Euplectrus pammitchellae 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 : 69-70

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus pammitchellae Hansson sp. n. Figures 298-301, 305-307, 775

Material.

Holotype a female labeled "COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Leonel, 3.i.2010, R. Calero, ex Bagisara pacifica eating Sida glomerata , sibling of wasp DHJPAR0038580, 10-SRNP-70029" (BMNH). PARATYPES: 4♀ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, INBio).

Diagnosis.

Lower face with median part yellowish-brown medially and yellowish-white laterally, pale area reaching slightly outside of level of lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 299); fore coxa yellowish-white, remaining parts of fore leg and entire mid and hind legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 298); dorsellum with a wide groove along anterior margin, groove is medially 0.5 × as long as length of dorsellum (Fig. 775); petiole 0.7 × as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown with tergites 5-6 reddish-brown (Fig. 300).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.3 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 1-4 dark brown with ventral part yellowish-brown, 5-6 dark brown (Fig. 301). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face with median part yellowish-brown medially and yellowish-white laterally, pale area reaching slightly outside of level of lateral margins of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 299). Frons close to eyes with two irregular rows of setae (Fig. 305). Vertex smooth (Fig. 306). Occipital margin with a weak carina (Fig. 306).

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 298). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 17 setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide, with very weak reticulation (Fig. 307). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a wide groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 775), groove medially 0.5 × as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 775); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with ten setae. Legs (Fig. 298): fore coxa yellowish-white, remaining parts of fore leg and entire mid and hind legs yellowish-brown. Fore wing: submarginal vein with four setae; costal cell with two irregular and sparse rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown with tergites 5-6 reddish-brown (Fig. 300).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.0/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 5.9/3.1/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.4/4.5/3.5; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.6; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.3/2.0/6.0/1.6/1.2/1.0/2.0; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 1.0.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Feeding on penultimate instar larva of Bagisara pacifica ( Noctuidae ) feeding on Sida glomerata ( Malvaceae ), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).

Etymology.

This species is named after Pamela A. Mitchell, in recognition of her contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.