Galeopsomyia larshuggerti 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 : 127-128

Galeopsomyia larshuggerti Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 142, 143 , 1024)

Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid (Fig. 1024); genal carina absent; mouth opening very wide, 1.5× malar space (Fig. 1024); mesoscutellum ( Fig. 142 ) with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves indistinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin; gaster ( Fig. 142 ) 2.4× as long as wide, Gt 2 0.21× as long as Gt 4.

Female holotype: length of body 1.6mm.

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum pale brown. Head with frons dark brown with metallic bluish-purple tinges, clypeus yellowish-brown, antennal scrobes dark brown; vertex dark brown. Thoracic dorsum dark brown with metallic tinges. Legs with coxae dark brown; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-white; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 pale brown. Petiole dark brown. Gaster dark brown; gonoplac dark brown.

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 weak reticulation outside ocellar triangle, inside ocellar triangle with strong reticulation.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without a median groove, with seven scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves indistinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; with median groove in anterior two-thirds; anterior pair of setae in median part of mesoscutellum. Dorsellum with strong sculpture. Propodeal callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with three setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below and towards base of wing; costal setal row broken.

Petiole transverse. Gaster elongate; tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 16; head length, frontal view 30; POL 9.5; OOL 4.5; lateral ocellus diameter 3.5; head width 38.5; mouth width 15.5; malar space 10.5; eye length 17.5; scape length 13.5; scape width 3.3; pedicel+flagellum length 33; pedicel length 5.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3; F1 length 5; F1 width 3.5; F2 length 4; F2 width 4; F3 length 4; F3 width 4.2; clava length 12; clava width 5; C3 length 5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 46; mesosoma width 36; midlobe of mesoscutum length 17; mesoscutellum length 18.5; mesoscutellum width 17.5; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part nm; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) nm; dorsellum length 2; propodeum length 5; costal cell length 27; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 18; stigmal vein length 7; gaster length 68; gaster width 28; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 3; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 14.5; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 9; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 11; longest cercal seta length nm; shortest cercal seta length nm.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Peru.

Material examined. Holotype ♀ PERU, Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, 2.i.1984, Lars Huggert ( MZLU).

Etymology. Named in honour of Lars Huggert, collector of material from Ecuador and Peru..

Remarks. The holotype specimen is bleached by light.

Figures

Figs 140–143. Galeopsomyia lapra, holotype ♀ – (140) habitus dorsal view; (141) habitus lateral view. Galeopsomyia larshuggerti, holotype ♀ – (142) habitus dorsal view; (143) habitus lateral view.