Monterrondo aphelosoma, 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 : 717

Monterrondo aphelosoma sp. n.

(figures 3, 90, 91)

Female (length of body =1.0 mm).

Colour. Antenna dark brown. Frons golden-green with purple tinges. Vertex golden-green. Side lobes of mesoscutum golden-green; mid lobe of mesoscutum, scutellum and propodeum black with purple tinges. Coxae, femora and tibiae dark and metallic, fore tibia with a whitish strip along posterior surface; fore tarsus dark brown, mid and hind tarsi with tarsal segments 1–3 yellowish white, segment 4 dark brown. Fore wing infuscate below marginal vein. Gaster dark brown with golden-purple tinges; membranes whitish.

Head. Antenna as in figure 91. HE/MS/MO: 2.2/1.0/1.3. Frons shiny, smooth close to scrobes, with very weak engraved reticulation on remaining parts. Vertex with very weak engraved reticulation. POL/OOL/POO: 20.0/4.3/1.0. Occipital margin rounded. WH/WT=0.9.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide, with very weak engraved reticulation, shiny. Scutellum 0.8× as long as wide, with very weak and engraved reticulation; with two pair of scutellar setae, ratio distances to anterior margin of scutellum/ posterior margin of scutellum: anterior pair=1.0, posterior pair =4.2. LW/LM/HW: 2.6/1.0/1.4.

Metasoma. Gastral tergites smooth and shiny; MM/LG=1.1.

Material examined

H: X, Colombia: Departamento de Cundinamarca, Monterrondo, Cercanias Embalse de Chuza , paramo de Chingaza, 4°36∞N, 73°44∞W, 3100 m, 14 August 1991, L. Rosselli and G. Stiles (IAvH) .

Distribution Colombia.