Galeopsomyia loboi Hansson, 2023

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, EULOPHIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5: The genus Galeopsomyia Girault, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 130-131

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8372024

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11175596

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E18D93BE-008F-425A-8811-9391E57D41DC

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:E18D93BE-008F-425A-8811-9391E57D41DC

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scientific name

Galeopsomyia loboi Hansson
status

sp.nov.

Galeopsomyia loboi Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 146, 147 View Figs 144–147 , 811 View Figs 808–817 , 886 View Figs 885–896 )

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava ( Fig. 811 View Figs 808–817 ); genal carina present; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 146 View Figs 144–147 ) with strong reticulation, with elongate meshes in median part and a weak median groove; hind coxa with a weak carina along posterior margin; petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part; gaster ( Fig. 146 View Figs 144–147 ) 2.1× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt 1 with a short rectangular incision.

Female holotype: length of body 1.8mm (paratype 1.5mm).

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel brown, flagellum dark brown. Head golden-green with blue tinges. scrobes black, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden-green with blue tinges. Legs with fore and mid coxae black, hind coxa metallic bluish-green; trochanters pale brown; femora black with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1 golden-green, Gt 2-4 black with metallic purple tinges, Gt 5-7 metallic bluish-green; gonoplac black.

Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons with strong reticulation, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without a median groove, with seven setae in ±one row close to notauli. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, with a weak median groove; submedian grooves weak, running parallel with and close to lateral margins of mesoscutellum. Dorsellum with strong sculpture. Propodeum with triangular median carina, concave; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind coxa with a weak carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster ovate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a short rectangular incision, with weak reticulation and shiny, remaining tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 21; head length, frontal view 35; POL 11; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 3; head width 44; mouth width 14; malar space 12.5; eye length 19; scape length 14; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 34; pedicel length 6; pedicel width, dorsal view 3.5; F1 length 4.5; F1 width 3.5; F2 length 4.5; F2 width 4; F3 length 4.5; F3 width 4; clava length 12; clava width 5.2; C3 length 5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 55; mesosoma width 38; midlobe of mesoscutum length 21; mesoscutellum length 21; mesoscutellum width 21; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 11; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 13; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4; dorsellum length 2; propodeum length 8; costal cell length 30; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 22; stigmal vein length 8; gaster length 73; gaster width 35; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 22; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 7; Gt

7 width (measured at base) 11; longest cercal seta length 9; shortest cercal seta length 5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Reared from fruit galls on Cissus verticillata ( Vitaceae ), from which Cecidomyiidae also emerged.

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, San José, San Pedro de Montes de Oca , 1100m, x.1997, ex fruit of Cissus verticillatus, P. Hanson ( NHMUK) . Paratype: 1♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Parque Nacional Santa Rosa , 300m, SE-6-C, 7-28.xii.1985, D.H. Janzen & I.D. Gauld ( NHMUK) .

Etymology. Named in honour of Jorge Lobo, professor in the School of Biology, University of Costa Rica, specialist in population genetics of plants and bees.

NHMUK

NHMUK

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Galeopsomyia

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