Cabeza planiscapus, 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 : 712-713

Cabeza planiscapus sp. n.

(figures 72, 76, 83)

Diagnosis

Funicular segment 0.3× as long as clava (figure 72); female scape very strongly flattened and wide (figure 72); head very transverse, 2.2× as wide as high (figure 83); frons with a blunt transverse edge in front of anterior ocellus (figure 83); mid lobe of mesoscutum with a strong median groove (as in petiolata (figure 2)); submarginal vein with two setae (figure 76); basal two-thirds of wing membrane bare, setae in apical one-third sparsely situated; propodeum with a strong and complete median groove (as in petiolata (figure 2)); dorsellum not visible; petiole 0.5× as long as wide, with an anterodorsal shield (as in petiolata (figure 2)), dorsal surface with strong irregular sculpture; female with first gastral tergite medially extended backwards and rounded (as in petiolata (figure 2)).

Female (length of body = 1.3 mm)

Colour. Scape yellowish brown with a dark dorsal edge; pedicel yellowish brown with dorsal surface darker; flagellar segments 1–2 dark, 3–4 pale. Frons below transverse edge yellowish brown, above edge metallic bluish green. Vertex dark yellowish brown. Mesoscutum metallic bluish green with purple tinges on side lobes. Scutellum predominantly dark brown, median smooth area with metallic bluishpurple tinges. Propodeum metallic bluish green, laterally with purple tinges. Coxae and femora dark brown; fore tibia pale, mid and hind tibiae dark; tarsi pale. Fore wing hyaline with surface just below base of marginal vein strongly infuscate. Petiole yellowish brown. Gaster shiny; first tergite yellowish brown, remaining tergites dark brown.

Head. Antenna as in figure 72. HE/MS/MO: not measurable. Frons with weak small-meshed reticulation laterad to antennal scrobes, meshes transverse, surface between scrobes smooth and shiny. Vertex smooth and shiny in front of vertexal suture, behind suture with strong small-meshed reticulation and ± wrinkled. POL/ OOL/POO: 1.6/1.0/not measurable. Occipital margin rounded. WH/WT=1.4.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum smooth and shiny, with a narrow stripe of very weak and engraved reticulation where notauli usually is situated. Scutellum 0.6× as long as wide, laterally with very strong reticulation, a median triangle is smooth and shiny. Dorsellum not visible. TPS distinctly curved. Fore wing with two admarginal setae, placed on underside of marginal vein; submarginal vein with two setae; basal two-thirds of wing membrane bare, apical one-third with sparse setation; LW/LM/HW: 2.1/1.3/1.0; PM/ST =1.3. Propodeum smooth and shiny, with a complete median groove.

Metasoma. Petiole 0.5× as long as wide; dorsal surface with strong irregular sculpture. MM/LG=1.0.

Material examined H: X, Brazil: Bahia Mucari , October 1978, F. Benton (BMNH) .