

Diagnosis.

Lower face yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 560) or white (male, Fig. 561), pale area reaching slightly outside of outer lateral margin of toruli; legs yellowish-white with hind coxae pale yellowish-brown (Fig. 559); petiole 0.7 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ⅔ yellowish-white (female, Fig. 562) or white (male, Fig. 563) with dark brown lateral margins, and with posterior ⅓ pale brown (female) or dark brown (male).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white with apex yellowish-brown, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum yellowish-brown ventrally and pale brown dorsally (Fig. 564). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny with area lateral to ocellar triangle dark reddish-brown, lower face yellowish-brown, pale area reaches slightly outside of outer lateral margin of toruli (Fig. 560). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae, row partially double in upper ½ (Fig. 569). Vertex smooth with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle (Fig. 570). Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 570).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 559). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with ten setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth (Fig. 571). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a wide groove, medially 0.5 × as long as length of dorsellum (Fig. 787). Propodeum smooth (Fig. 787); anteromedially with a triangular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with six setae. Legs yellowish-white with hind coxae pale yellowish-brown (Fig. 559). Fore wing: submarginal vein with six setae; costal cell on ventral surface predominantly with two rows of setae, apically with a single row, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 14 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins and with posterior ⅓ pale brown (Fig. 562).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.3/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 9.0/4.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.0; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.2/4.0/3.0; WH/WT = 1.0; PM/ST = 1.7; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.4/2.6/7.0/2.6/1.6/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 0.9.

Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest apically, sensory pores confined to anteroventral ¾, sensory area pale brown (Fig. 565). Otherwise similar to female except pale area on lower face white (Fig. 561), gaster with anterior ⅔ white with dark brown lateral margins and posterior ⅓ dark brown (Fig. 563), and shorter.

Ratios. LC/WS = 2.8; MM/LG = 1.3.

Hosts and biology.

Sphacelodes vulneraria ( Geometridae ) feeding on an unknown plant ( Schauff and Janzen 2001).

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) ( Schauff and Janzen 2001).