Euplectrus xiomarae Schauff

Hansson, Christer, Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2015, Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, ZooKeys 485, pp. 1-236 : 97-99

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus xiomarae Schauff Figures 27, 659-661, 662-668, 798

Euplectrus xiomarae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 226-227. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 1♀ 1♂ paratypes of Euplectrus xiomarae (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 59♀ 5♂ (dried and mounted) from Guanacaste Province; caterpillar project voucher codes: 92-SRNP-4614, 92-SRNP-4642, 05-SRNP-19390, 05-SRNP-19416, 05-SRNP-19573, 07-SRNP-24233, 07-SRNP-46304, 07-SRNP-47004 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM). Additional material in alcohol with following caterpillar project voucher codes: 92-SRNP-4602, 92-SRNP-4609, 92-SRNP-4652, 93-SRNP-4384, 93-SRNP-4388, 05-SRNP-19377, 05-SRNP-19354, 05-SRNP-19351, 05-SRNP-19352, 05-SRNP-19558, 05-SRNP-19375, 05-SRNP-47274, 05-SRNP-19987, 05-SRNP-19363, 07-SRNP-24233, 07-SRNP-46365, 07-SRNP-46741, 07-SRNP-46944, 07-SRNP-46365, 07-SRNP-46944, 07-SRNP-46741, 07-SRNP-47385, 07-SRNP-15585, 07-SRNP-46712, 07-SRNP-15652, 07-SRNP-46169, 07-SRNP-15320, 07-SRNP-15327, 07-SRNP-46373, 07-SRNP-47448, 07-SRNP-46810, 07-SRNP-47104, 07-SRNP-47085, 07-SRNP-46475, 07-SRNP-46443, 07-SRNP-46074, 07-SRNP-15675, 07-SRNP-46140, 07-SRNP-15354, 07-SRNP-36651, 07-SRNP-46480, 07-SRNP-46075, 07-SRNP-46459, 07-SRNP-65671, 07-SRNP-46407, 07-SRNP-15731, 07-SRNP-46138, 07-SRNP-46031, 07-SRNP-46011, 07-SRNP-15657, 07-SRNP-46378, 07-SRNP-15661, 07-SRNP-15654, 07-SRNP-33250, 07-SRNP-15326, 07-SRNP-15735, 07-SRNP-33390, 07-SRNP-47261, 07-SRNP-47399, 07-SRNP-47390, 07-SRNP-46721, 07-SRNP-15736, 07-SRNP-46555, 07-SRNP-15819, 07-SRNP-46612, 07-SRNP-24257, 07-SRNP-47216, 07-SRNP-34433.

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli (Figs 663, 664); fore and mid legs yellowish-brown, hind leg with coxa dark brown, femur dark brown with basal ⅓ yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown (Fig. 662); petiole 1.0 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 665) or white (male, Fig. 666) with black lateral margins, posterior ½ black; male scape slightly expanded, widest in the middle, 3.7 × as long as wide (Fig. 668).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.1 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 1-2 pale brown, 3-6 dark brown (Fig. 667). Mandibles yellowish-white, palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of middle of toruli (Fig. 663). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 659). Vertex with very weak reticulation, smooth lateral to posterior ocelli (Fig. 660). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 660).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 662). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with seven setae. Scutellum 0.9 × as long as wide; with weak reticulation (Fig. 661). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 798), groove medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 798); anteromedially with a triangular cup; propodeal callus with 11 setae. Legs (Fig. 662): fore and mid legs yellowish-brown, hind leg with coxa dark brown, femur dark brown with basal ⅓ yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with two complete rows of setae, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein; with 17 admarginal setae mainly in one row, in apical ⅓ in two rows.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with black lateral margins, posterior ½ black (Fig. 665).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.7/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 8.2/6.2/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.5; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/3.0/5.1/3.8; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.8; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.2/6.7/2.4/1.7/1.0/1.7; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.1.

Male. Length of body 1.8 mm. Scape yellowish-white, slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 668); sensory pores confined to apicoventral ½. Similar to female except shorter gaster that has pale parts white (Fig. 666).

Ratios. LC/WS = 3.7; MM/LG = 1.3.

Hosts and biology.

Hemiceras and Rosema spp. ( Notodontidae ) feeding on Inga spp. ( Fabaceae ): Hemiceras clarki feeding on Inga vera , Hemiceras corema feeding on Inga oerstediana , Hemiceras nigrescens feeding on Inga punctata , Hemiceras sabis feeding on Inga oerstediana , Hemiceras vecina feeding on Inga sapindoides , Hemiceras zula feeding on Inga densiflora and Inga oerstediana , Hemiceras Janzen13 feeding on Inga vera , Rosema attenuata feeding on Inga punctata , Rosema thestiaDHJ02 feeding on Inga oerstediana .

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) ( Schauff and Janzen 2001).