Galeopsomyia macaxeira Perioto, 2011

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 : 199

Galeopsomyia macaxeira Perioto , Costa & Lara

( Figs 684-688 )

Galeopsomyia macaxeira Perioto, Costa & Lara 2011:163-165 . Holotype ♀ (MZSP), examined through images; Brazil.

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2 ( Fig. 684 ); genal carina present; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 685 ) with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, with a indistinct median groove in anterior two-thirds, submedian grooves with outer margin indistinct, diverging slightly towards posterior part; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum ( Fig. 686 ) with strong reticulation, callus with four setae; fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; petiole very short, just a narrow band; gaster ( Fig. 688 ) 3.3× as long as wide, tergites with strong reticulation, medio-basal Gt 1 with short longitudinal carinae pointing backwards from transverse sharp edge.

Description. See Perioto et al. (2011).

Hosts. Reared from leaf galls on cassava ( Manihot esculenta , Euphorbiaceae ), possibly parasitizing Iatrophobia brasiliensis (Rübsaamen) ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ; cited as Jatrophobia brasiliensis ) ( Perioto et al. 2011).

Distribution. Brazil ( Perioto et al. 2011).

Material examined.

No material has been examined, but images of female holotype and one female paratype of G. macaxeira have been examined.

Comments. The images in the original description of G. macaxeira (figs 1–8 in Perioto et al. 2011) are not of this species. Instead the images are possibly of G. glypta , described in the same paper as G. macaxeira . However, G. glypta does not belong in Galeopsomyia . See comment under G. glypta . Thus G. macaxeira has never been imaged.

Figures

Figs 684–688. Galeopsomyia macaxeira Perioto, Costa & Lara, ♀ – (684) head frontal view, ht; (685) mesosoma and head dorsal view, ht; (686) propodeum dorsal view, pt; (687) gaster lateral view, pt; (688) gaster dorsal view, pt.