Euplectrus junctus Gahan

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 : 106-107

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae

Euplectrus junctus Gahan Figures 688-691

Euplectrus junctus Gahan, 1927: 30-31. Lectotype ♀ (USNM), designated here, examined.

Material.

Type material: ♀ lectotype of Euplectrus junctus (USNM).

Diagnosis.

Lower face medially yellowish-white with median part yellowish-brown, pale area extending slightly outside of outer lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 689); legs yellowish-brown with hind coxa slightly darker (Fig. 688); fore wing submarginal vein with six setae; petiole 0.5 × as long as wide; gaster yellowish-brown, in anterior ⅔ with lateral margins dark brown, and with a darker spot in posteromedian part (Fig. 690).

Description.

Female. Length of body 2.1 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres pale brown with ventral part of flagellomeres 1-3 yellowish-brown (Fig. 691). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black with parts lateral to ocellar triangle dark reddish-brown and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-white with median part yellowish-brown, pale area extending slightly outside outer lateral margins of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 689). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae. Vertex smooth lateral to ocellar triangle, with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle. Occipital margin with a carina.

Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 688). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 12 setae. Scutellum 1.0 × as long as wide; with weak and engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth. Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with five visible setae, but some appears broken off, so probably with more than five setae. Legs yellowish-brown with hind coxa slightly darker (Fig. 688). Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with two rows of setae, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae, in one row.

Gaster yellowish-brown with margins in anterior ⅔ dark brown and with a darker spot in posteromedian part (Fig. 690).

Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.0/1.4; POL/OOL/POO = 6.0/2.8/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.4/4.3/3.3; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.6/2.2/6.2/1.8/1.0/1.2/2.2; LP/WP = 0.5; MM/LG = 1.4.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts and biology.

Isoparce cupressi ( Sphingidae ) ( Gahan 1927).

Distribution.

USA (Florida) ( Gahan 1927).

Remarks.

This species was described from three females but no primary type was selected. One of the females labeled "ALACHUA CO., FLA, Waldo, x.13-1924, 253, T.H. Hubbell", "Reared fron Isoparce cupressi", "Type No. 29451 U.S.N.M.", "Euplectrus junctus Gahan female Type", is hereby selected as lectotype.