Euplectrus donquickei 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 : 41-42

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus donquickei Hansson sp. n. Figures 240-246, 251-253, 752

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Cacao, Quebrada Otilio, 29.vii.2005, M. Pereira, ex Hemicephalis alesaDHJ01 eating Varronia inermis , sibling of wasp DHJPAR0028814, 05-SRNP-46906" (BMNH). PARATYPES: 7♀ 1♂ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, INBio, MZLU, USNM).

Diagnosis.

Head dark reddish-brown with lower face medially white with median part yellowish-white (female, Fig. 241) or completely white (male, Fig. 242), pale area reaching outside level of outer margins of toruli; scutellum with a small hump posteromedially (Fig. 253); legs yellowish-white with hind coxa and hind femur yellowish-brown (Fig. 240); petiole 0.8 × as long as wide; female gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown and posterior ½ pale brown with a dark brown spot anteromedially, entire gaster with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 243), male gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown anterolateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 244); male antenna with scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, 3.2 × as long as wide (Fig. 246), and with sensory area pale brown.

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1-2 yellowish-white, flagellomeres 3-4 pale brown, 5-6 dark brown (Fig. 245). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head dark reddish-brown and shiny, lower face medially white with median part yellowish-white, pale area reaching outside level of outer margin of toruli, and parts between pale area and eyes dark reddish-brown (Fig. 241). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 251). Vertex with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle, smooth outside (Fig. 252). Occipital margin with a carina (Fig. 252).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 240). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 11 setae. Scutellum convex, with a small hump posteromedially and with a weak groove anteromedially (Fig. 253); 0.9 × as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation. Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided into two by a median longitudinal carina (Fig. 752), groove medially 0.4 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 752); anteromedially with a transverse triangular cup; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs yellowish-white with hind coxa and hind femur yellowish-brown (Fig. 240). Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein; with 20 admarginal setae, in basal ⅓ in two rows and in apical ⅔ in one row.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown and posterior ½ pale brown with a dark brown spot anteromedially, entire gaster with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 243).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.8/1.0/1.1; POL/OOL/POO = 5.1/3.1/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.3; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.4/4.5/3.6; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.1/2.2/7.1/2.7/1.7/1.0/1.7; LP/WP = 0.8; MM/LG = 1.1.

Male. Length of body 2.2 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 246), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ⅔. Otherwise similar to female except pale part of lower face completely white (Fig. 242), gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown anterolateral margins and posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 244).

Ratios. LC/WS = 3.2.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on last instar larva of Hemicephalis alesaDHJ01 ( Noctuidae ) feeding on Varronia inermis ( Boraginaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).

Etymology.

This species is named after Don L. J. Quicke, in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.