Neopomphale transversa, 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 : 739-740

Neopomphale transversa sp. n.

(figures 58, 61)

Diagnosis

Head transverse (figure 58), 0.7× as high as wide, malar space slanting steeply inwards towards mouth opening.

Female (length of body = 0.6 mm)

Colour. Scape and pedicel yellowish brown, flagellum infuscate. Head and mesosoma dark with golden tinges, propodeum slightly paler than scutellum. Fore coxa dark brown, mid and hind coxae yellowish brown; femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish brown. Fore wing with a median infuscate band. Gaster dark with golden tinges, membranes yellowish brown.

Head. Antenna as in rubescens (figure 35). HE/MS/MO: 2.5/1.0/1.6. Frons and vertex with weak reticulation, meshes transverse. Posterior ocelli situated at occipital margin; POL/OOL: 2.4/1.0. Occipital margin rounded; transverse groove and median longitudinal groove distinct. WH/WT=1.1.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum flattened, 0.5× as long as wide, with weak and engraved reticulation, in anterior one-third with isodiametric meshes, posterior twothirds with elongate meshes, with one pair of setae situated close to anterior margin. Scutellum flattened, 0.6× as long as wide, with weak and engraved reticulation, partly smooth, meshes elongate; scutellar setae situated about in the middle, ratio distances to anterior margin of scutellum/posterior margin of scutellum=1.2. Axilla advanced to its entire length in front of scuto-scutellar sulcus. TPS weakly curved. Fore wing speculum closed below; LW/LM/HW: 2.1/1.0/1.2; postmarginal vein absent. Propodeum smooth and shiny; propodeal callus with two setae.

Metasoma. Gastral tergites smooth and shiny; MM/LG=1.0.

Material examined

H: X, Costa Rica: Limón, Hitoy-Cerere, BR HQ, 100 m, 14–18 January 1991, J. S. Noyes (BMNH) .

P: 1 X with same label data as holotype (INBio).

Distribution Costa Rica.