Euplectrus edithae 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 : 102-103

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus edithae Schauff Figures 692-698, 703-705, 799

Euplectrus edithae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 198-200. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.

Material.

Type material: 1♀ paratype of Euplectrus edithae (BMNH). Additional material: 1♀ from Zurqui de Moravia in Costa Rica, i.e. the type locality (MIUCR); 4♀ 2♂ from COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Monteverde, no date, ex Lepidoptera (possibly Notodontidae ) on Lycopodium (BMNH, CNC, INBio, USNM); 1♀ from Alajuela, N. slope Volcan Cacao (MZLU).

Diagnosis.

Lower face completely black (Figs 693, 694); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 692); petiole 0.8 × as long as wide; gaster in female yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 695), in male with anterior ½ yellowish-brown in median ⅓ and dark brown laterally, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 696); male scape narrow and widest in apical part, 4.1 × as long as wide (Fig. 698), sensory area confined to apicoventral ½ and with same colour as remaining scape (yellowish-white).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-brown with base yellowish-white, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres pale brown (Fig. 697). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head including lower face black and shiny (Fig. 693). Frons close to eyes with three rows of setae (Fig. 703). Vertex with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle, smooth outside triangle (Fig. 704). Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 704).

Mesosoma dark brown and shiny (Fig. 692). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with nine setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth (Fig. 705). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 799), groove medially 0.3 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 799); anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 12 setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 692). Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein; with 12 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 695).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.7/1.3/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 21.0/16.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 2.3; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.8/4.6/3.3; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.2/2.6/7.6/3.2/1.4/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 0.8; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Length of body 2.0 mm. Scape narrow and widest in apical part (Fig. 698), sensory area confined to apicoventral ½ and with same colour as remaining scape (yellowish-white). Gaster in anterior ½ yellowish-brown in median ⅓ and dark brown laterally, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 696). Otherwise similar to female.

Ratio. LC/WS = 4.1.

Hosts and biology.

From a caterpillar feeding on Lycopodium ( Lycopodiaceae ) (new record).

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Puntarenas and San José Provinces).