Galeopsomyia methea 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 : 387-388

Galeopsomyia methea Hansson sp.nov.

( Figs 502, 503 , 838 , 912 )

Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid ( Fig. 838 ); genal carina strong, reaching above level of lower margin of eyes; mesoscutellum ( Fig. 502 ) with strong wrinkled sculpture, submedian grooves with outer margin missing, diverging slightly towards posterior part, with a strong median groove in anterior half; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum ( Fig. 502 ) with a strong narrow median carina, with strong reticulation, callus with four setae; petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part; gaster ( Fig. 502 ) 2.0× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with an edge shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 24 ), tergites with weak reticulation.

Female holotype: length of body 2.2mm.

Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel brown, flagellum dark brown. Face below level of toruli and scrobes golden-green, frons and vertex metallic bluish-green, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden-green. Legs with fore and hind coxae metallic bluish-green, mid coxa black with metallic tinges; trochanters dark brown; femora dark brown with metallic bluish-green tinges and with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1 golden-green, Gt2-6 metallic bluish-green and golden-purple, Gt7 dark brown; gonoplac black.

Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle. Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe, midlobe rugose close to notauli; with a median groove in posterior half, with 14 scattered setae on rugose parts. Mesoscutellum with strong wrinkled sculpture; submedian grooves with outer margin missing, diverging slightly towards posterior part; with a strong median groove in anterior half; with ten setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with weak sculpture, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong narrow median carina that expands in anterior and posterior parts; with strong reticulation; callus with four setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with 6&7 setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row broken.

Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster ovate-elongate; medio-basal Gt1 with an edge shaped like an inverted U; tergites with weak reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 24; head length, frontal view 39; POL 10; OOL 5.5; lateral ocellus diameter 4.5; head width 54; mouth width nm; malar space 13; eye length 23.5; scape length 17; scape width 4.2; pedicel+flagellum length 53; pedicel length 7; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7.5; F1 width 4.5; F2 length 8.5; F2 width 5; F3 length 8.5; F3 width 5; clava length 18.5; clava width 5.5; C3 length 6; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 66; mesosoma width 48; midlobe of mesoscutum length 26.5; mesoscutellum length 24; mesoscutellum width 24; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 9; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 10.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4.5; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 11; costal cell length 36; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2.5; marginal vein length 27; stigmal vein length 9; gaster length 88; gaster width 44; Gt2 length (measured medially) 11; Gt4 length (measured medially) 16; Gt7 length (measured medially) 10; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 16; longest cercal seta length 12; shortest cercal seta length 5.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Ecuador.

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ECUADOR, Napo, Lumbaqui, 10-11.iii.1983, Lars Huggert ( MZLU).

Figures

Figs 500–503. Galeopsomyia mesana, holotype ♀ – (500) habitus dorsal view; (501) habitus lateral view. Galeopsomyia methea, holotype ♀ – (502) habitus dorsal view; (503) habitus lateral view.

Figs 834–840. Head incl. antennae, lateral view ♀ – (834) Galeopsomyia melasoma; (835) G. mora; (836) G. nana; (837) G. marbis; (838) G. methea; (839) G. milagra; (840) G. miliaris.

Figs 907–914. Mesoscutellum dorsal view, holotype ♀ – (907) Galeopsomyia casacocaensis; (908) G. alas; (909) G. mynta; (910) G. corista; (911) G. ladrona; (912) G. methea; (913) G. amphis; (914) G. baldosa.

Figs 23–28. Galeopsomyia spp., ♀, first gastral tergite (Gt1) dorsal view – (23) G. epidius; (24) G. osaensis; (25) G. fausta; (26) G. blakeae; (27) G. illydris; (28) G.devania.