Euplectrus corriemoreauae Hansson

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 : 35-36

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus corriemoreauae Hansson sp. n. Figures 206-212, 217-219, 747

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Alajuela, ACG, Sector Rincón Rain Forest, Palomo, 18.vii.2013, K. Aragón, ex same as Noctuidae 11-SRNP-33495 eating Rhipidocladum racemiflorum , sibling of wasp DHJPAR0053131, 13-SRNP-68860" (BMNH). Paratypes: 4♀ 1♂ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, CNC, INBio, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face with median part dark yellowish-brown reaching to level of middle of toruli (Figs 207, 208); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 206); petiole 0.9 × as long as wide; female gaster yellowish-white in anterior ½, yellowish-brown in posterior ½, lateral margins dark brown (Fig. 209); male scape slightly enlarged (Fig. 212), widest medially, 3.0 × as long as wide, sensory area brown and reaching along ventral margin.

Description.

Female. Length of body 1.9 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white with apical ⅓yellowish-brown, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum dark brown with ventral part pale brown (Fig. 211). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face with median part dark yellowish-brown reaching to level of middle of toruli (Fig. 207). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 217). Vertex smooth and shiny (Fig. 218). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 218).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 206). Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with very weak reticulation (Fig. 219). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a deep groove (Fig. 747), groove medially 0.4 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth and shiny (Fig. 747); anteromedially with a semicircular cup that is strongly raised in posterior part; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 206). Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae.

Gaster yellowish-white in anterior ½, yellowish-brown in posterior ½, lateral margins dark brown (Fig. 209).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.0/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 4.5/2.3/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.4; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/3.0/5.2/3.8; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.7/2.0/6.3/2.2/1.3/1.0/1.8; LP/WP = 0.9-1.0; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Length of body 1.7 mm. Scape slightly enlarged, widest medially, with sensory pores along entire ventral margin, sensory area brown (Fig. 212). Similar to female except gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 210).

Ratios. LC/WS = 3.0, LP/WP = 1.0.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on penultimate instar larva of noctuid 11-SRNP-33495 ( Noctuidae ) feeding on Rhipidocladum racemiflorum ( Poaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Alajuela Province).

Etymology.

This species is named after Corrie S. Moreau, in recognition of her contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.