Neopomphale depilis, HANSSON & LASALLE, 2003

HANSSON, C. & LASALLE, J., 2003, Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Journal of Natural History 37 (6), pp. 697-778 : 725-726

Neopomphale depilis sp. n.

(figures 43, 59, 64)

Diagnosis

Fore wing with area below marginal vein bare (figure 64); coxae pale brown, remaining parts of legs whitish.

Female (length of body = 0.8 mm)

Colour. Scape and pedicel whitish, flagellum pale brown. Head and mesosoma dark with golden-purple tinges. Coxae pale brown, remaining parts of legs whitish. Fore wing hyaline. Gaster dark with golden-purple tinges, membranes whitish, slightly infuscate.

Head. Antenna as in figure 43. HE/MS/MO: 1.9/1.0/1.4. Frons and vertex with weak reticulation, meshes transverse. POL/OOL/POO: 17.0/7.0/1.0. Occipital margin rounded; transverse groove and median longitudinal groove distinct. WH/WT =1.1.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum slightly convex, 0.6× as long as wide, with rather strong and engraved reticulation, in anterior one-third with isodiametric meshes, posterior two-thirds with elongate meshes, with one pair of setae situated close to anterior margin. Scutellum slightly convex, 0.6× as long as wide, with rather strong and engraved reticulation, meshes isodiametric; scutellar setae situated about in the middle, ratio distances to anterior margin of scutellum/posterior margin of scutellum=1.1. Axilla advanced 0.8× its length in front of scuto-scutellar sulcus. TPS weakly curved. Fore wing speculum open below; LW/LM/HW: 1.9/1.0/1.2; postmarginal vein absent. Propodeum smooth and shiny; propodeal callus with two setae.

Metasoma. Gastral tergites smooth and shiny; MM/LG=0.9.

Material examined

H: X, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, P.N. Santa Rosa, 300 m, SE-6-C, 16 May to 6 June 1987, D. H. Janzen and I. D. Gauld (BMNH) .

Distribution Costa Rica.